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Lisabtrucking Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 09:38 AM
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Villagers furious with Christian Missionaries
http://www.notthistimegeorge.org/framer.cfm?liid=1513

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Samanthapettai, Jan 16 (ANI): Rage and fury has gripped this tsunami-hit tiny Hindu village in India's southern Tamil Nadu after a group of Christian missionaries allegedly refused them aid for not agreeing to follow their religion.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 09:39 AM
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1. Pathetic, what some who call themselves "Christians" will do
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Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 09:45 AM
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2. Missionaries Will Be Missionaries
CNNservative showed some "local" Sri Lankan (they did mention in passing he had lived in the U.S. for most his life) who was running relief supplies in a boat with a flag that said "Jesus Is God"...and spouting how blessed he was and how he was delivering both water and "Jesus" to these people. I could smell the quid pro quo a mile wide.

Missionary groups have been active in Sri Lanka's civil war for decades...playing the religious angle...the Hindus vs. the Tamils...and exploiting the war to spread their influence. Sounds like business as usual to me.
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 09:49 AM
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3. If this is true,
I hope they get robbed. And I never express sentiments like these.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 09:57 AM
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4. Christianity, like Democracy has been taken over by a very
unsavory group of opportunists, calling themselves Christians. What a cruel and ironic joke? I'm no bible scholar but I know enough about the New Testament to see that their approval of murder, torture,greed
and political criminality disqualifies them to be called Christians.
Jesus was no war monger.
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:45 AM
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8. No new takeover...
This is old time stuff. The Spanish missionaries were a lot tougher on the American Indians.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:19 PM
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16. Most definitely not new. The Inquisition lasted for over 800 yrs.
I was just referring to the current political situation that was being
so effectively manipulated by means of massive media efforts.
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CatBoreal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 10:37 AM
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5. Business as usual...
They did this in Haiti too (back when we first put Aristide in power). Told people that they had to convert from Vodoo to Christianity, forgetting of course that Vodoo is actually an amalgam of old African beliefs and Catholicism.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 10:43 AM
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7. Yes, but Voodoo coexists with Catholicism....
Not the Fundamentalist beliefs of the missionaries.

It's said that, during the Ireland's Great Famine, many "soup kitchens' run by Protestants demanded the hungry denounce their Catholic faith. This may not have been as widespread as claimed. The Quakers, for example, were famous for feeding all without demands. But a lot of ill-feeling survived.
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cags Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 10:41 AM
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6. Thats disgusting,
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:46 AM
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9. It sure is, n/t
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TWiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 11:56 AM
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10. Christians were pissed off in America
because the "Christian owned" liquor stores in Iraq were getting firebombed. They cited it as evidence of discrimination against Christians in Iraq.

This is a true story, I heard it on NPR late last summer.
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TWiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:00 PM
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11. Wait till "faith based initiaves" goes into full swing,
and social programs in America are moved fully into the hands of the Evangelical Christian Church.

It will be HELL.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:02 PM
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12. Your Christian values at work again. n/t
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:06 PM
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14. Madness Rules....TO FOOL IS TO RULE
A "Mad" Regime is in charge of the Nations Helm..... so sad and pathetic.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:03 PM
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13. its what christian missionaries do in india, in general
will give you drugs/education ...just believe in our god, and only our god :eyes:
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:17 PM
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15. Please let them know that we westerners are frequently infuriated
by them too.

Christian "charity" - there is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS a catch.
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:36 PM
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17. sadly, this comes as no surprise to me
:eyes:
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 12:49 PM
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18. I wish the villagers would just stone them.
Christians just love to push their jargon onto others.
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FizzFuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 01:22 PM
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19. Contact the Hague
Edited on Tue Jan-18-05 01:29 PM by FizzFuzz
Write to the International Criminal Court, email address in this thread , see post 13, and post 3 (13 is in reply to 3)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1157112&mesg_id=1157146&page=

On Edit: Here's what post 13 says:

The public information officer of the ICC can be reached at pio@icc-cpi.int
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