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8. What do mission organizations do for these people?

 

         I don’t know about the general missionaries but I think that Christian mission organizations save people from destroying themselves, in contrast to the views that say they are culture-destroyers.

         There are groups of people that practice cannibalism as part of their tradition and they get into conflicts and wars because they eat other people. As the book, the Peace Child, tells the readers, tribes in Irian Jaya constantly battled against each other by targeting someone or a group of people from other tribe and luring one or them into a trap to kill and eat them.

         This, of course, is not good. It would be quite ironic and pointless in attempt to ‘protect’ a tradition that kills people, unless you are a cannibal. Thusly, I don’t see a problem with missionaries joining the ‘untouched ones’ and getting rid of the cannibalism, like Don Richardson said.

         My fellow classmate, Jin Hong Kim, said that Christianity is a profit-hungry commercialist trying to spread the Gospel everywhere, even if it is not wanted. I say that it is a profit-hungry commercialist and it is good one after all because there are many non-Christian missionaries and some of them are corrupt.

         When I was in the Midkiff Dorm, about 3 years ago, a missionary from a church visited our dorm. To be more accurate, they snuck into our dorm. The people weren’t from normal church. They were devil worshippers. Without permission they wrote in Korean saying that Jesus Christ is something (I won’t write it because it was very inappropriate) on a white board in the building. They bashed into students’ rooms without permission, commanded my friends to sit down because they were older, and they told us not to believe in Jesus Christ. When I found about the ‘missionary,’ I went to the rec room to get a pool stick. It was outrageous for the ‘missionary’ to sneak into our dorm and saying that Jesus Christ is a bad person and we should worship the devil and do whatever we want because we’re all going to die anyway, go to hell, and the whole salvation idea is fake. I threatened the missionary to leave, holding tightly on the pool stick. They did.

         I am sure that there are other missionaries with different purposes. I haven’t seen them but there might be Buddhist missionary, Islamic missionary, Gay/homosexual missionary, and many other missionaries. I don’t know what their purposes are but the people that visited our dorm a few years ago were clearly out of their mind. They were literally invading our dorm and forcing my dorm brothers to listen to their speeches. Then my fellow dorm brother reported to me. From movies, I learned that you can beat up intruders or trespassers. Also, my old friend Darin said people in Texas shoot down trespassers. Thus, I threatened them to leave or I’ll beat them up with the pool stick, which is very hard and will withstand a lot of force before breaking.

         Back to the subject, the blog question is asking what missionary organizations do to people. My answer is that Christians don’t make up all the missionary organizations and therefore the diverse type of missionaries would function to serve their purpose. In addition, I see Christian missionaries as people who help out the needy more than culture-destoryers.

         Yes, they certainly do ban things in a culture but they do it for a good cause. How can anyone blame the Christian missionaries stopping cannibalism, which causes bad, nasty diseases, population decrease, conflicts (sometimes wars), and moral depravity? I think the ones who criticize the missionaries should quit the absolute nuisance and start helping the needy. Many times I’m enraged by the critics because they can’t stop complaining over things they never do/can do, or things they are not good at.

 

 

         Oh by the way, a year after the first visit, the ‘devil worshippers’ visited us again. To welcome them, Alex Rim, Young Tae Seo, and I picked up lethal weapons. They quickly left.