Building one more church in jungle land

[Evang.Benincasa]

Who are you referring to elder?

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

You some folks are not only ignorant but rude to boot.

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[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

I worked with Native American Indians and they resent the destruction of their culture by Missionaries.
Not everything in their culture was evil, and that is why many of them are still angry at the missionaries, for the missionaries often destroyed everything that was part of their culture.

They complained to me that instead of transforming the Native Indians culture with the Gospel, they destroyed it, because they thought that American Indians were total savages, some of them are still quite bitter about that.

The missionaries working with them were Apostolic? Where was the tribe located?

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

The missionaries working with them were Apostolic? Where was the tribe located?

No they were not Apostolic, the Tribes were in North America, they are known as The Choctaw Nation and The Navajo Nation, I have friends in those two tribes and they are grateful for the gospel but at the same time they are resentful of the missionaries methods of obliterating their culture.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

No they were not Apostolic, the Tribes were in North America, they are known as The Choctaw Nation and The Navajo Nation, I have friends in those two tribes and they are grateful for the gospel but at the same time they are resentful of the missionaries methods of obliterating their culture.

Well, missionaries from other denominations can have a plethora of differing agendas. The Indian tribe down here who have a few Christians are Seminoles who have some Baptists, and I think some Catholics.

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

You some folks are not only ignorant but rude to boot.

Yes you are right some Missionary folks were quite rude

Those folks destroyed all the ancient history writings of the natives, so they became a people without a past history.

Those folks stopped the natives from hunting, fishing and gathering food, so they lost their ability to feed themselves like they had done for centuries and many starved to death.

Those folks stopped the natives from speaking their own language so that many of their languages became extinct.

Those folks stopped the natives from playing their own music, dances and instruments, so that their descendants forgot their old songs and how to play their own instruments.

Those folks removed the natives from their ancestral homes and forcibly put them in missions and reservations.

Yes you are quite right some Missionary folks were quite rude.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

Yes you are right some Missionary folks were quite rude

Those folks destroyed all the ancient history writings of the natives, so they became a people without a past history.

Those folks stopped the natives from hunting, fishing and gathering food, so they lost their ability to feed themselves like they had done for centuries and many starved to death.

Those folks stopped the natives from speaking their own language so that many of their languages became extinct.

Those folks stopped the natives from playing their own music, dances and instruments, so that their descendants forgot their old songs and how to play their own instruments.

Those folks removed the natives from their ancestral homes and forcibly put them in missions and reservations.

Yes you are quite right some Missionary folks were quite rude.

Stopped the natives from speaking their own language is what the Roman Catholics did with the Indians in the midwest. What do you believe was the reason for the Missionaries to stop the natives from speaking their own language? Now any kind of ancient rituals would be considered religious, like witch doctors, etc, so I can see the missionary teaching the group to abandoned their old religion. Abandoning a past religion would be rule of thumb to accepting a new one?

[Sister Alvear]

Our friends have services in their own language...we made songbooks for them in their own languages....they seem to love us very much.

[Sister Alvear]

We have never tried to make the Brazilians Americans...much less the Indians....I would venture to say none that have written here know much about "raw" indians right from the jungles. Brazil has the most indians tribes of any country of the world. Only 4 tribes have a complete Bible in their language!

[Sister Alvear]

We do have indians in Brazil like you have in America that are civilized...