Send all religions back to the Abrahamic desert. Pronto.

words by Marisacat posted February 12, 2006 - 11:53pm

[AFP photo]

The Venezuelan government has given a Christian missionary group from the US until Sunday to leave the country.

President Hugo Chavez has repeatedly called for the expulsion of the New Tribes Mission, saying they are American imperialists.

He has called them spies of the CIA and colonialists.

Most of the 160 evangelical preachers and their families have already gone back to the US, after he asked them to leave last October.

Only 30 New Tribes missionaries are still in Venezuela.

For the past 60 years, the New Tribes Mission, which has its world headquarters in Florida, has been trying to convert indigenous groups in Venezuela to Christianity.

It is a non-denominational Christian society which says it is only funded by private individuals, not by the US government.

Indigenous groups

The missionaries live and work in the remotest areas of the country, including the Amazon rainforest.

Their goal is find tribes untouched by so-called "civilisation" in order to convert them to Christianity.[...]

In return for agreeing to adopt the Christian faith, the indigenous people receive basic health care and literacy classes.

Yes send them home. Tho it sounds like "home" is the funding purse of some hard right evangelical religionists in America.

And, in the meantime, America and Venezuela and whomever else can cartoon caricature the church groups (and Jesus, God the Father, the Blessed Virgin AND the Holy Ghost) and Imperial Invasive America in any way they wish.

Part of politics (and war) is harsh, often nasty and mean propaganda by depiction. And religion is part of power and politics. Part of geo political war as well.

If the right wing Danish press cannot caricature the prophet Mohammed (and if there was NO truth in some of those cartoons you have not been reading along for years) then the ME press had best stop with the all too familiar anti-Israel / anti-occupier cartoons.

I say, let it all rip.

The last thing on earth that should be sacrosanct is religion. Anybody's religion.

What a fetid sacred cow.

[x-posted from mediagirl]

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Get ready for some more Chavez-blaming

Comment by kactus posted February 14, 2006 - 11:19pm

Maybe Pat Robertson will call for his assassination again. After all, if that wasn't a hostile gesture, what is?

Gotta admire the pure moxy of the guy, thumbing his nose at Big Bad Neighbor to the North. I sure hope it doesn't backfire on him.

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It's about time some of

Comment by HereticChick posted February 15, 2006 - 3:25am

It's about time some of these countries kicked out those missionaries. It's always been my belief that they destroy these indiginous cultures with their christian beliefs. I think I kind of like Chavez :)

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman."
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Xtianity is POISON to indigenous cultures.

Comment by Morgaine Swann posted February 16, 2006 - 4:28am

Indigenous peoples have belief systems that have served them well for millenia, and they'll continue to serve them if we can keep the Anglos away from them. I wish they'd kick all the missionaries off American Indian Reservations, too.

The only problem is, he's sending these nuts back to us. Don't we have enough wingnuts to deal with?

Support the Women's Autonomy and Sexual Sovereignty Movements

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