Biblical Faith: Rational/Irrational? - 'God, I don't want to die,' U.S. missionary wrote before he w
An American missionary trying to meet and convert one of the most isolated hunter-and-gatherer tribes in the world offered them fish and other small gifts before the tribesmen killed him and buried his body on the beach, journals and emails show.John Allen Chau, 26, of Vancouver Washington, an Instagram adventurer who also led missionary trips abroad, traveled to the Andaman Islands - an Indian territory in the Bay of Bengal - this month to make contact with members of the tiny Sentinelese tribe, police said. The tribe, who have remained alone for centuries, reject contact with the wider world and react with hostility and violence to attempts by outsiders to interact with them. The island is off-limits to visitors under Indian law.
Chau's riveting journal of his last days, shared with The Post by his mother, shows a treacherous journey by dark in a small fishing boat to the area where the small tribe lived in huts. The men - about 5 feet-5 inches tall with yellow paste on their faces, Chau wrote - acted angrily to his presence as he tried to attempt to speak their language and sing "worship songs" to them, he wrote.
"I hollered, 'My name is John, I love you and Jesus loves you,' " he wrote in his journal. One of the juveniles shot at him with an arrow, which pierced his waterproof Bible, he wrote.
"You guys might think I'm crazy in all this but I think it's worthwhile to declare Jesus to these people," he wrote in a last note to his family on Nov. 16, shortly before he left the safety of the fishing boat to meet the tribesmen on the island. "God, I don't want to die," he wrote.
Fishermen saw the tribe burying his body on the beach the following day, a fellow missionary wrote in an email to his mother, Lynda Adams-Chau of Vancouver, Washington.
What are your views on the above-stated situation?
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In this day in my area i see the church-----not its teaching but church itself helping older people with meals, activities, shows ect.
I have mentioned before i do know first hand people who have died, more peacefully because of their belief of their god. Yes we have many different gods but it is the belief itself that has helped.
so i reckon too reading history many a bad thing has been done through religions heading too.
So fors and against in religion AND a belief whatever you may hold.
As you can tell, my opinion on the situation is, if its not broken, don t try and change it.
...may he rest in pieces...
I'm sure the mosquitos and tapeworms will be thrilled.
And what about those spitting vipers ? Volunteers ?
I have reworded the title of the blog in the hope that it would draw comments from from those who profess to adhere to the teachings of the Christian Bible.
Some blogs we comment some we dismiss
Can't really blame them. We all get tempted to do that to those ringing the doorbell at 7am to ask if we have been saved.
Or are you saying she is also carrying diseases?