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Category: Missionaries
But they can't, because they don't freakin' live in Utah. But I wish they did. Hey, has anyone noticed a marked increase in these drones from Utah in South Minneapolis lately? What do they think they are goig to accomplish there? Anyway: SALT LAKE CITY...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:05 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Missionaries
As you know, there has been quite a bit of discussion about missionaries in the Congo on this blog. This is the central post pointing to everything else, and at Minnesota Atheists you'll find a link to today's radio show on the topic. It turns...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:30 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Missionaries
"So, since Radiocarbon dating has been proved to not work, how do we really know that the earth is billions of years old?"
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:48 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: lost congo memoir
And so Grinker read the text, and a few sentences in it became clear that this was one of those bible passages that had a lot to say about the Jews. The Jews were bad, the Jews could not be trusted, the Jews needed to convert, and so on and so forth.
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:00 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Missionaries
... you can look at the smiling face of an African Child bursting with happiness, and think, "well ... he's happy" and not understand this is kid will die of malaria next month because you needed a new cell phone. Or because he lives near a Christian mission with a medical facility but is not a Christian ...
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Category: Missionaries
One day a rabid dog appeared out of nowhere, bit three or four goats, killed my cat, and bit six people.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:39 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
The missionary's son had his head bowed and was praying. Mom looked like she wanted to join in. Great White himself was getting increasingly incoherent as he obtained a reasonable contact high.
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:07 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
A couple of "missionary" posts back, I intimated that we got to stay at the missionary stations while visiting various cities or en route between points in return for our work giving out medicine and such at our research camp. In truth, the arrangement was...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
Near the end of the earth there are lines one might not cross for fear of falling off. OK, you won't really fall off, but you will become scared and lost....
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Category: lost congo memoir
... so we were talking about those things people talk about when they are first getting to know each other, like what religion are you, wouldn't you be interested in converting to my religion, how Jesus first came into my life, and how Jesus saved me, and so on and so forth...
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