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Missionaries:

Utah wants to count Mormon Missionaries in census.

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...

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Questions about Missionaries

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...

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The good book

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?"

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Don't be a Jew

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.

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Dirty poor people living in slime: Missionaries and American Idol

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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Attack of the Hound of Malembi. Or, "Whose are these people, anyway?"

Category: Missionaries

One day a rabid dog appeared out of nowhere, bit three or four goats, killed my cat, and bit six people.

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The Great White Missionary

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.

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Our Research Camp as a Mission Station

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...

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Forget the Maginot Line, What About the Beer Line?

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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On a Mission from God

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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