A RIVETING and hugely satisfying report on BBC Radio 4 today tells the story of a missionary who was charged by an American missionary group with taking the Gospel to the little understood Pirahãs tribe in the Amazon - only to realise how ridiculous his faith in Christianity was.
... read about it at The Freethinker
H/T: August Berkshire
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So how soon before the Pirahas start sending missionaries over here?
Maybe it was the sight of all those smiling, nakid natives that aroused his interest in how the other half live...
Amazonian tribe: 1 Jebus: 0
Romeo: First they would have to acknowledge that what we call "here" exists, even though they can't see it.