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Related: About this forumBringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous
by Sue Branford on 17 March 2020
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Ethnos360, an evangelical Christian missionary group, is embarking on a controversial new project, just as the coronavirus begins spreading widely in Brazil.
The organization, formerly known internationally as the New Tribes Mission, and based in Sanford, Florida, USA, plans to use a newly purchased aircraft to contact and convert isolated Amazon indigenous groups even though such contact is banned explicitly by FUNAI, Brazils indigenous agency, and implicitly under the nations 1988 Constitution.
The fundamentalist Christian groups venture could also spread dangerous infectious diseases, like COVID-19, to isolated tribes utterly lacking resistance and immunity.
At the end of January, Edward Luz, president of New Tribes Mission of Brazil, announced the acquisition of the Ethnos360 Aviation R66 helicopter, able to operate in the remote rainforests of Western Brazil, and he told a small group of Christian evangelicals assembled in Rio de Janeiro, that: God will do anything to see to it that mankind hears His Word. If a helicopter becomes necessary, He provides it.
More:
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/bringing-christ-and-coronavirus-evangelicals-to-contact-amazon-indigenous/
Why can't these racist lunatics be stopped?
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Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)selfish version of Christianity to a bunch of people who were minding their own business. I despise assholes like that.
Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)They blunder in and clearly expose them to deadly diseases, and pride themselves on the "sacrifice" they made to leave their homes to go out to tell "heathens" how superior they are, and that these people should drop everything and start trying to be like them or that they will burn in hell forever.
What a scam.
Then, when they return to their congregations in the U.S., they regale Caucasians with tales about what utterly ignorant bumpkins those "heathens" were, as if they couldn't do anything right, and they lived in squalor, and total heathen-ness, and were hot messes, as it were.
OMG.
They all suffer from psychotic racial pride and total mental vacuums. They are dumber, and more prideful than normal lumps of flesh.
sinkingfeeling
(51,501 posts)2naSalit
(87,012 posts)The xtian claim to fame.
GReedDiamond
(5,321 posts)...to all sorta shit that "we" are generally immune to, much less the coronavirus.