i’m assuming by now you’ve all read about the christian missionary who was killed while trying to convert the uncontacted indigenous north sentinelese tribe in india – which is, in fact, illegal, because the tribe has had absolutely no contact with the outside world and is therefore incredibly vulnerable to foreign contagions and diseases – but what a lot of stories are leaving out is that the guy actually spent several hours on the island, long enough to speak with the members of the tribe and “sing worship songs to them,” before members of the tribe killed him. and he brought along a backpack with some personal possessions, which remained on the island and were handled by members of the tribe. which is to say he fully could have unwittingly infected the tribe with some lethal disease that could wipe all of them out. what kind of narcissistic sociopath.
“Police said Chau had previously visited North Sentinel island about four or five times with the help of local fishermen,” journalist Subir Bhaumik, who has been covering the islands for years, told BBC Hindi.
oh sorry it’s actually worse than i thought, he went to the island multiple times with multiple other outsiders, each time increasing the possibility of exposing the tribe to foreign contagions
A source with access to handwritten notes that Chau gave to the fishermen to pass on to a friend said that Chau described taking scissors, safety pins and a football as gifts to the tribe.
In his notes, the source said, Chau wrote that some members of the tribe were good to him while others were very aggressive.
“I have been so nice to them, why are they so angry and so aggressive?” the source quoted Chau as saying.
HE BROUGHT SCISSORS??? SAFETY PINS??? ITEMS THAT COULD INJURE THE MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE???
#not to be controversial but this just comes to show that christian colonizers #do not think of these tribes as thinking feeling autonomous people on the same level as them #or on any level at all: #they see these tribes as savages or animals #this could not be more clearly a matter of reaching some kind of ultimate christian trophy #it’s dehumanizing and evil #like the audacity of this colonizer is cartoonish – he loves them and jesus loves them? #give me a break. #no offense but these people have made their laws and it was within their right to kill this fool
Tag: religion
i thought sleepytime tea was run by a racist cult???
uh what
so it turns out the celestial seasonings founders were in fact cult members idk what to do with this information but this is like wild:
The Sleepytime Tea Founders Were Into a Really Skeezy New-Age Bible
In no time the friends were sauntering into the local bank to get a loan for their new business, “wearing jeans, smelling of herbs, and armed with Tupperware containers of Mo’s 36 and Sleepytime blends.” They called their company Celestial Seasonings, after co-founder Lucinda Ziesing’s flowername.
But there might be another reason they named it “celestial.” Mo Siegel and John Hay, two of the founders, were avid believers in a new-age bible called The Urantia Book, which followers call “an epochal revelation authored solely by celestial beings.” The book touches upon everything from mind control to a eugenics plot to eliminate the “inferior races” of our great nation.
It’s that time of year to say no to the Salvation Army.
Never forget they let a Trans woman die instead of helping her.
Never forget they have tossed entire families on the street for having an LGBT child.
Never forget they tell non Christian families that unless they convert they will not help them.
Never forget that the Salvation Army is bigoted and hateful, many of the bell ringers routinely heckle and harass LGBT couples.
Annual reblog.
to every “openminded” christian who thinks youre not homophobic because you “love everyone regardless of sin”… please know you still make all the lgbt people around you want to die and if given the opportunity to cut ties with you they will … if that sounds mean to you then maybe work on not seeing your “loved ones” as sinners for just being who they are and start lovingly embracing their differences instead of barely, bitterly tolerating them
p.s. it’s a widely known “secret” that people who “love everyone regardless of sin” try to “discourage” that “sin” by being passive aggressively abusive and voting for homophobic politicians and policies which make life physically and psychologically dangerous for lgbt people
