onegoodmove

Ah yes, "the noisy linguistic game of naming and shaming"...they might have been talking about ABC's disgraceful performance at the debate last night. Stephanopoulos has lost the last shred of respect I had for him, and his show now has one less viewer.

That article about the missionaries is really insane. Though, if god did exist, it'd be pretty clear from history and from modern day Africa that he really doesn't like black folks. I mean, genocide, starvation, slavery, colonization... Can he do much more to inflict misery on a continent of people?

On a related note, last summer I was in Nicaragua and met my first group of missionaries in a remote place along the Caribbean coast called Tasbapauni. They were totally obnoxious referring to me as their "white brother" and had brought a generator and video projector with them so they could show religious movies at night to help brainwash the people. (The village had no electricity so just having movies projected brought out everyone in town). They also hung a huge Canadian flag outside their place which was horribly distasteful considering Latin America's history of colonization and conquest by Western Nations.

The icing on this rotten cake though was the fact that this little town of maybe a few hundred people already had four churches. But when I asked the missionaries about this their reason for needing to spread the word was they were Pentecostal churches and the missionaries were of a different sect of Christianity. So, apparently, these poor people had been brainwashed into the wrong denomination of the "Good Word" and were still going to hell.

F*cking *ssholes.