Missionary Killed on Remote Island

[Cow Poke]

Here is another interesting article about this from the NYTimes...

Retrieving Body of Missionary Killed on Remote Indian Island Is a Struggle

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The fishermen who took him close enough to the island for him to kayak to shore have, reportedly, been arrested for "culpable homicide" by the Indian police.

[Sparko]

Man Who Has Never Shared Jesus With Anyone Criticizes Slain Missionary's Lack Of Wisdomhttps://babylonbee.com/news/man-who-...lack-of-wisdom




I think the babylon bee has been reading tweb.

[seer]

I don't like this writer...

foist his presence and beliefs on the Sentinelese tribe. For centuries they have lived on North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, hundreds of miles off the southeastern coast of India. Their lives are untouched by even a hint of modernity, and they do not welcome visitors. Ever.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/..._ReadMore_Pos1

[Cow Poke]

If a man dies flying a stunt plane or driving a race car, "he died doing what he loves".

If a man dies telling people about Jesus he's an arrogant idiot who deserved what he got.

[Roy]

If a man dies flying a stunt plane or driving a race car, "he died doing what he loves".

If a man dies telling people about Jesus he's an arrogant idiot who deserved what he got.

How could he have been telling them about Jesus? He didn't speak their language.

He has won a Darwin award, and is likely to be this year's champion.

[Cow Poke]

How could he have been telling them about Jesus? He didn't speak their language.

There are a lot of things I don't understand about this, Roy.

[Leonhard]

I don't know if what he did was smart but he certainly had spiwit.

[rogue06]

How could he have been telling them about Jesus? He didn't speak their language.

He has won a Darwin award, and is likely to be this year's champion.

How did the anthropologist T.N. Pandit communicate with them when he visited them several times back in the 1960s through 90s?

[Roy]

How did the anthropologist T.N. Pandit communicate with them when he visited them several times back in the 1960s through 90s?

He gave them coconuts and cookware.

Good luck telling some-one about Jesus using that method.

[seer]

There are a lot of things I don't understand about this, Roy.

Perhaps he thought God would give him the gift of tongues. It's not like that never happened in Christian history.

[rogue06]

He gave them coconuts and cookware.

Good luck telling some-one about Jesus using that method.

It's how you make friends (we don't know if Chau also had gifts). Many folks have made contact with other people where there was a language barrier and eventually were able to communicate. I daresay a good number of missionaries in the past didn't know the language of the people they ran across.

[Roy]

It's how you make friends (we don't know if Chau also had gifts).

Apparently his journal records him having taken "scissors, safety pins, fish and a football." But no coconuts.

Many folks have made contact with other people where there was a language barrier and eventually were able to communicate. I daresay a good number of missionaries in the past didn't know the language of the people they ran across.

Undoubtedly. How is this relevant to some-one who died before the language barrier was breached?

Chau's journal apparently also records that he tried speaking to the islanders in English and Xhosa,* including quoting the Bible, so he was definitely trying to tell them about Jesus. He also went back after they shot at him. Pandit had more sense.

*which he probably wouldn't have bothered with if he believed in the gift of tongues

[Cow Poke]

Perhaps he thought God would give him the gift of tongues. It's not like that never happened in Christian history.

As I've shared, it happened in my living room with out South American / Mexican students.

[One Bad Pig]

He has won a Darwin award, and is likely to be this year's champion.

Well, that shows what the voters think of proselytizing, if nothing else.

[JimL]

Perhaps he thought God would give him the gift of tongues. It's not like that never happened in Christian history.

Yes, perhaps he was a bit daft. I guess whatever he thought, he was wrong, and now he's dead.