Sometimes you run into people who are so clueless you wonder how they dress themselves. Today I ran into a blog being kept by a Christian missionary in Thailand. I’ll just link to one post without comment. It parodies itself.
Here’s a post on another blog that talks about Christian missionary work in Thailand. Techniques for converting the Thais include scare-mongering and emotional blackmail.
Update: Here’s one more — “Buddhist migrants pressured to convert to Christianity.” I bet they’re not as aggressive with the Muslims.
I wish some of these deadheads would stop and think how they would feel if some group representing another religion tried the same tricks on them, or on other Christians. Do unto others, etc.
Ah, Christianity and Islam just never seem to wise up, after all the centuries – at least some of their proponents.
I thought the sorting between heaven and hell didn’t happen until the rapture. At least that’s what I learned when I was in church. Admittedly, I haven’t seen the inside of a church in many a year, but the bible doesn’t change all that much.
From the one post I read, Amy seemed like a decent enough person. Until, of course, she had to comment on monks living a lie and going to hell when they die. Creeps me out, like watching Rosemary’s Baby or something. I keep expecting to hear the freaky, discordant music and a high, too-knowing lilt of a young girl singing in a mocking voice: “La, la-la, la-laaaaaa-la….”
I like to think that God and I get along very well, it’s the people who associate with him that I don’t like.
That monk isn’t in hell yet..He’s probably still in purgatory. Doesn’t Amy know that she can buy a mass card when she returns to the states, and have him prayed into heaven? If she really cares? Jesus is so good!
Please don’t malign DeadHeads that way. I was never one, but some of my friends were.
Several years ago I ran into a Christian Korean guy in Seattle who was there to convert Americans. He said that
America and American Christianity had seriously gone off track and was in need of converting. I’m sure most Thais dealt with the ‘missionary’ the same way we deal with Hari Krishna people, speaking of which, I haven’t seen them recently, what happened to all of the Hari Krishna people?
Nope, Swami, that’s the Catholic version- North American Evangelical Protestantism is usually about personally accepting Jesus as your personal saviour before you die- that or Hell.
Holy crap. Missed this post yesterday, but I will try to make up for lost time and pray extra extra hard for those missionaries to get some much-needed… humility and perspective.
I think I know why Jesus wept.
The sad thing is that this is not at all unusual – very much a plain vanilla “compassion for the unsaved” story we’ve all heard thousands of times.
Luckily most of the farangs I’ve met in Chiang Mai (we’ve been there for several months the last 2 years and are going back for several more this year) are not Christian mission types, and many express distaste at those who are. I’ve several times heard people talking about them negatively specifically because of the way they lie to Thais about themselves, about the Thais and the way they live, or about Christianity.
“I wish some of these deadheads would stop and think”
HEY! As a thinking deadhead myself, Maha, perhaps you could have selected a more politic way of phrasing this. 😉
Lord that missionary blog is clueless and annoying. I’ll cut her some slack because it seems she’s only 22 (who wasn’t a self important idiot at that age?) but really this sort of thing has gotta stop:
“Last week we finished up learning about Buddhism. It is amazing how my mindset has changed since the beginning of the week. At first, it was very intimidating to share the gospel with Buddhist. I kept waiting for a time when they would get angry or argumentitive with us, but that was never the case. I realized right away how hopeless the people feel in Buddhism. They do not have a relationship with God like we do, and they long for that.”