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February 11, 2008

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Mark

Leave it to the christians to clothe the naked heathens everywhere they go... That was also one of the first things that missionaries did in New Guinea - there are lots of old pictures of missionary families standing in the middle of a tribe clothed in identical white shirts and black slacks/skirts. Hooray for erasing indigenous cultures...

mar

There was a really interesting passage before the one I quoted Mark where Moffatt debates on the perennial missionary question - which should come first - civilizing or evangelizing groups that he refers to as "savages." His position is that if one evangelizes first, then the civilizing is sure to soon follow.

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