US missionary who engaged with reclusive Brazilian tribe could be charged with genocide

[NeoGreen]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12196379

US missionary who engaged with reclusive Brazilian tribe could be charged with genocide
By: Phoebe Loomes, 25 Jan, 2019

An American missionary spreading his beliefs to remote tribes in Brazil has been questioned over his contact with a previously isolated tribe and could be charged with genocide, according to reports.

Steve Campbell has been questioned over an illegal journey he made into the protected area in a remote part of the southern Amazon in Brazil. The area is occupied by the Hi-Merimã tribespeople.

Campbell is a missionary who receives funding from the Greene Baptist Church. He has been inhabiting indigenous land that is occupied by around 100 different tribes for the past month, according to reports. He was questioned by Funai, a local government body who investigate indigenous affairs.

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"If it is established in the investigation that there was an interest in making contact, using his relationship with other (tribes people) to approach the isolated (Hi-Merimã tribe), he could be charged with the crime of genocide by deliberately exposing the safety and life of the Merimãs," says Bruno Pereira, a general co-ordinator at Funai.

Pereira went on to explain that the group is at great risk of mass death from small infections like the flu or conjunctivitis, and that outsiders needed to "respect the self-determination of these people."

"It's a case of rights violation and exposure to risk of death to isolated indigenous population," said another statement from Funai.

"Even if direct contact has not occurred, the probability of transmission of diseases to the isolated is high."

[hlthe2b]

1. Good

[trotsky]

2. I've been told religion never makes people do bad things.

He must have contacted that tribe in order to give them the book of Chairman Mao's sayings.

[Major Nikon]

5. Probably an amway salesman

[Bretton Garcia]

13. Working for Betsy DeVos?

Trump's devout Sec. Ed , and Amway heiress. Sister of Eric Prince, cofounder of Blackwater mercenaries.

[edhopper]

3. WTF!

I mean WTF is wrong with these people. This is all ego, God is going to love them for going to the fucking end of the Earth to find an isolated group of people to spread his Fucking Bullshit Word.
Like the history of missionaries and indigenous people isn't bad enough.
What a fucking self righteous asshole. You'll have a lot of time to pray in jail.

[Mariana]

6. There are some Christians

who believe Jesus wants to come back and rule the world, but he can't or won't do it until every last person alive on earth has heard the gospel. Some of these missionaries who go to the ends of the earth to find isolated groups - and the Christians who fund such expeditions - are doing it in order to facilitate Jesus's return and the establishment of his worldwide kingdom. Greene Baptist Church may very well be among these. This is from their Statement of Faith:

2. About Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is co-equal with the Father. Jesus lived a sinless human life and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all people by dying on a cross. He arose from the dead after three days to demonstrate His power over sin and death. He ascended to Heaven’s glory and will return again someday to earth to reign as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.

http://greenebaptist.org/aboutus/statementoffaith.html

[edhopper]

7. He's God

he can do whatever the fuck he wants. He needs this dipshit to destroy an indigenous tribe for him to come back?

[Mariana]

8. I've long since given up any idea

of expecting to find any consistency in the beliefs of religious people. Plenty of them believe and will claim that their god is all powerful, and that it can't do this or that thing because (insert lame-ass excuse here).

[edhopper]

9. Religion and logic

do not go hand in hand.

[Major Nikon]

4. Locking these dipshits up is probably the only way to stop them

It's not as if laws, decency, or morality is any impediment.

[MineralMan]

10. Leave those people alone, you moron!

They have their own culture and their own religious beliefs. What makes you think yours is better? Just go away.

May you spend many years in prison for your arrogance!

[Voltaire2]

11. Excellent.

[MineralMan]

12. This cannot be true. He's a Christian. He couldn't do bad things.

Only Chinese atheists do bad things. That's what I hear in this Group all the time. Whatabout those Chinese government people?

I think this is very, very confusing. Religion brings good to society, right? So, how can what this Christian man has done be bad?