Born-Again Christian Missionaries Are Setting Fire to Sacred Aboriginal Objects

[NeoGreen]

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/09/21/born-again-christian-missionaries-are-setting-fire-to-sacred-aboriginal-objects/

Born-Again Christian Missionaries Are Setting Fire to Sacred Aboriginal Objects
By David Gee, September 21, 2019

A group of Christian missionaries who believe traditional Aboriginal culture is the same as worshiping the devil is burning sacred objects in the Australian Outback.

Pentecostal preacher Ana Makahununiu leads the group, which is actively destroying a way of life that has already been under assault since White people first invaded. And if you needed even more reason to dislike them, the group also promises to bring people back from the dead.

An investigation by Background Briefing has uncovered dramatic scenes in the Kimberley region, where Aboriginal followers of a Tongan-born preacher have set fire to artefacts considered sacred by many local elders, and dismantled and burned a spiritual law ground.

The approach of some recently arrived evangelists has been slammed by some Aboriginal leaders, including Labor senator Pat Dodson.

“They are a type of virus that has really got no credibility,” he said. “If they really understood the gospel then the gospel is about liberation.

The anti-Aboriginal group, made up of born-again Christians who are Aboriginal born, has also called the native culture “an act of bastardry.” They are basically dehumanizing the entire group of local people, all at the direction of someone who claims to be a “prophetess” through whom God speaks.

[edhopper]

1. I wonder how religion

is NOT the cause of this?

[blm]

2. Oh geez. These people are insane.

[NeoGreen]

3. How would we know?...

...

[MineralMan]

4. Oh, FFS!

[nykym]

5. Born-Again Christian Missionaries

Otherwise know as Born Again ISIS

[Duppers]

8. Bingo!

[abqtommy]

6. The answer to this historical and current behavior is found in the scriptures where it states

that followers of the Christ (which is an Egyptian word!) should "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." It's obviously both a failure in communication AND an invitation to have the same behavior applied to the Fasco-Christians.

[Bayard]

7. I've always hated people that say, my religion is better than yours

You will be assimilated, even if it kills you.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. I think the Sentinelese solved this problem pretty well.