2007-01-21 23:07:54 · 13 answers · asked by Lover of God 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We'd be talking easily in the millions. Maybe near the hundered of thousand mark or more.
And whats more, if you count the people who have been brought up in the idelogy of christianity - that is the west - you can count much of their giving to christian dogma, even though some of them reject Christ but act in a Christian manner
2007-01-21 23:17:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Missionaries didn't take people food. Those people had food already and knew better how to find it than the missionaries did. So they wouldn't have been starving.
Christian missionaries probably took capitalist ideas with them, which results in the imbalances that lead to poverty, and they certainly took diseases to which the natives had no immunity. This killed untold millions of people whom Christians felt it was their duty to interfere with. I don't think missionaries, for whatever misguided good intentions they had, have much to be thanked for by the people they tried to convert.
2007-01-22 07:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Probably none of them.
Missionaries have been the force behind the destruction of many cultures by changing their ways, forbidding them to live like they had been prior to their coming. Forcing them to wear clothes and adopt farming techniques that rapes the land of its goodness and requires people to remain in one place rather than being nomadic and allowing the land to recover.
Keep missionaries out of countries bringing in their biased views
Think of all the religious orders that brought God to the natives but at the price of theft of their Gold jewels artifacts and cultural heritage.
No, no cultuture would be starving if we had prevented religious groups from being of so called help. the only help was to help themselves their church or king and queen
2007-01-22 07:15:26 · answer #3 · answered by Shelty K 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No offence or anything but in the old days the English missionaries forced Christianity upon people in Africa and other places. A lot of the people were treated like slaves.
2007-01-22 07:12:35 · answer #4 · answered by Kalindi 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I dont imagin the missionerys have made much differance to the numbers of starving their are stillmillions starving the problem is not solved yet.
2007-01-22 07:13:48 · answer #5 · answered by Mim 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You mean if it wasn't for God laying it on the heart of Christians to go on these missions. If it weren't for God many would be starving right now.
2007-01-22 07:13:12 · answer #6 · answered by lilmama 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
And how many more would be living full and productive lives if they hadn't been slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands by Christians?
Crusades
Inquisition
Persecution of heretics/Jews
Holocaust
I know, I know -- they weren't "real" Christians, but they are absolutely products of the Christian culture!
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2007-01-22 07:22:20 · answer #7 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
great answer shelty!!!! the great jesuits in our early history of our country turned many an indian tribe to jesus. the only problem was if they didnt conform they were either sent abroad as slaves, here as slaves or just out right killed! and to the non believers there are many english and french records to prove this.
2007-01-22 07:21:25 · answer #8 · answered by jrtoyboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
explain to me how many american indians were slaughtered when the missionaries came. have you ever heard the words to the eagles song the last resort. pay attention to the word "we satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God"
2007-01-22 07:40:59 · answer #9 · answered by titania 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Should be interesting to see how the mean people try and rob these christian givers out of their credit.
2007-01-22 07:21:14 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋