12 February 2006 - 8:44am
Send all religions back to the Abrahamic desert. Pronto.
[AFP photo]
The Venezuelan government has given a Christian missionary group from the US until Sunday to leave the country.
President Hugo Chavez has repeatedly called for the expulsion of the New Tribes Mission, saying they are American imperialists.
He has called them spies of the CIA and colonialists.
Most of the 160 evangelical preachers and their families have already gone back to the US, after he asked them to leave last October.
Only 30 New Tribes missionaries are still in Venezuela.
For the past 60 years, the New Tribes Mission, which has its world headquarters in Florida, has been trying to convert indigenous groups in Venezuela to Christianity.
It is a non-denominational Christian society which says it is only funded by private individuals, not by the US government.
Indigenous groups
The missionaries live and work in the remotest areas of the country, including the Amazon rainforest.
Their goal is find tribes untouched by so-called "civilisation" in order to convert them to Christianity.[...]
In return for agreeing to adopt the Christian faith, the indigenous people receive basic health care and literacy classes.
Yes send them home. Tho it sounds like "home" is the funding purse of some hard right evangelical religionists in America.
And, in the meantime, America and Venezuela and whomever else can cartoon caricature the church groups (and Jesus, God the Father, the Blessed Holy Virgin AND the Holy Ghost) and Imperial Invasive America in any way they wish.
Part of politics (and war) is harsh, often nasty and mean propaganda by depiction. And religion is part of power and politics. Part of geo political war as well.
If the right wing Danish press cannot caricature the prophet Mohammed (and if there was NO truth in some of those cartoons you have not been reading along for years) then the ME press had best stop with the all too familiar anti-Israel / anti-occupier cartoons.
I say, let it all rip.
The last thing on earth that should be sacrosanct is religion. Anybody's religion.
What a fetid sacred cow.
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tired of the enforced piety. In my personal experience, the evil done by the religious is second ONLY to the rapacious corporate ladder climbers. Hell, a lot of times they're the same people.
Hell, a lot of times they're the same people.
ABSOLUTELY! Cannot tell me that the entirely fucked proselytisers were not hand in glove with the American business interests "up river" in Venezuela "for sixty years".
As Miss Condi appears on my TV.. whose pastor father it is more than rumored to have worked with the white citizen councils and possibly the FBI (the Hooverites).