How Missionaries And Colonizers Destroyed Indigenous CIVILIZATIONS

(This was a comment posted on my status yesterday about a book titled God Against The Indians.)

In each country Lewis describes the time he spent. He tries to reach the remote areas, spend time with the Indians (the traditional local inhabitants are usually called Indians — but not in the case of Tahiti and Vietnam) spend time with the missionaries and explain the outcomes of the intervention.

In many cases the missionaries in question are American Evangelist (but not always), are very organised, and are without doubt destroying the culture of these remote tribes. So many aspects are common to these missions — forcing the Indians to wear clothes rather than their native dress (or lack of), preventing the natives from performing their customary dancing, singing and ceremonies (other than singing hymns), moving the nomadic or semi-nomadic tribes into houses in the missions, indenturing or enslaving the Indians into working on farms and plantations, modifying their attitudes to sex. As well as that, eliminating the Shaman and traditional beliefs of the Indians and converting then to believe in a fairytale about sky wizards and a heaven and hell scenario which they cannot even translate into a workable concept for the Indians.

I mean this literally — the translations turn the core concepts of Christianity into a ridiculous jumble…