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To: epicure who wrote (689)	8/25/2001 3:52:29 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51717

It didn't make me suspicious at all for some reason. My intuition said "good person here." The fact that he's an evangelical Episcopalian doesn't contradict that, at least until there's some reason to think it does. I noticed on BR that Steven Rogers was talking against missionaries in the third world. He'd witnessed lots of awful things. As I've written on SI, we went to Africa with the usual suspicions of missionaries, suspicions that have been earned, historically. But our personal experience there was that the religious missions were doing hard, good work in places on the earth nobody who didn't think they'd get a reward in the next life would want to abide in this one, and doing it heroically. They'd run schools in the ass end of nowhere, run health clinics, help the poorest of the poor, take in orphans. And they kept on smiling. I'm sure it's different in different places and different circumstances, but what we saw was these kindly men and women improving the lives of desperately poor people. I suppose they read the Bible to them, too, but there was no "Get Baptized and we'll give your baby the medicine" going on.