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To: Brumar89 who wrote (115643)	9/24/2003 10:40:02 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Well, you shouldn't expect people to act against their own beliefs." Unfortunately their beliefs are getting in the way of real help. I do NOT expect people to act against their beliefs- hence my argument that you get a quid pro prayer when the religious are involved. I'm the one who said that. I guess you are helping me with my argument? I'm the one who thinks you get the baggage with the buck with religious aid, and I'm the one who thinks there is something wrong with that. You would be the one with some other kind of opinion. And this: "And missionaries haven't always been purely destructive to native cultures. Many times they've helped them adapt and have been a force working for their defence. " Oh please Native cultures are destroyed by missionaries- that is after all the GOAL- to replace native religions. What else are they there for? Nada zip zilch

To: Brumar89 who wrote (115643)	9/25/2003 9:16:00 AM
From: k.ramesh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Religious charities from the west have morphed into corporations going for market share. It is no secret that religious charities look at the world in terms of market share and conquest - accumulating souls on the cheap with surplus milk powder. The first problem is the viewpoint of advanced culture versus indigenous culture. People going with this viewpoint can hardly be expected to understand or appreciate the local culture. They are highly motivated and completely believe they are an improvement over the local culture. Indigenous cultures have diffused boundaries between religion and life, and by destroying their religion,they cause disruption of the whole society. To take away the only thing that the defenceless people have and to call it charity is mind boggling. In earlier times missionaries went in to soften up the place for colonial conquest, now their role is soften it up for the one true way - homogenized globalized consumerist psuedo-democracies.