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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (18656)	6/30/1998 9:37:00 AM
From: mark silvers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Bob With all due respect, there is a hole in that theory. Loggers are only men paid to cut down trees. They are not supernatural indigenous people finders. The missionaries are just as capable of finding small tribes as the loggers are. They dont need the loggers to complete the cycle. Given the poverty of most of those areas, the missionaries would be better suited paying small amounts of money to the locals to help them find the small tribes. That would have a twofold benefit of haivng someone with knowledge of the area helping them, and also putting some small amount of money into the local economy to help those indigenous peoples. Mark

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (18656)	6/30/1998 2:35:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

> So before the end can come all creation must hear the gospel of >Jesus Christ. Jesus said "must" in Mark 3:10 and "to all the >nations." He said again in Mark 16:15, "preach the gospel to all >creation." So this is a condition that must be met for the >end to come. There's a big flaw in that distorting Christ's direction to his disciples into a prophecy. There was quite a lot of the population (i.e., creation) that has already died and passed on before without having heard about Christ. He is directing them to form the Church to spread the Gospel, not predicting the end of the world as a consequence of that directive. >But we know that as the forests shrink there are fewer >places for the native tribes to hide. They eventually have to come >out, into the arms of the waiting missionaries. The only way to stop >this process is to stop the loggers. Missionaries who have gone into >the bush looking on their own often get killed. It would take a small >army of missionaries to do the job on their own and they would still >miss a tribe or two and many would be killed. The most efficient way >is to remove the rain forests. And that's what is happening and that >is what the environmentalists want to stop. The native tribes aren't hiding. That's where they make their subsistence living. It's the missionaries and the loggers who are appropriating resources that these peoples depend upon. It's no different from what the US public did to the American Indians; everytime they wanted land for gold speculation, ranching, farming, etc., they would direct the government to seize the land.