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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts)
Sat Dec 1, 2018, 06:10 PM Dec 2018

Police: Two Americans helped missionary killed by remote Indian tribe

Indian police believe two American missionaries encouraged John Allen Chau to go to a forbidden island where he was killed by an isolated tribe he was trying to convert, a top investigator said Saturday.

Dependra Pathak, head of police in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, told AFP the suspects had left India, and that there was still no sign of the body of Chau -- who was killed last month in a hail of arrows fired by the Sentinelese tribe.

"We are investigating the role of at least two Americans, a man and a woman, who met with the man who went to the island," Pathak said.

"These other two, who have since left the country, were reportedly into evangelical activities and encouraged him to visit the island."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/police-two-americans-helped-missionary-killed-by-remote-indian-tribe/ar-BBQkAt8?li=BBnbcA1

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Police: Two Americans helped missionary killed by remote Indian tribe (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2018 OP
This makes his "I don't want to die" journal entry all the more sad if Merlot Dec 2018 #1
he didn't have to die JI7 Dec 2018 #2
Xtians need to learn 2naSalit Dec 2018 #3
+1000000! SammyWinstonJack Dec 2018 #7
Like handing a loaded handgun to a suicidal person. hunter Dec 2018 #4
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." keithbvadu2 Dec 2018 #5
I can't believe we're still trying this with foreign cultures DFW Dec 2018 #6
By the way, I think the healine is missing two key words DFW Dec 2018 #8

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
1. This makes his "I don't want to die" journal entry all the more sad if
Sat Dec 1, 2018, 08:26 PM
Dec 2018

these other two pushed him into doing this.

2naSalit

(86,649 posts)
3. Xtians need to learn
Sat Dec 1, 2018, 09:20 PM
Dec 2018

that the world is not there for them to convert to their bs religion. They need to work on their own evils within.

Organized religion is a convenient way to control masses of people through fear and guilt.

hunter

(38,317 posts)
4. Like handing a loaded handgun to a suicidal person.
Sat Dec 1, 2018, 11:25 PM
Dec 2018

The evangelical Christian culture this kid embraced is sick.

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)
5. "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Sun Dec 2, 2018, 01:24 AM
Dec 2018

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2001/09/14/this-is-war-n865496

DFW

(54,409 posts)
6. I can't believe we're still trying this with foreign cultures
Sun Dec 2, 2018, 01:31 AM
Dec 2018

After all, what would be the reception of someone from Saudi Arabia going to a small town in Mississippi or Idaho trying to convert the people there to Islam? The only difference is that they wouldn't use bows and arrows.

DFW

(54,409 posts)
8. By the way, I think the healine is missing two key words
Sun Dec 2, 2018, 01:41 AM
Dec 2018

Instead of "Two Americans helped missionary killed by remote Indian tribe " I think it should read:

"Two Americans helped missionary get himself killed by remote Indian tribe "

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