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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 11:05 am
They're back in the news, I guess. I remember the story about tribals shooting a helicopter with an arrow. Dude goes to an island he's not supposed to be on, with no protection or assistance. He wanted some adventure. Can you imagine Bilbo's last words being "I'm going on an adventure!", before getting shot dead by a goblin?
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 11:07 am
There's a reason the island is off-limits to outsiders This tragedy was completely avoidable, and I hope other would-be missionaries to indigenous people take a lesson from it.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 11:38 am
You would expect him to do at least a little research, and find out they'd likely kill him if he went there. The fact that he kept walking as they were shooting at him tels us about his mental state.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 11:54 am
(November 21, 2018 at 11:38 am)Chad32 Wrote: You would expect him to do at least a little research, and find out they'd likely kill him if he went there. The fact that he kept walking as they were shooting at him tels us about his mental state.
From what I've read about him, he probably well knew what was "likely" to happen, but though because he would walk over all peaceful like, they'd welcome him with open arms.......and not spears/arrows and shit like that.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 12:21 pm
I still think most humans are good. But still enough sickos though.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 2:08 pm
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His estate still owes the endomanese a number of replacement arrows for the ones the preacher stole.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 2:41 pm
Why the hell are they trying to recover the body?
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 2:44 pm
Can you imagine what an inbred gene pool that must be?
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 3:13 pm
I'm skeptical of the missionary motivation for his attempt to visit the island. Most of the reporting describes John Allen Chau as an adventure tourist. Chau's Instagram profile contains the following:
"The 27-year-old described himself on Instagram as a “Wilderness EMT (Emergency Medical Technician), “PADI Advanced Open Water Diver”, “Outbound Collective Explorer” and a “Snakebite Survivor”."
Missions are typically sponsored by a church or other faith based organization, but I cannot find any reference to an organization claiming affiliation. It's certainly possible that an organization would distance itself from someone that knowingly broke the law. I also understand that he could potentially be an independent prosthelytizer, but his adventure tourism seems to be more prevalent in what's being reported about his internet presence.
As far as locals claiming he was out to preach, I think it's much more likely that Chau used that as an excuse while trying to convince locals to break the law. Or the locals can simply be making it up to try to cover their own asses. While reading through the reporting I was reminded of a young woman that blew through a stop sign at a 'T' intersection and ran into a house. Although suspected of texting and not paying attention she claimed that she was praying with her eyes shut. As OakTree already mentioned, the language barrier makes the missionary aspect of this a bit of a stretch to begin with.
