Posted on 08/07/2023 2:51:24 AM PDT by aquila48
John Allen Chau had tried to make contact with the hostile and isolated Sentinelese people, who were known to be aggressive toward outsiders and are a protected tribe with restrictions on visiting their island
An ambitious Christian missionary met an untimely end when he was slaughtered by a uncontacted tribe after trying to convert them to his religion.
John Allen Chau, 27, visited an island in the Indian Ocean inhabited by people who are part of an endangered tribe. People are banned from even approaching North Sentinel Island to protect the people who live there and their way of life.
But that didn't stop John, who made the dangerous journey to try and convert the people who lived there to Christianity. He'd grown up in a Christian home in Vancouver, Washington, and had a passion for hiking, camping and travelling.
John regularly documented his experiences online, and after returning from a trip to Mexico in high school he gave a homily where he said Christians "need to know how to defend our faith".
"When we go out in our world, there are people that'll just come and oppose us, and they'll have questions, and they'll have questions, and they'll have arguments..." he said. "We can't just, like, go out there unprepared. We need to know what we believe and why we believe it."
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
“Isolated” generally means “have no immunity to the various diseases circulating around the modern world”.
This guy would likely have killed them all off if they had welcomed him.
BORDERS !
This happened in 2018 = 5 years ago
We discussed it ad nauseum then on FR, why are you posting it now again?
This was published yesterday. That’s probably why.
Where is Sentinel Island?
“ This guy would likely have killed them all off if they had welcomed him.”
Ok genius.
I see a lot of people here post items that have been previously posted and then comments that the “search function still works”. Does it work well? I have anecdotally tried to search things from time to time without much success. Thoughts?
Perhaps I am doing my searches wrong?
They’ve been visited by a few groups since the late 1700s.
Various gifts were left in their possession; often left on shore.
At least a couple of them did die after meeting foreigners.
And yes, a few people who did try to visit them did not survive first contact.
AGAIN?????
It’s east of India. From a map, it looks to be roughly 2/3 of the distance to Myanmar.
Near the Andaman Sea
Too bad this doesn’t happen to those who push they eco nazi beliefs on others.
A Christian dies, a martyr is born. He had the courage to come off the mountain. I need that courage.
..... visiting the
“Modernized” woman....
.... and...
...took him for all he’s worth....
Reposting this, regardless of the MSM necro posting their own articles is only helping the media insult and denigrate Christianity.
Which is likely the entire reason for the MSM dredging this up again, to continue bashing “ignorant Christians.” let’s not help the enemy spread their propaganda.
The search function here absolutely sucks despite them pretending otherwise.
It’s an old joke. A masochist and a sadist are walking down the street together. The masochist says ‘hit me,’ and the sadist says, ‘No, I won’t.’
In this case the sadist said, “I would gladly love to kill you if you show up on my island!”
Catholic? Orthodox? Protestant? What sort of Protestant? The article gives no information, other than the appearance that "John" was busy with repeatedly documenting his attempts by photos and messages.
But as to the message? We know that schisms are occurring all across Christendom as I type, with whole denominations breaking in two or more over competing messages and all, according to their own views, are about "Jesus."
I come to think that this "John" had as his goal not evangelizing so much as exhibiting his own documented ego involvement in evangelizing. There is a difference. It is a sad story, no matter how one reads it.
Best wishes.
Jesus told us to be wise in our evangalism. He might have packed a gun so to escape the sticky situation and flee to evangelize another day.
You can sort of use search to make sure you don’t post a duplicate item by searching on one unique term in the headline. That kind of works. Otherwise, the FR search is pretty useless. For general searching on FR, I use the normal search engines (Brave and DDG for me, Google is a last resort) with the site search tag site:Freerepublic.com at the end of the search string.
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