A little off the topic, but did anyone see the article about an Indian Tribe that was discovered (apparently had never had contact with anyone outside the tribe). Maybe this was the last group of people that need to hear the Gospel. I'd like a mailing address please so we can get on with this!
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Yeah, because a tribe so remote that it wasn't discovered until 2008 has a postal code.
I really can't wait till your god takes all of you off our planet so we can live more productive and intelligent lives.
"Maybe this was the last group of people that need to hear the Gospel"
I think you could be right - go and bother the 4 billion+ people in front of them that ain't christians* first and leave them in peace.
*Exact numbers depending on your definition of a True Christian
Yeah, because UPS ship to remote Brazilian tribes with no postal code. Leave these people alone, they don't want to hear your evil shit. First the Muslim citizens of Iraq, now they want to "save" a lost tribe. Fucking arrogant douchebags. The world does not belong to you!
I read the entire thread.
The fundies are wetting themselves with excitment. They've worked themselves up into a fundie frenzy of anticipation, with an expectation of the imminent arrival of the heavenly host. It's rather sad in a pathetic sort of way - they are truly wishing for the end of all life and to be taken "home": the sound of their disappointment will resound down the ages as an object lesson in hubris, stupidity, and abject failure.
I bet if you do a Google search you'll find all the information you need to contact these newly discovered people. I'm sure the first thing they thought when some man stumbled upon them was "Yeah, finally we get a post office and missionaries, we've been waiting in isolation forever for you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts; now we can be real!"
If they never hear about Jesus they'll go to heaven, won't they? It's only if they hear about Jesus and reject him that they'll be sent to hell. Or so some fundies have told me.
If you believe they'll go to hell but want that to happen because you think it will bring the end and you'll be with Jeebus sooner, you're a first-class asshole.
If you're referring to the Naua, they were discovered over a century ago, but they'd lost contact in the 1920s and, until recently, everyone thought they'd died out. That hardly counts as having "never had contact with anyone outside the tribe."
It's sad that they want to preach to them, not because they're convinced that they really do have the answer for eternal life and want to share it, but so that they can check off the last group of people of their list so the Rapture can happen. Their interests are entirely self-serving. It's sickening.
Seems some Christians haven't learned their lessons about forcing religion on people.
At some point I'm sure this tribe will have contact with outsiders. I can't only hope that their beliefs are treated with respect and missionaries are kept far away.
It did sound like the government officials down there are doing things right.
Amazon Jungle News Service- A village was sitting down to their communal meal when some outsiders came upon them. This greatly disturbed the elders, as it was believed they were the only people alive, among the monkeys, snakes, and electric eels. Now, the tribal shamans want to send a mission out into this outside world, to tell them of the god of the river and the god of the treetops. This will appease the god of the clouds. "We must find these unsaved folk who aren't saved, and tell them the good news of the god of the mountain," said shaman Emerald Boa.
Please send all parcels, postcards, correspondence, etc. to "The Girl from Ipanema." She will forward them accordingly.
There is about 100 lost tribes around the world (think I read that there could be up to 300!) that do not have contact with the outside world.
"A little off the topic, but did anyone see the article about an Indian Tribe that was discovered (apparently had never had contact with anyone outside the tribe). Maybe this was the last group of people that need to hear the Gospel. I'd like a mailing address please so we can get on with this!"
I'd laugh my ass off if they were a cannibalistic headhunting tribe. Either that or they had a religion that they would relentlessly try to gain converts to and would stubbornly refuse to listen to anything you say. There's nothing more amusing than one fundy trying to convert another...
"The world does not belong to you!"
@Princess Rot: Quoted for truth.
By the way, if these idiotic fundies are really serious about this, Chris Crocker (or a Chris Crocker look-a-like) should make another YouTube video, called "Leave the Native American Tribe Alone!" I have a feeling that the tribe will need it more, because at least Britney Spears can afford vaccinations and psychiatric treatments.
I pray that those natives have a taste for long pig, superior hunting skills, and large appetites.
Mailing address, yeah right. Try Saturday Morning Cartoonville.
am I the only one wondering why an isolated Brazillian tribe is being referred as Indians? Haven't we figured out that the Americas are not India yet?
I take it you're not American, then? Yes, it's factually incorrect, but the terminology has stuck. Stamping your feet about, trying to hold back the river of language seems to me to be a fruitless, exhausting, boring endeavor.
OH...*groan*
I was waiting for this. As soon as I read this story I KNEW the fundies were going to be all over this. They are going to do everything in their power to find these people and "witness to the sinners," "bring them to Jesus" or "win them to the LORD". They LOVE the fact that they will have the opportunity to be "heroes" and "martyrs".
These batshit crazy missionaries of different denominations will probably be tripping over each other in a race to get to the "heathen tribe."
I don't even have the heart to go read more of these ass clowns' posts. I will just get sick reading them.
This is probably being discussed in every evangelical church accross the nation.
image YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! FUNDIES! FIRE AT WILL!
Yeah. I'd like to see you preach to them when their immediate reaction to seeing something new is to shoot at it. Having said that, I'm sure they're nice enough people, just that they haven't seen technology beyond bows before, and as such probably thought it might kill them.
Its like the Andaman Islanders (A stone age civilisation that does not know how to make fire... Seriously. Humans who have lost/or never discovered the ability to make fire. Its very interesting)
They are of "interest" to the Christians because they have a flood myth. Amusingly the fact that they live on the borders of an active tectonic plate where tidal waves (and how! Krakatoa and the recent wave both hit the islands) occur does not appear to be relevant to the christians. They want to get their hands on them.
Its tragic. If they are not protected like the way we are now they will lose their identity. Its so easy for christians to convert these people because people don't understand that our technology is a miracle to them. To them 50 miles is a long distance. To us its a nuisance. To us a plane is just a transport device. To them its freaking magic.
Fundies are shocked to discover they haven't killed / pissed off royally ALL of the Native Americans.
Well, they would be if this lost tribe thing wasn't obviously bullshit.
Conquistador your stallion stands
And though I hoped for something to find
And though I hoped for something to find
You can't mail them anything, considering they're in the fucking jungle. And if you actually tried to preach to them in person, you'd be shot to the ground before you could scream, "Goddidit!"
While you're shipping bibles over to them, make sure to throw in some nike and pepsi t-shirts.
You know those kind of throaty, grunting, exhaling laughs? I just made one.
PROTIP: You may want to make sure that the people you plan on mailing things have things like addresses before asking for them.
But surely, not having heard the Gospel n'all, they will be morality free and existing in a perpetual state of murder, rape and dog eat dogness ? Each against his brother and therefore will not have the social cohesion required to build huts, manufacture weapons, hunt or do any of the other thing that would define them as a 'tribe', lost or otherwise.
I read an article on the BBC website that claimed that there were about 100 tribes in the world that had not been contacted.
If the Rapture Ready crowd heard that they'd probably have a collective seizure.
Better idea: Why not just go there and try to convert them yourself?
(oh please, please, PLEASE, let them be a tribe of cannibals...)
@Nutz
"am I the only one wondering why an isolated Brazillian tribe is being referred as Indians? Haven't we figured out that the Americas are not India yet?"
Many Amerindians refer to themselves as Indians. Mayhap we should explain to them that they don't live in India.
I'd like a mailing address please so we can get on with this!
It's amazing how many people still have little or no conception of the nature of any part of the world outside their own tiny local region. You might expect this of a feudal peasant prior to the industrial revolution and the dawn of modernity, but this is the twenty first fucking century! We've been to the moon and back, how can people remain so ignorant about our own goddamn planet?
These people WANT to be left alone. They're scared of helicopters and foreigners. The Brazilian government, in an act of wisdom, is not going to reveal the location of these people. They will be left alone.
And if any self-righteous, ethnocentric, overweening shithead of an evangelical missionary marches in on these people, deceiving them with "Creation Science" and "fear of Hellfire" nonsense...
At least his head on a spear will make a good warning for other such fuckwit Christards.
From further in that thread
"I knew that. Really, I did. Just tired, that's all. But I still think the timing of that story is noteworthy. I used to assume that there can't possibly be anyone on earth who hasn't at least heard of Jesus. I guess I was wrong."
You never find these fucking fundies saying "maybe I was wrong..." about anything. This poor sap better get itself to a Pastor, quick! He might have contracted sanity!
Oh, I needed a laugh. The sheer idiocy brings tears immediately following the laughter, however. Please get back to reality, RR fans!!!!
It is also possible that they haven't heard about Buddha his philosophy of atheism, so we're ahead of the game. The world hasn't had a chance to reach these people with its antichristian bias, so perhaps we will find their ears open to hearing the gospel. They probably have not heard about Christ yet, and so they haven't had time to develop a bias against His message or to be influenced by secular humanism.
Szena, I disagree with your theology. That's more an Arminian position. As a Calvinist, I believe that God leads His people to faith. If God has called a person to salvation, then He will find a way to get the Gospel into their hands and the faith into their heart. Perhaps God is starting to call this particular tribe to repentance; that would be awesome to see, wouldn't it?
Everyone else covered the tribe, so I'll address MessianicServant:
Calvinist = self-important douchebag who thinks he can do no wrong because he's one of the "elect" whom God chose at the beginning of time to go to heaven. Elitists always count themselves among the elite.
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