Christian Missionary Deconverted by Tribe (proteanview)

Pirahã tribe of Brazil returns Christian Missionary, Daniel Everett, to atheism

More on the Pirahã tribe & linguist, Daniel Everett - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Spzjh9QgA

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726391.900-interview-out-on-a-limb-ov...

http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/dlevere/

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=545

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_colapinto

http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/04/15/18:41:01/

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[jmcg02908]

Those tribal people are not the only ones who do not want to hear any more about Jesus.

[jlause421]

Christians use fear to scare people into conversion. The fear of Hell. Why shove your beliefs down others throats promising happiness if those who you're trying to convert are already happy? fuck missionaries and their destroying of culture. Christians worship the word of King James. It's not even the matter of believing in what can't be seen, it's using your brain and common sense with the aid of science. get real. grow up and face life with responsibility.

[atillawith]

"she killed her self haha thats stupid" when he said that i nearly fell backwards laughing haha.

[Morkindie]

@Outd00rFishing Look up "No true Scotsman."

[Outd00rFishing]

@burkerow PART 4: to close... Today, from what I went through, and from what God showed me through prayer, I can repeatedly tell you with boldness that you were never a Christian. The only way to God is through Jesus the son. I know that we as men do not even want to grasp the idea of God in our lives... but that is overcome through Jesus, any sin, as simple as it sounds, it is all sin! If you even had one spec of faith, based on what you've been told, you would be on your knees alrdy

[Outd00rFishing]

@burkerow Part 3: ...the fact is this. Being a Christian is when your life shows that fruit. When man is born, we know nothing but sin. We love it too. The greed, the money, pride, adultery at heart (lust for women), etc. Pedophiles and murderers were no different than who I was. I practiced sin not because I wanted to, but because I loved it. I couldn't even imagine living without it because it was so great in my life! It is only the supernatural event that God can do to change you...

[Outd00rFishing]

@burkerow PART 2: ... because in my life, I grew up knowing the language. I was preached the love, the gospel, the truth, etc, but I never met the creator. BUT when God touched me with his spirit, an addicted worthless failure, it was the equivalent of putting me in a body scanner and cleansing the junk out of me in spiritual form. My desires were killed with one prayer, in one second, I could profess the name of Christ with more boldness than ever before! cont...

[Outd00rFishing]

@burkerow You were never a Christian. I'm not saying this for the sake of hatred because I guarantee that if you had met the creator you would never say anything like what you just wrote. There are hundreds of people that professed they were Christian and know not God. I firmly believe that if you even spent 80yrs of your life being an atheist and God truly did the good work in you, you would be transformed in an instant! I say this to you because I did the same thing in my life...

[burkerow]

@Outd00rFishing "You only get one chance in this life."

I was a Christian for the first 30 years of my life. The next 20, I was agnostic. Once I made the commitment to atheism, I've never been happier.

Now I live my life honestly and as if it's the only one I have, because it it.

You are wrong, there is no this life and that life. There's only this life.....live it!

[burkerow]

@Outd00rFishing "Buddha can not do that because he isn't real."

First; I'm not Buddhist. I did study Buddhist philosophy during a time when I was in my own depths of despair and found it to be more helpful than Christianity.

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old, seek what they sought. Each of us must find our own way and in our own time."

It is usually a devastating loss that brings most of us to our knees, and if we're strong we use loss to grow into mentally mature adults.

[burkerow]

@Outd00rFishing Pedophilia is not a sin anymore than murder is a sin. These things you call sin cause harm to others and to a civilized society and ultimately to oneself; that's what makes them wrong.