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Missionaries are sometimes, fairly or not, criticised for evangelising without offering practical help, summed up by the above quote. The answer would seem to be to ensure that any religious literature taken to areas where there is a malnutrition or famine problem is not only edible but also compostable
and contains the seeds of food crops. Make the paper edible, i.e. rice paper. If rice paper isn't enough, make it from something else which is more nutritious. In some cases, impregnate the paper with relevant antibiotics and substances non-toxic to humans which kill the organisms associated with dysentery, depending on the situation. Print them with ink which is also nutritious. Include seeds in the paper which will germinate when the bible is discarded. Enable rehydration therapy by making them replace the appropriate substances in the human body when ground. Basically, just make the bibles as useful as possible for nutrition, medicine, compost and as a source of food crops.
Do the same for Gideon bibles and provide hotel guests with free food.
Bibles, other religious texts and ... a landrover ad
http://adsoftheworl...uide?size=_original
[jutta, Aug 04 2012]
Mudworms (Xenoturbella)
http://news.bbc.co..../nature/3170245.stm
[UnaBubba, Aug 05 2012]
[link]
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I wonder what it would be like to apply this same idea for all kinds of religious text. (e.g. Koran) |
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Waiter, this bible tastes a bit Muslim - have you got anything Catholic-flavoured? |
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This Idea probably won't be adopted by any actual missionaries. That's because they wouldn't want it to be possible for them to ever be in a situation where they might have to "eat their words". |
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I've always preferred the Orange Catholic Bible
myself. It makes for a refreshing citrus flavor. |
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That very name is linked to carrots. |
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Force feeding comes to mind. |
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I like the idea of being able to make some sort of salad out
of lies. |
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"Last night we dined on a fine missionary... flavoured
with a few testament leaves, a little Revelation and a
pinch of Lot's wife." |
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// I like the idea of being able to make some sort of salad out of lies. // |
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Sorry, the News of the World has shut down, but there are other News International publications that you might like to try. |
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Best take that one with a pinch of salt ... |
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@ ... @ ... @ .... @ .... @ ....@ .... |
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<bell in abandoned adobe church clangs in wind> |
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"Well, we have a bible, now all we need is some
brimstone." |
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Soft rock over heavy metal, then ? |
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Given the density of paper in one, they would
probably be best employed as fuel for cooking fires in
northern Africa, where dried dung is often used, to
the detriment of the user's respiratory health. |
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"he that breatheth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live...." |
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No, there's something not quite right about that ... |
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Breathing sulphur combustion by-products is not that
good for you. |
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... unless you happen to be an archaeobarcerium or a tubeworm that lives in the immediate vicinity of a deep-ocean hydrothermal vent. |
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Amazing, really. These life forms haven't evolved for billions of years, and they live in an environment of complete isolation, total darkness, crushing pressure and hot, toxic chemicals, and they can still hold up neatly printed signs saying "VOTE ROMNEY"... |
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Don't forget, Christians... you share 68% of your DNA
with mudworms. <link> |
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Christians are 100% like mudworms in having the same
damn clue about existence. |
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That was the implication I was inferring. |
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Also occurs to me that the OT could be kosher and the NT not. |
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what would a bible be made to taste like exactly?
Should it taste good or bad? |
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A whole new religion based on an edible holy book
could be formed, i feel an opportunity for a new
religion led by famous actors and dignitaries is at
hand it would be unstoppable especially if there was
a diet version available. |
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Yes, that should definitely be done. Maybe a book based on a finely sliced loaf. |
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//Missionaries are sometimes, fairly or not, criticised for evangelising without offering practical help// |
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Usually by nonmissionaries who offer no help at all. |
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Non-missionaries who, like the missionaries, have no
flavoursome sacred texts to proffer. |
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If the OT touched the NT it would no longer be kosher. |
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* Homer Simpson drooling sounds * |
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We just need to get some old aged people to endorse
daily bible eating. |
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Dunno about that [Rayf]. I help with supply of
wells
and water filtration for villages in Bangladesh
(Major
problem with arsenic in groundwater there). I'm
also
about as anti-missionary and anti-religious as
anyone
I've ever met. |
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I particularly like the story told by Sam Clements
about the missionary who visited an Innuit tribe
to bring them Christianity. |
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After he explained about the concept and the fact
that the tribe's leaders now knew about the need
to atone for their past sins... that they would
have to embrace it to save their souls... because
they now
knew about this new religion... , one of the
leaders
said to the missionary, "What the hell were you
thinking, telling us about it? If we'd stayed
ignorant of it we'd have been looked after as
innocents. Now we have to change our entire
lives because you couldn't keep your mouth shut." |
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I'm well aware that there a host of exceptions. But like humanity in every other situation, the overall level of criticism seems to outpace the action. |
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Well isn't that the function of criticism, to cause some sort of dissonance in actors to prevent action? |
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I'm saved and my life is graciously extended every time someone converted to the law books of the civic code, operation of the vehicle, and a rational system of thinking, and a careful and responsible attitude about others applies their brakes at an intersection. |
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My point was that missionaries, who in my direct and indirect experience do provide a great deal of practical assistance in the moder era, take a lot of ribbing from critics, many of whom provide no assistance to these same places. |
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Really, I regard much of the religious satire here as fruit that hangs precipitously close to the underside of the bridge. |
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Religious people form organized social groupings that independent critics usually do not. If I could verify as true the existence of god or the soul then I could be authentically religious but because each of the things religion presents are imaginary I can't help but conclude religious people help eachother argue over imaginary things. |
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I will now read of intersubjectivty, slathering the pages in a rich creamy sauce, as I prepare them noodlelike. |
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Ah, now noodles are another matter entirely... |
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//Religious people help eachother argue over
imaginary things// |
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On a tangentially unrelated note, a formerly rational
colleague of mine, having escaped unhurt from an
horrendous car crash, claims that he has discovered
God, and that God has told him to work to unite
Muslims and Christians. I pointed out to him that,
surely, religion was the main thing dividing them in
the first place. He did not take this kindly. |
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Is he sure God didn't say "untie" ? |
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Maybe the dog wanted him to untie Charity Tins I with mails. |
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He was pretty adamant about the "unite" part. I
also understand that god spoke to him, rather than
texting or emailing, so the odds of a typographical
error are slim. |
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