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Originally Posted by MarchHare
He was obviously being sarcastic by employing the exact term the very Christian missionaries you're defending used to describe their targets of conversion in "uncivilized" countries decades ago. Take a look at this article from the New York Times, circa 1908, to see what he was getting at:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...669D946997D6CF |
I never defended 'any' sort of religious work. I defended the idea of 'giving'...and being helpful to those in need.
I don't give a crap about some article from 1908...this is almost 100 years later...and I should imagine we'd be more civilized and not refer to someone less fortunate than us as 'savages.'