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American 'killed in India by endangered Andamans tribe'

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Re: American 'killed in India by endangered Andamans tribe'

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Post by joshstrange »

z3phyr wrote: post #2

He went to a quarantined area just to proselytize. These are endangered tribal who have remained practically un-contacted for thousand of years. As someone who is not very familiar with western religions, can anyone explain the rational behind such acts?

> western religion

> rational

404 Error Not Found. But seriously you aren't going to find it. Very simply: They believe they were put on this earth to serve a purpose and that god will protect them and when he doesn't it was all part of his plan.

Re: American 'killed in India by endangered Andamans tribe'

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Post by drdeadringer »

> "It's a difficult case for the police," says Mr Bhaumik. "You can't even arrest the Sentinelese."

I'm interested in knowing how they word the "case closed" stamp on cases like this. Is there a special corner case selection for things like this? "Reason, Other: Sentinelese" or similar.

Re: American 'killed in India by endangered Andamans tribe'

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Post by dragonwriter »

z3phyr wrote: post #2

He went to a quarantined area just to proselytize. These are endangered tribal who have remained practically un-contacted for thousand of years. As someone who is not very familiar with western religions, can anyone explain the rational behind such acts?

> As someone who is not very familiar with western religions, can anyone explain the rational behind such acts?

(note: you probably mean “rationale”, not “rational”.)

Universal proselytization is generally a command of (most schools of) Christianity, and seen as a service to the people at which it is directed since the faith is seen as essential (or at a minimum beneficial) to salvation.

(I understand that nearly the same thing is true in Islam.)

Re: American 'killed in India by endangered Andamans tribe'

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Post by z3phyr »

drdeadringer wrote: post #4

> "It's a difficult case for the police," says Mr Bhaumik. "You can't even arrest the Sentinelese." I'm interested in knowing how they word the "case closed" stamp on cases like this. Is there a special corner case selection for things like this? "Reason, Other: Sentinelese" or similar.

They are going to arrest the fishermen who took the man to his death. I just hope that man was not infected in any way..

Re: American 'killed in India by endangered Andamans tribe'

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Post by celticninja »

z3phyr wrote: post #2

He went to a quarantined area just to proselytize. These are endangered tribal who have remained practically un-contacted for thousand of years. As someone who is not very familiar with western religions, can anyone explain the rational behind such acts?

Its basically one of the most selfish things a religious person can do. They spend their time trying to get people top believe in their god, so that they benefit personally because it makes god happy with them. They don't help people just to help them, there is an underlying reason which is the personal benefit of the preacher. This guy was no different.

Re: American 'killed in India by endangered Andamans tribe'

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Post by celticninja »

drdeadringer wrote: post #4

> "It's a difficult case for the police," says Mr Bhaumik. "You can't even arrest the Sentinelese." I'm interested in knowing how they word the "case closed" stamp on cases like this. Is there a special corner case selection for things like this? "Reason, Other: Sentinelese" or similar.

Death by misadventure. (if we want to be polite about it)
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