Good god. I feel bad for them on two fronts.
- That’s a brutal way to die and at a young age.
- They were so delusioned by religion that they put themselves in danger to spread around ancient mythological texts to random people.
In no way is religion worth the events.
A lot of victim blaming in this thread.
I don’t agree with their theological views, and I don’t love that indoctrination is so often tied to humanitarian efforts.
But these are people who were trying to help out children in the middle of the second worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now, and the one that very very few people are giving much attention to as the other dominates news cycles and
most of the Western world has just written off Africa as a whole(oops). (Also, I think this may be the only story about Hati on Lemmy in recent history, in fact).They didn’t ‘deserve’ getting brutally murdered for sticking around and not abandoning the children’s schools and homes they spent the past decades cultivating.
They did a lot more to help people than I ever have, even if a key factor in their doing so was what I might consider delusional thinking.
And so even if I’m not a fan of some aspects of their lives, I respect what they did do, and think it’s a bit fucked up to be making light of their deaths.
I’m surprised myself at the amount of people wishing death onto others throughout this community. It’s definitely weird to me.
If you want an unsettling thing to think about, look into Calhoun’s rats.
Social media has essentially overcrowded our functional distance with one another.
You could be on a ranch with no one around for miles, and yet you have hundreds if not thousands of other people are directly interacting with you giving and competing for dopamine hits.
And just like the rats we now have people not leaving their domiciles, being apathetic, hedonistic, etc. We’re mentally falling apart because we’re just too overcrowded.
“Tankie!” “Fascist!” “Heathen!” “Religious nut!” “Zionist!” “Antisemite!”
(Eventually the rats end up eating each other.)
Yet here we both are. That dopamine drip sure is nice…
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It was all a part of God’s plan. God works in mysterious ways. Jesus pulled the trigger.
Surprise Side Jesus
We jest, but they really do believe that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Elliot
I’m sorry but you’ve got to read the room.
God’s plan
I guess you don’t have to go all the way to the Indian Ocean to be an idiot missionary that gets yourself killed…
The family should file a civil lawsuit against the church.
Suprise griefer jesus!
I respect the work they were trying to do, but like… everyone was saying to GTFO of Haiti nearly a year ago. It’s not worth your life.
I don’t respect the work they were doing. Shoving the Bible down people’s throats isn’t a nobel cause.
I don’t, keep your religious beliefs to yourself or fifo
