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Christian Missionary Deconverted by Piraha Tribe.

  • 07-12-2009 2:09pm
    #1
    Turtwig
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    Wow,

    When I was younger I always thought that the so called "wild" tribes were inferior to us,believed in crazy Gods and other bizarre stuff. I saw no problem with missionary work and never really anticipated that there would exist entire cultures where there was no believe in a God of any sort. Funny how your world view can change.:)

    The video does seem to be missing audio around the 5:43 mark.:(


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  • #2
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    This has been mentioned before here I swear, but I can't find anything!

    Very interesting story, though.


  • #3
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Malty_T wrote: »
    I saw no problem with missionary work and never really anticipated that there would exist entire cultures where there was no believe in a God of any sort.
    Cultures which, by-and-large, no longer exist any more, or at least certainly not as they once did, since they've been steamrolled by the cultural force that is modern religion using modern advertising methods and techniques. One can only speculate about the richness of all the other cultures, ideas, worldviews, myths that have been eradicated.

    Of what Everett reports, the culture of the Piraha is weirdly different from ours. More on Everett and the Pirahãs here, a short slideshow of the tribe here and the original New Yorker article which spun Everett and the Pirahã into the mainstream is here.

    His book Don't Sleep, There are Snakes which describes his twenty years amongst the Pirahã is excellent and was in Hodges-Figgis bookshops back in May, so it should still be possible to get a copy easily enough.


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