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I went to Vietnam a couple times. If you hang out downtown in the city, you might get a random Jehovah's Witness or Seventh Day Adventist* try to chat you up. "Oh, we can't do missionary work out in the open, so we just do one-on-one conversations like this". Despite the lack of "Jesus saves, die sinner" signs in Hanoi, you can definitely find Catholic and Protestant churches in Vietnam.

The Western press likes to piss and moan about settler nation missionaries that go, without proper visas mind you, to spread their Western versions of Christianity to the DPRK, only to get deported. So am I allowed to enter a white people country without a visa to stir up trouble and expect no consequences???

I'm the furthest thing from an expert on Myanmar. I get everything I know from Burmese friends. But if you look into the minority people situation, many of them are being heavily proselytised by the worst of the Amerikan type. I don't want the Pat Robertson's the world anywhere near struggling people.

*I'm definitely not saying that JWs and SDAs are anywhere near the worst as Christian sects go.

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[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Christianity isn't a western religion, its western sects yes,but its origins are from the middle east

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you read the bible? It's written in English. Jesus spoke English when he wrote it

[–] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah but you have to consider that the current bible is mediated through the cultural reconstruction of the Catholic church. Various books discarded and translated into brand new meanings.

Many evangelical Christians will harp on about reading the King James version without ever considering that he changed and censored much of the translation that occured.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

King James believed British people were the decendants of the israelites

[–] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't see how this is incongruent with what I said.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I'm adding context to how diabolical king James was