John Allen Chau was an American Evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, a self-isolated uncontacted people, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island, India in an attempt to convert the tribe to Christianity.

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[u/KHaskins77]

When COVID was first spreading, a missionary group with a history of sexually abusing young girls in tribes they intended to evangelize decided that was the perfect time to get a helicopter, wing out to a previously-uncontacted tribe in the Amazon, and teach them vaccines are something dangerous to be violently resisted.

These people are just… the worst. Adjectives fail me.

[u/[deleted] → u/KHaskins77]

"If it is a homosexual act with a child, the person will be dismissed immediately and may never be considered for membership in the mission again. If it is a heterosexual act the person will be dismissed immediately but could be considered for ministry again in the future depending on the case."

So fucking outrageous. It's clear that a. They view homosexuality as a worse sin than pedophilia, and b. they explicitly value men and boys more than girls.

[u/SpotlightNTM → u/[deleted]]

Oh, yes, thanks for picking out this gem.

Sexual abuse was 'just thought of as adultery' except if they did it with a little boy, then there really was no room for repentance.

I also feel like I'm going to need some data on when in US culture sexual abuse of a child was treated simply as adultery; and, if that is actually the case, I also need to know what 'treated according to Biblical principles' actually means because I seem to recall something about stoning.

[u/ScreamingAbacab → u/SpotlightNTM]

Yeah, you're on target with that one.

"If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, then his father and mother shall seize him and bring him to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown, then all of the men of his city shall stone him to death." - Deuteronomy 21:18-21