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Atheists & Agnostics

Ranting Randy

(251 posts) Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:17 PM Friday

Missionary goes to Amazon to convert, becomes atheist [View all]

* A Christian missionary meets a remote Amazon tribe to convert them, and, instead, they cause him to become atheist.

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Only a little here about the missionary's conversion but it is quite a story.

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Missionary goes to Amazon to convert, becomes atheist [View all] Ranting Randy Friday OP

It is Beautiful. It is sad. defacto7 Friday #1

Don't do what the video's protagonist did Warpy Saturday #2

I don't think I'd go to your Rousseau analogy defacto7 Sunday #5

I didn't say there was nothing to learn from them Warpy Sunday #6

I think your assessment is a bit unfair defacto7 Monday #7

Perhaps you need to watch the video again Warpy Monday #8

Perhaps. Thank you. n/t defacto7 Monday #9

It's a new version of an old story, and it keeps getting repeated because established theory tolerates no deviation DFW Sunday #3

Here's my suspicion defacto7 Sunday #4