Missionary goes to Amazon to convert, becomes atheist

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5. I don't think I'd go to your Rousseau analogy

with Everett's opinion or my own. He seemed pretty level minded. As for myself, I think we could learn a great deal from humans that are far removed from our failing modern culture. I'm not for pulling them into the 21st century at a whim anymore than I'm for us going back to the stone age. Sure, help them with sanitation, vaccines, other medical needs ... but television? Give me a break! I also surmise that the only reason they are being educated is so they can read the bible. That's how it usually works. And eventually they can become hard working members of modern society by slash burning the forest so they can raise cattle and plant corn for ethanol.