Five Christian Evangelists Thrown off a Boat


When atheists watch what some Christians do, there are a lot of eye rolls. One of them is when Christians think they need to evangelize in areas where there is hostility toward them. What is the point of risking lives to go there.

In Uganda, five missionaries were going to a remote area to start a church. Probably they would have arrived without incident had one or two of them not felt the urge to preach to Muslims during the boat ride. Some violent Muslims told them to stop. An argument ensued and five of the Christians were thrown off and drown. Why could they not just keep their views to themselves?

We all know why they could not keep quiet. In Uganda they had to preach. In the U.S. they have to pray before meetings, say the "under God" pledge, post the Ten Commandments in public places, put religious beliefs into law and refuse to perform their assigned jobs if it offends their religious beliefs. The preachers in Uganda are killing whackos but promotors of the faith in the U. S. are over the top in their own way.

Some years before Face Book I was on a list serve of pilots who owned the kind of airplane I owed. The purpose of the list serve was to talk airplanes and flying. It also introduced us to each other as we made plans for the annual fly-in. The organization is still going 20 years later but one guy at that time just about wrecked it. He could not stop evangelizing. We ask him politely at first and more forcefully later. His reply was always the same, "I am trying to save all of you from an eternity in hell. Do you realize how long eternity is? It's forever. If I can just help a few of you avoid it, I must." Now, the guy was helpless--he could not fathom that others did not believe him or anything about his faith. Eventually he started complaining about another group he had left because people were "unkind" to him. Of course, he left our group but not soon enough. 

There were more than five Christians on the boat where the murder occurred. They were the ones who reported it to authorities. Apparently, they were Christians but were smart enough to avoid the entire disaster. We need more Christians like them. 

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