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panjul
04/08/03 at 23:50:44
Wow... these people are really dishonest...look at their tactics. How can you propose to say that you are working towards bringing people to the "truth" by lying and disinformation? What an irony.

GUERRILLAS FOR GOD
John Dicker, Colorado Springs Independent, 4/3/03

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The air raid sirens, the steady ratt-a-tatt-tatt of machine gun fire, the swoosh of fighter planes and the occasional bomb have been constants for the last half-hour. The searchlights of a rebel foot patrol shines around the perimeter of the box and the group's whispering ceases...

Welcome to Mission Training International's hostage exercise, the watershed experience of a three-week missionary training program. Here, 800 missionaries a year from around the country are trained in language skills and cross-cultural preparedness to travel overseas to spread the word of Christ...

Mission Training International's president Steve Sweatman likens its hostage exercise to a "Scared Straight" program for missionaries.

Currently, an estimated 41,000 Christian missionaries are working in 230 countries around the world, according to The Mission Handbook published by the Billy Graham Center...

Colorado Springs has long been recognized as a stronghold for evangelical Christians and their various political arms. And just as these organizations have been vocal players in a domestic culture war, they're also agents in an international struggle, one waged peacefully, if not forthrightly, for the souls of the world's least evangelized people: the predominantly Muslim population of the 10/40 window.

Long a buzzword in missionary circles, the 10/40 window denotes the part of the globe between the 10th and 40th parallels that includes southern Asia and northern Africa...

However, critics contend that evangelical missionaries are hardly the innocent victims of theocratic repression. By proselytizing where it is forbidden, missionaries like former Taliban-held hostages Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer break the laws of their host countries.

By entering as aid workers, English teachers or business people, they carry out their mission under false pretenses...

Other models involve "contextualization," where missionaries adapt their message in a culturally sensitive fashion, like praying on mats and leaving shoes off in a place of worship. Some missionaries like the Arizona-based Frontiers even claim to be Muslim, as the word literally means "one who submits..."
Re: GUERRILLAS FOR GOD
bhaloo
04/09/03 at 01:29:18
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Yes they are very dishonest.  And Muslims need to wake up to the reality of who these people are and their deviant agenda.


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