do you really Believe we are damned?

I have to add in here a wonderful story I was told about a missionary in new guinea.This missionary didn’t speak the local language of the particular village ( not surprising since there are more languages spoken in new guinea than the rest of the world put together) so his initial attempts to communicate the concept of hell involved a small oil painting. Depicted in this painting was a great many fires, white people burning and a dark individual with a fork like spear. Now it took quite a bit of time to convince the locals that a bonfire and roasting white men was a bad thing. Quite frankly, they thought a great feast was in the making. The picture was hastily withdrawn!