I've never bought the idea that there is any particularly altruism on behalf of Christian missionaries or aid workers. If they could do so without promulgating their beliefs, that would be a different matter. Instead it is just an opportunity to spread their beliefs on the vulnerable and uneducated (Christianity is only growing in third world countries). History has shown that such "altruism" has caused the annihilation of various cultures and races. The real objective of the individuals involved is to re-enforce and validate one's own beliefs by converting others, and score physiological brownie points with their "God" and fellow believers.
I find it intriguing that you decide your life path on what God "tells" you. You either hear God personally or you take direction from someone who claims they hear from God. People who claim that they "hear" God's word are very dangerous individuals indeed. The rest of us observe that they are merely acting upon suggestions from their own sub-conscious.
If people do receive messages from one God (and not their own sub-conscious), why do so many Christians get contrary messages (particularly about scriptural interpretation)?
How is this communicative relationship with a personal God verified? How does it differ from this scenario:
I have a personal pink pixie. Only I can see it and hear it, although others can have a pixie of their own, merely by believing. It helps to regularly associate with other people who believe in personal pixie's and to sing praises to the pixie. I communicate to the pixie through babble speak, or glossolalia, which only it understands.
Everything good that happens in my life is due to may magical pink pixie's influence (and I have experienced much good). Every time I narrowly avoid something bad happening, the pixie saved me. If something bad does happen in my life it is because my pixie is either testing me or because the pixie moves in mysterious ways, and this is never evidence that the pink pixie doesn't exist or assist me in my life.
I cannot just sit back in life and expect the pixie to provide, because the pixie helps those who help themselves. If I work harder, the pixie rewards me more.
The pixie heals me. I have been badly injured through sports many times and my rapid recovery (faster than the doctors predicted) is due to the pixie healing me. The pixie even heals me of common colds (in about a week) and sometimes stops me getting a cold from someone close to me. I have been diagnosed with serious conditions twice, but the pixie completely healed me without medical intervention (they weren't misdiagnosis at all).
You can have a personal pink pixie too. You merely have to believe.
Fellowship in a Fundie Christian church is all about mentally reinforcing an imaginary scenario.
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