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Would I be wrong in saying the US government sponsors in a similar fashion Christian missionaries albeit tacitly?


Then, there was the weird day when I learned that a local Baptist church was sponsoring a missionary expedition to darkest Rio de Janeiro, in order to introduce Christianity to the heathen Catholics.

No, literally. I am not joking. This is not a metaphor.


Sounds very Baptist.


Yes, because there are no Western-financed Christian missionaries operating in Saudi Arabia.


Right, but what about some part of the third-world?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith-based_foreign_aid


Yes, you would be wrong in saying that. Really, where would that idea even come from?



"The neutrality of this article is disputed." Man, no kidding. And there's an enormous difference between supporting an aid organization that is religiously based, and opening actual mosques and employing imams.




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