Why is it okay for missionaries to lie?

**HoreTore** · 07-12-2012, 02:08

Originally Posted by Montmorency

What he's saying is that sometimes people end up in a comatose state with very weak vitals, and can be mistakenly declared dead while in such a state; if and when they recover - especially if it's while in a morgue - it appears as though that individual has "returned from the dead".

As in, without explicit intent to deceive - when it's this sort of situation, at least.

So, that brings the missionaries up from "lying cheats" to "ignorant idiots". Assuming, of course, that they have no clue as to what's going on and turn to god to explain what they are too dumb to do(as well as being too dumb to seek help).

Now, I do not have educational statistics on western missionaries, but my impression is that they range from educated to very educated. Not ignorant. And their backers, the ones who read their reports, certainly contain a fair amount of highly educated people, including medical staff. And yet, knowing the truth, they still choose to spread the obvious lies.

Sorry, I'm sticking with "lying cheats" over "ignorant idiots".

**Husar** · 07-16-2012, 23:54

Originally Posted by HoreTore

So, that brings the missionaries up from "lying cheats" to "ignorant idiots". Assuming, of course, that they have no clue as to what's going on and turn to god to explain what they are too dumb to do(as well as being too dumb to seek help).

Now, I do not have educational statistics on western missionaries, but my impression is that they range from educated to very educated. Not ignorant. And their backers, the ones who read their reports, certainly contain a fair amount of highly educated people, including medical staff. And yet, knowing the truth, they still choose to spread the obvious lies.

Sorry, I'm sticking with "lying cheats" over "ignorant idiots".

You can explain your world however you want, freedom of belief applies to you as well, however dogmatic you want to be, it's okay.

Then again you may be a lying cheat sent by the devil, knowing very well that these missionaries fully believe what they say, yet portray them as evil fraudsters. Now that I think about it you couldn't possibly believe in that much human evil, after all you're a teacher and you should know a lot about humanity, so I'm going to stick with "agent of the devil" over "seriously concerned citizen".

**HoreTore** · 07-17-2012, 00:28

Does "agent of the devil" come with some sort of uniform?

If so, I'm definitely sold!

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 07-17-2012, 01:23

Originally Posted by HoreTore

Does "agent of the devil" come with some sort of uniform?

If so, I'm definitely sold!

Yup, naked except for a pair of goat-skin chaps.

**Kralizec** · 07-17-2012, 07:52

We're not hiring new staff at the moment, sorry.

If you're really interested I could suggest a few other jobs that might improve your chances in the future. We have a lot of former investment bankers on our payroll. There also used to be a lot of yellow journalists and some Tory politicians, but most of them were let go (into the lake of fire, that is) when we had to slash spending.