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BlueGrl2111/22/2018 12:45:19 pm PST

One more on John Alan Chau….thought this was perfectly stated. He had no business near that tribe.

(courtesy of Unfundamentalist):

“Normally we wouldn’t post a news story today, but since there is a narrative being put forward in Conservative Christian circles that this young man died a Martyr for Christ, we wanted to address it.

This isn’t martyrdom.

This is zealotry.

And a good example of how the arrogance and selfishness of Patriarchal religions cause them to force themselves on others without consent.

While it is right to have compassion for him and his family’s loss, he did something harmful and foolish.

It was not God’s will that he thought he was following; it was his own.

Too often this is true of religious people and this is the lesson: Do not mistake your own desires and your compulsion for God’s. Claiming martyrdom under circumstances like this is disrespectful to true martyrs.

He didn’t die because of his faith.

He died because of his pride and arrogance and foolishness. He made a bad decision. Natural consequences are not martyrdom.”