Love is nice, but a love that can destroy your culture within a very few short years is not necessarily a good thing. They aren't being asked to contribute, they are being coerced to convert.
I have a lot of respect for all the good missionaries of any faith do to help people, however, I have a real problem with the strings often attached to such help. An example would be requiring people to attend Christian services in order to get help (food, medicine, education, etc.). This kind...
Well, I haven't considered myself Southern Baptist since 1984, but, I would have to say that it was a decision made by a group of men a few hundreds years ago to include this tradition in the Southern Baptist church. To them, it was meant as a symbol in line with Jesus' telling his disciples to...