<[email protected]> wrote: >I think Lew was referring to their "mission" to deliver bibles that >was > mentioned in some news reports. That was given as a reason they > were in the > area on their own... as I recall. Lew? ------------------------------------- The local news folks had a field day yesterday keeping their "breaking news" stories updated.
Interviews with friends, yacht club members and their parish priests helped to flesh out the background. There was a definite missionary zeal driving their round the world sail. They had taken advanced religious studies leading to an advanced degree for the man. They carried bibles in several languages to pass out to the "natives" as they traveled. Whether this zeal influenced their decision to beard the lion's den so to speak, by traveling alone directly into a known fundamentalist Muslim part of the world with it's known distain of Christianity will remain unknown, but IMHO, it had to have some influence on their decision to sail directly into pirate infested waters. Lew _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
