On 8/31/06, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... in new guinea... "We don't eat humans, we only eat khakhua."
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2006/september/cannibals.htm
Heh! I am tangentially reminded of a documentary I watched on Easter
Sunday at the San Francisco Film Festival some years ago. It was a
film documenting the competition for saved souls among various
evangelical churches that were courting once-cannibalistic tribes. It
was hilarious to watch the chief of a hill tribe compare and contrast
the strengths and weaknesses of the spirits they used to worship
against this Jesus guy.
Quoting from a website about the film:
"For inanity from both sides of a question, there's a wealth of it in
Thomas Balmes' colorful yet maddening "The Gospel According to the
Papuans" (L'Evangile selon les Papous), charting the conversion of a
Papua New Guinea tribe to Christianity. The tribe's elders are as daft
as the missionaries, anxious to convert since the old gods "didn't
bring us anything new.""
Thaths
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