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Akha Chronicles An Akha Theology? The problem of missions and
truth What is the truth? What do we believe? What should we be doing? Missionaries often accuse me
that I am anti God. No, I just don’t believe like they do. But I have often wondered
why they approach the Akha community in the way
they do. Let us say that we believe
in Jesus Christ. Well from what I learned of Jesus, I sure would be trying to
help the Akha community, not trying to destroy
their identity. Ok, any community can learn more compassion, can take deeper
care of each other, and this is certainly the teachings of Jesus. But one
doesn’t see this getting taught in the villages either. More than
likely greed and Christian capitalism is being taught as the gospel, how to
get more for yourself. The teachings of Jesus are
not inappropriate to Akha life. But Christianity as
we know it in the mission mind, certainly is. Bring
up race, bring it up immediately, black people in
the west, in So in a few words, if the Akha believed in what Jesus taught, what would it look
like, and where would it take them. Greater care to their own
communities, learning how to better protect their identities, not the total
surrender that the missionaries call for by vilifying everything that it
means to be Akha.
The Akha talked of this, how Paul Lewis was
expert at showing just enough of the Akha to shape
an opinion that they were bad people, deficient people. End Have a comment or question? Like to know
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