Sunday, December 4, 2016

Social Media Missionaries?!

"No matter what your vocation is, no matter what your role is as a Media Missionary, we are all called to live, pray, and spread the Gospel! Being part of the EWTN Media Missionaries is a perfect way to help us fulfill our calling from Christ to "make disciples of all nations" (Mt. 28:19) by use of the media. You'll find a wealth of resources to build you up spiritually as a modern day missionary!" - from  http://ewtnmissionaries.com/#sthash.9GkfmvHa.dpuf

It makes perfect sense that a media outlet that ascribes its mores to core values of the roamin catholic church and papacy would want to arrogantly assume....still....in this late date of 2016 C.E.....that their ideas and actions are necessarily big and bad enough to be universalized all over the world, in "all nations".  The only reason that it might make sense, though, is that the level of arrogance in the above statement is actually a normalized value within the larger conceptions of roamin catholicism and worse so in the values of christian organizations the world over and how they resonate with the larger conceptions and actions of European colonialism and exploitation.

Junipero Serra, genocidal predatory missionary who established and strengthened the anti-human mission system in what is now known as California.  Interestingly enough, the roamin catholic church considers him a valued missionary.  We must question the effects and outcomes of the arrogant, anti-cultural nature of christian missionary work in the world.


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