Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸TIL about the Piraha people of the Amazon, whose language makes it impossible to convert them to Christianity.
In fact, a missionary attempting to convert them in the 1970s ended up deconverting after experiencing their culture.
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There were the lies of Christianity, which infected western culture with the lies of colonization, which infected naturalists' minds with the lies of intellectual superiority, which infected modern scientists with the lies of scientific colonialism, all of which hid the fact that all along, many, if not most, of the tribes of the Americas were far more rationalist and empirical than Europe.
My experience of Buddhism is the same. At its core, Buddhism values truth based on empirical evidence. These are not ideas that were invented in the west, and the western scientific method is only one such method among many.
What is hopeful here is that after millennia of trying using all their technological might, western colonialists have failed to completely stamp these cultures out.
Ideas are alive, and they do not die so easily.