Missionaries - boiled baked or fried?

Let's see.... on a bed of baby rocket leaves with feta cheese and balsamic vinegar I think - and obviously a little chianti on the side!!

Me on top. You on the bottom. 'nuff said! LOL Actually an "Amen" would be nice..................

Eww...okay now that is enough to make this old girl a pure vegetarian and live on nothing but vegetation. That is true though. A lot of places didn't even hear about half the diseases or have them until people starting exploring their outer reaches.

I imagine that the closest I get to a missionary these days is to a Jehova's Witness. Not so long ago my partner and I were just leaving our old house, in a village with only two resident couples including ourselves. It was teeming down with rain, but we stopped when flagged down by well dressed couple in a car. They then proceeded to try and sell us the benefits of their religion for a good twenty minutes whilst we all got soaked. On that occassion I'd have liked my missionary boiled, then baked, then fried thanks, just to make sure it was 'done'. And that is completely disregarding how I feel about their beliefs, it's just for making me wet, cold and bored witless. However, I can't help but admire the determination, temerity and hides like elephants that these people have. Would you drive to a deserted village in the middle of nowhere in order to sell your beliefs to people who are blatantly trying to get away, all in the pouring rain? I wouldn't. I've never had a belief about anything that was strong enough and I do sometimes wonder what it must feel like to have a passion so strong.

I prefer fried...but baked is healthier!!!

In most of the poor and under developed countries there are bad impression about the missionaries.They are destroying the culture of the natives.Many ancient languages abolished.We can say the missionaries purposefully destroyed the local languages.The sreved as agent of the colonists.They helped to fulfill the imperialist designs of the coilonists.

Roasted on a spit I think is best. Apart from the things you mentioned they were also often followed by soldiers who had orders to take over the country and 'civilize' the inhabitants on behalf of some western nation or other.

I prefer mine running across the driveway in embarrassment if I have to choose. Really it's amusing to open the door to them half dressed and watch them turn undescribable shades of red before running off.

boiled, alive - sounds good to me especially Mormons

hehe. a full stomach was probably the only truly good thing they brought with them. it's sad to see indigenous tribal spirituality lost to the ruthless spreading of imported religions to those that don't need it. I think some people from religions do have the right motives, wanting to help people survive, but when you see more focus on obliterating peoples own religions, rather than helping them it's horribly sad. I mean why build a community a church when the money is better spent on a well?

Interesting to see this discusssion in the heading 'cooking' instead of something boring like politics or world history! I would have thought most of them would steam gently in the heat from their own hot air?

I'm of much the same view as you. I think that the people of these exotic and faraway places were probably doing just fine on their own without being subjected to all the brainwashing, and other unpleasant things that came with it. What business was it of these arrogant westerners to impose their views on everybody else, and to assume that their 'way' was superior to the established, much older ways of the indigenous populations. So many of these traditions, many of them peaceful and in harmony with nature, have been lost now. It makes me angry! (Thanks for the opportunity to rant about this..)

It's nice to know a missionary is not merely a position. I'm not sure I'd like to eat one - the taste of piety would probably choke one. I think it's an excellent idea for the African tribes to tuck in, though - should be more of it, great for the world hunger problem!

Hi p1key, Me thinks would like it with my chips,"pass the kitchup please" and feffinatly deep fried. Hugs. Tamara xxx

I like my missionaries QUIET! Go live among "heathens" if they wish, but shutup and teach by example. If the natives don't wish to convert, fine. If they do, fine. Just keep hands off the culture. Jesus said somewhere in the Bible that you can tell someone about the good news but if they don't wish to hear it, move on. He was indeed a very wise, holy man.

Missionaries need to be fried and eaten. All religious people need to be boiled and friend and eaten us. Banish religion from the face of the earth for lasting peace Jews keep fighting Arabs, Christians keep fighting Muslims, Hindus fight Muslims. it is all religions against one another. if missionaries are all finished three will be no religion and no conversion and no fights.

I suppose a bit of one might spice up a jacket potato. I'm partial to some fried liver but don't get it much as the OH is not keen at all. It's the same in many walks of life, of course. Well meaning folk who end up doing more ill than good. Live and let live is what I say.

Never been too big a fan of them since I always found it awful to impose religious views on others. However, a lot of missionaries have also done good work by helping the poor and those who needed help in other areas whether or not religion played a hand in it. That being said, fried is tastier, but less healthy. Still, I like the YUMMY, so I go with fried.