Do you also find it hard to feel sorry for missionaries when they get killed and eaten?

No I don't feel bad. I think the only time I'd feel bad is if they genuinely were in their own religious institutions and were solely targeted for being missionaries but this is different.

I remember a story about a missionary killed by the Sentinelese people but I remember learning their background. They basically learned to be hostile because several people tricked them and used them as slaves. They first learned to be hostile towards outsiders when colonialists came over and forcefully took an elderly man, a woman and four children.

All of them got sick, the two adults died and the colonialist returned the two sick children to the tribe so now they just kill outsiders.

I am not sure if this is the reason why but many historians think this is likely the case. There's really no going back.

It feels colonial

Also to add to my further response, it's very insulting to be honest. It's just really culturally insensitive when you have others lording over you about how their religion is better than yours when the things that make up a person are so complicated. I do believe Christians or Catholics don't remember refer to Islands untouched by Christianity as devil islands or something to that extent.

But I mean that's insulting isn't it? To be regarded as something evil and vile. Like personally I would take offense.

That got what's coming to them. It pales in comparison to what the invaders ended up doing to them.

Missionaries do die. Sometimes they go places where the people recognize the threat. And the threat is extinguished. Totally understandable. And not exactly unwise.

Actually, I don't feel sorry. If we are talking about that kid that got killed on that island off the coast of India, then I believe he was asking for trouble and he found it. We need to start learning to leave each other alone, especially the people who no nothing of the modern world. I mean what do we have to offer them that they truly need, microwaves, fast food, and credit card debt?
Leave them alone and lets get back to talking to each other and solve our problems.

Yea its there own fault forcing beliefs on others i kinda hope they get canalbalized.

Oh yeah, if someone tells me my brliefs are wrong, I'll like totally bash their head in, perfectly rational response.

It's the same logic as say, primitive blasphemy laws.

Lol right?

These people literally have it coming

Wow that's something that happens ??

Who are we talking about here?

Well, especially since the Bible says that people who don't know about Jesus can still get into heaven if they just behave themselves. So then why tell them about him?

i might be behind the curve on this one so feel free to correct me. isn't the intention of their sacrifice to inspire others to follow? the circumstances of their death could make followers consider them as martyrs(?) for believers, i don't think it's pity that they feel about them, more like worship? as a non-believer, i really think it's pathetic to waste your life this way.