tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post5509766043235497246..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: More on the myth of the myth of the noble savageRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-4038659454154689382009-02-16T14:47:00.000+01:002009-02-16T14:47:00.000+01:00'When one Huron was asked why she refused to accep...'When one Huron was asked why she refused to accept the offer of eternal life, she characteristically replied, "I have no acquaintances there, and the French who are there would not care to give me anything to eat."'<BR/><BR/>I have somewhere heard that, when the Spanish were about to burn a native chief in the West Indies and a priest approached him to suggest that repentance would - eventually - win him a place in Heaven, he declined saying that he did not wish to go there as he might find Christians there.<BR/><BR/>I have also heard that Japan presented missionaries with the same cultural incomprehension of the concepts of sin and inherent failure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com