http://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/2010/11/a-missionarys-deconversion-by-a-primitive-tribe.htmlDaniel Everett speaks of how his evangelizing to a South American tribe ended up changing him...
駐南美洲傳教士被褔音對象以生命影響生命，「反傳」致離教之精彩見證…
"The Pirahas' rejection of the gospel caused me to question my own faith. There was so much about the Pirahas that I admired: their quality of inner life, their happiness, their contentment. The Pirahas had built their culture around what is useful to their survival. My faith seemed a glaring irrelevancy in this culture. It was superstition to the Pirahas. And it began to seem more and more like superstition to me. I began seriously to question the nature of faith, of believing in something unseen. Sometime in the late 1980s I came to admit to myself that I no longer believed in any article of faith, or in anything supernatural. I was a closet atheist."
Daniel Everett's religious beliefs (from
Wikipedia):
Influenced by the Pirahã's concept of truth, his belief in Christianity slowly diminished and he became an atheist. He says that he was having serious doubts by 1982, and had lost all faith by 1985 after having spent a year at MIT. He would not tell anyone about his atheism for another 19 years; when he finally did, his marriage ended in divorce and two of his three children broke off all contact. However, by 2008 full contact and relations have been restored with his children, who now seem to accept his viewpoint on theism.
Alex's comment:
This missionary is introspective, honest, and courageous! For his deconversion, he did pay the big price of his family breaking up! Moving!
這位傳教士充滿基督的香氣，具備自省性、誠實、與勇氣！而他亦已為離教付上家庭破裂的沉重代價！很感人！
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