Thursday, March 15, 2012

Missionaries

Motives: The motives of Missionaries was to go around and spread the word of their religion and try to convert people to this religion. They wanted to get as many people to convert as they could using a non-violent system of spreading the word (except Islam).
Christianity: Believed that if people were not Christian, then they would go to hell so they thought that they were helping everyone.
Islam: They pretty much forced people to convert and they wanted more followers for political reasons.
Buddhist: Just want the world to be peaceful and for everyone to accept everyone. They want diversity and this is more of a polytheistic notion.

Methods: The methods of Missionaries was going to different places, such as Africa, Asia and America to help spread the word of their religion. The government also played a role in the missionary’s work to get people to convert. Even though they were not always violent, they tried to get people to think that the religion they are promoting is the only religion that god will approve of.

Differences: Buddhist missionaries promote the diversity of different people; a polytheistic ideal. They just wanted peace between all people. The Christian and Islam missionaries wanted people to convert for reasons that had nothing to do with actual religion. They wanted people to convert because of political reasons.

5 Rules
1)aggressive and forceful
2)Convert or die
3)Take advantage of your power
4)Dont limit your boundaries
5)No men left behind

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