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Amazon Women Have It Best

Thu, 04/16/2009 - 14:13
Submitted by Carlin Ross

I'm moving to the Amazon: no marriage, no divorce, no funerals just sexual freedom, fun, and music.  Sold!

Missionaries have been preaching to the Pirahãs for 200 years and have converted not one. Everett did not know this when he first visited them in 1977 at age 26. A missionary and a linguist, he was sent to learn their language, translate the Bible for them, and ultimately bring them to Christ.

Instead, they brought him to atheism. "The Pirahãs have shown me that there is dignity and deep satisfaction in facing life and death without the comfort of heaven or the fear of hell and in sailing toward the great abyss with a smile."