Benefits of Christianity?


This rather crude missionary postcard from New Guinea seems to suggest that Christianity provides nothing but a positive influence on its converts. It equates non-christians with wild-haired savages whilst insinuating that Christians are model citizens. In reality, the balance sheet of Christian influence was a far more complicated equation with negatives as well as positives.


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by Stephen Luscombe