Journal Pages

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008

Page: 149

Quote: "They do not understand," said some of the elders. "but they will understand when they go to their plot of land tomorrow morning." And they dispersed.

This quote struck me as amusing. The missionaries asked for a plot of land, and had not known that it was in the evil forest. The elders told each other that the missionaries cannot comprehend the land in the evil forest, but they will in the morning. The time where the gods struck against the missionaries never came, and they received many new converts after the specified market weeks. They did not know the curses and spirits that lived in the forest, and they did not care. When they proved the idols and gods wrong, they were highly known and loathed. Many of the elders thought the gods to be weeping at such misfortune of Christianity. This new religion was breaking up the clansmen, and tearing families apart.

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008

Page: 156

Quote: "Let them laugh," said Mr. Kiaga. "God will laugh at them on the judgement day. Why do the nations rage and the peoples imagine a vain thing? He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision."

Mr. Kiaga played a part in missions. Traitorous to their own religion clansmen spoke with him about other people laughing at them. Mr. Kiaga told him to let them laugh, that god will laugh at them on judgement day. Mr. Kiaga strongly believed in what he was doing, and he thought that he was doing the right thing. In invading these people and converting them, he broke bonds between the people and started what would cause death all around. The clansmen wanted to start holy wars, or go to war. They wanted death to the others, so that their religion may be superior once more. All wanted power, and none wished for approval. Government was being established and the traditions and customs of the clansmen were crumbling at the people's feet.