ELL: SIL's religion

[Lucas Husgen]

 According to a story in Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad the Summer Institute of Linguistics, which has fathered the Ethnologue, is not as unbiased as it might seem. As I understand it's firstly a Christian project, vising at the conversion into Christianity. Though it's fostering endangered languages all around the world, it only does so in order to promote the Bible in those languages, with sometimes disruptive consequences, because those sent out into the streets to peddle the Bible make an amount of money, way above the financial standards of their respective communities. The most capable of these peddlers are being sent to the States to have them discover that Christianity is the one and only true religion - through of course prosperity, making them look down upon their own background. So, finally, the work of SIL is vising at disrupting those selfsame societies which they purport to protect. What does the list have to say on this?

Best regards,
Lucas
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