ELL: SIL's religion

[Lakhan Gusain]

I strongly support Lucas Husgen's view about SIL.
Lakhan Gusain



>From: "Lucas Husgen" <lhusgen at kirogi.demon.nl>
>Reply-To: endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au
>To: <endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
>Subject: ELL: SIL's religion
>Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:56:56 +0200
>
>  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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