God: “look, dude, I protected you one time with that dang book. Don’t go back, mmkay?”

It’s also really insulting to Jesus, who didn’t have the easiest time with His own efforts. The idea that because you’re a believer means Jesus is your own personal magic Snuggie is gross. He had to go through every last thing, He warned His followers that the way is rough, nearly impossible. If people just decide…

Oh, well, in that case, let him rot.

Seriously? They shot arrows that pierced his bible before he went back to preach again. It doesn’t get more free will FUCK NO than that. 

ALl over the pacific and the Americas you hear histories of missionaries coming to islands and frontiers to civilize the natives. It is almost never a positive change, and is entirely bound up in colonization. I think this man had a romantic view of evangelizing that has no basis in reality. He was not there for the…

You have shown you hold more Christian values here in this post than many churchgoers I know, and certainly more than the young man in the article.

That’s not how it works. Additional visitors are far worse than one body.

No. Pathogens in his body are virtually certain to be dead now. New people with living pathogens all over themselves are a much bigger risk.

WTF? That article says that his death is “officially a murder case”...

First, the risk of a dead body infecting another person is incredibly small: https://publications.paho.org/pdf/dead_bodies.pdf

Good Lord was this story infuriating! First of all it was initially covered like look what this exotic prehistoric tribe did. If a foreigner speaking an unrecognizable language, bearing unrecognizable “gifts”, tried to illegally enter an American govt restricted area; he would’ve been vaporized in a hail of sniper…

Leave the asshole to bleach in the sun. He could have wiped out the people on the island, all because he was a narcissist who thought he was above the law and common decency. 

More importantly, no one should risk the Sentinelese’s health and lives trying to recover his body.

I’m not a christian, but I agree with Jesus’ original values of helping the poor and rejected of society. This D-bag could have done more in the name of his religion if he just stayed in the US and volunteered to help the homeless here. Christians have moved away from helping the poor to proselytizing to the poor.…

People lose their relatives all the time and don’t get to bury a body, when their relatives died doing absolutely nothing wrong. THAT is awful. THAT is unjust. Leaving this dude where the Sentinelese put him? Well, I guess he’ll get his wish to “live among them,” as he told his adviser for this whole thing.

The answer to the problem of recovering his body is simply that they don’t get to do that. Any effort to recover this man’s body will further disturb these people and put them at risk. This man broke the law, and selfishly and stupidly attempted to force his religion on people who do not want it. Sometimes committing…

Hubris kills.  No one should risk their life to recover his body.

Apparently he missed “pride” as one of the seven deadly sins.

Fuck this guy and fuck anyone that wants to retrieve his body. I’ve been fortunate to work with a variety of indigenous communities (in strictly non-religious contexts, and sometimes in direct opposition to the local religious nutjobs) and don’t feel a shred of sympathy for anyone that supported this selfish,…

Just leave him. You don’t get to act like a paternalistic colonizer and then get your body recovered through even more outside contact with a society that clearly wants none. He can rot.