Best Posts in Thread: GOOD NEWS ... THE MORMONS FLEE THE COUNTRY :-)

I did not say they are a..holes. I respect religious freedom totally. I do not respect authoritarian, homophobic and ultraconservative communities not allowing their members a free mind. and I have no respect for missionairies that are running away at the first sign of a crisis. Jesus stayed and helped, as I heard. that's the benchmark - sorry, Mormons.

 

Yes I know the saying, "They came to do good, and they did well." But speaking of missionaries, ".. Established in 1901 as Silliman Institute by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, it is the first American school in the Philippines and the entire Asian continent. The university is named after Dr. Horace Brinsmade Silliman, a retired businessman and philanthropist from Cohoes, New York who gave the initial sum of $10,000 to start the school. .... For the first half of the 20th century, Silliman was run and operated by Americans. After the Second World War Filipinos began to assume more administrative positions, culminating in the appointment of Silliman's first Filipino president in 1952."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silliman_University

 

Perhaps they made the wrong call - be here on an isolated island or in the USA at this time and I would stay here (well, I have!).