Amazonian tribe turns missionary into atheist

A RIVETING and hugely satisfying report on BBC Radio 4 today tells the story of a missionary who was charged by an American missionary group with taking the Gospel to the little understood Pirahãs tribe in the Amazon - only to realise how ridiculous his faith in Christianity was.

... read about it at The Freethinker

H/T: August Berkshire

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