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Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"

Priest: "No, not if you did not know."

Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
--Annie Dillard

I always found this an intriguing concept.

When I was a little child I asked my pastor the same question and he gave the same answer.

So I said, "It sounds like we should quit sending missionaries."

He did not have a good answer. The real answer, of course, is that we make converts to get more and more people putting money in the collection plate.....thus we increase our financial power, our influence and our nation's hegemony.