Thursday, January 25, 2007

How did Christianity change this culture(Sawi)?

Obviously, there is nothing to refuse the affects of Christianity toward the Sawi culture. Christianity conspicuously changed the way of the Sawi people’s lives. Their way of thinking, behavior, and concept had been reversed. The Peace had truly come to the Sawi people through the acceptance of Christianity. For instance, the Sawi people gained the ability to forgive others which was inspired by the telling of the forgiveness of God through His Son, Jesus Christ. The Sawi people also learned how to trust God and let everything stay in God’s hand that they did not urge but wait for God’s answer. The superstition, which is one of the Sawi cultures, was also gone after the introducing of Christianity. Sawi eventually recognized the greatness of God through some miracles that the people accepted the Christianity as a genuine religion. The cruelty, savageness, and violence had been disappeared; whereas peace, harmony and joy had set in the people’s minds. Christianity significantly changed the behaviors of the people that the Sawi people now behave as if they are from the other modern world. They try to negotiate and discuss which is much different from when they just fought and killed each other which was very inhuman. Christianity taught them the moral and ethical lessons, making them get out of the evil and caged world. Sawi had been changed so much in a positive way since Christianity was introduced. Sawi people had earned the genuine peace, happiness, and amaze of life through the “Peace Child”.

2 comments:

Maia Bondy said...

I totally agree with you. After the Sawi people were introduced to Christianity, their way of thinking was reversed. At the beginning, the Sawi people had one way of thinking that could not have been changed. These people had so much superstition in the culture, that there had to have been some sort of miracle for the Sawi people to except Don Ricardson's faith as their own. Their behavior did change, in and ever so obvious way.
I love your thoughts on this subject.

African Globe Trotters. said...

There is a wonderful freshness to your writing Alan. Your ideas are good great. The sense of joy God instills in the Sawi is miraculous. Mrs.Mc