Boulders that speak no more
By: Thomas, John
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BookPublisher: Seminar Description: (740), Apr, 2021: p.35-44.
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SeminarSummary: Towards the end of the 19th century, inspired by the call of the American Baptist missionaries to put an end to idol worship and to demonstrate the power of the living god over the ‘lifeless’ spirit world, the local converts to Christianity in an Ao Naga village openly desecrated a boulder held sacred by the villagers. While some of them climbed on it and used it as a latrine, some others cut a tree that had grown out of it. – Reproduced
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Towards the end of the 19th century, inspired by the call of the American Baptist missionaries to put an end to idol worship and to demonstrate the power of the living god over the ‘lifeless’ spirit world, the local converts to Christianity in an Ao Naga village openly desecrated a boulder held sacred by the villagers. While some of them climbed on it and used it as a latrine, some others cut a tree that had grown out of it. – Reproduced
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