And to think that so much of the missionary impetus is just Christians competing among themselves for whose specific sect will dominate.

I want to asked an acquaintance why his church sent missionaries to a South American country that was all but 100% Christian anyway, and had been since European colonizers forced Christianity on the populace with violence.

"Oh," he said. "They're not Christians, they're Catholic, and we want to save them from going to hell."

My eyes are rolling now almost as hard as they did then.