The only thing I can hope for is just maybe, MAYBE, the religious will learn something from this. Especially that little part in my Fourth Commandment of Humanity...

“You shall respect the right of ALL persons to believe whatsoever they wish to believe; even if contradictory to your beliefs. You may discuss beliefs; however, forcing your beliefs onto others is condemnable.”

In my opinion, this incident is the perfect example of attempting to force his beliefs onto others.

Also reminds me of Richard Dawkins' quote from The God Delusion:

“People of a Religious Absolutist bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they wish to be true.”

NOTE: All extra emphases are mine.

rmfr

@Cyber Re: "I don’t think he deserved what is tantamount to the death penalty."

While I agree that the guy may not have "deserved" to die for what he did, the fact remains that he was stupid for doing what he did. And when people do stupid things, they have no right to complain when bad things happen as a result. Personally, I know I have done MANY monumentally stupid things during the course of my life. Granted, some of those stupid things were done as a matter of "necessity" in order to accomplish an important task the needed to be completed and no other options were available at the time. However (much to my chagrin), I freely admit a vast majority of the stupid stuff I did was strictly of my own foolish choice for the purpose of personal "entertainment" or as a means of trying to "impress" others. And I did those things despite various warnings from others at the time. Heck, in many cases, even my own brain was telling me, "Hey, dumb-ass! This is stupid! Don't do it!" Frankly, I should have died many times over with some of the ridiculous stunts I pulled over the years. But I was lucky, and often walked away without a scratch, or at the most with minimum to moderate damage. Be that as it may, if I HAD been killed while doing any of the stupid stuff I performed, then - as far as I am concerned - there would have been nothing "tragic" about it. I would have simply been another idiot who died while doing something he should not have been doing. Period. And I would have totally expected to get spoken of in exactly that fashion. If anything, my death in such circumstances could possibly even help save others. Why? Because people could point to me and tell their friends/family, "Hey, don't be like THAT idiot.".... *chuckle*.... Sure, learning from your own mistakes can be very beneficial. But I believe learning from the mistakes of others can be of equal or greater value. Therefore, I find it very difficult to feel bad or sad for the guy.

Let's consider another scenario, however. Let's say we have a guy who simply loves to explore and is basically a person who enjoys being out in nature and seeing new places. And this guy is on a canoeing expedition in the area of that tribe, but somehow has zero knowledge of their existence. And he would gladly avoid them had he been told/warned about them. So, with no knowledge of the tribe folks, the guy rows up to the beach and gets out of the canoe to look around a bit and maybe set up camp for the night. Innocent enough, right? Then, out of nowhere, without any warning, the guy is hit by multiple arrows and dies, because the tribesmen are simply defending their home, as is their right. Even though the guy was not there to do any harm, the tribesmen have no way of knowing that, so they are not at fault. And the guy is not at fault because he was not aware of the danger. Now, to me, THAT is what I consider "tragic". It was a simple case of misunderstanding resulting in the death of an innocent man, so - yes - that would be sad and unfortunate to me. At the most, the guy maybe should have researched a bit better before starting his trip, but - again - honest mistake. On the other hand, that Missionary guy was FULLY aware of the danger involved and had been warned multiple times to stay away from the area. Furthermore, it was even ILLEGAL for him to go there, yet he seemed to believe the law did not apply to him. And his full intentions for going there was to try to indoctrinate a small group of isolated people to believe the same things he believed. Bottom line: STUPID. And I dare say a considerable amount of arrogance and self-entitlement. Therefore, once again I find it incredibly difficult to feel sad or bad for the guy. Sure, I do agree it is sad (and disturbing) there is a system in our world that is so incredibly effective at brainwashing so many people to that extent. Nevertheless, at some point people (especially grown adults) have to accept the consequences for their own actions/choices. As far as I am concerned with the missionary dude, it was a "Mission accomplished" for Natural Selection.

Don't forget the native peoples had very bad interactions with strangers in the past.

@Cog I had to stop watching after about 20 seconds, because it gave me too many flashbacks of those cringy, ridiculously loud songs that I would have to sing at church every service back when I still believed that shit.