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The Christian missionaries who visited and forced their way into the community belittled the Waorani tribe. They preached a threatening and untruthful version of the Bible to enforce their will. They took money from oil companies to help them exploit the Waorani’s land and gain their “trust”. The Waorani’s were a cashless society and those who did not buy into Christianity were demonized and called communists