Peace Child's influence

How did Christianity change this culture?
The Sawi people's highest pleasure depended upon the misery and despair of others, which is quoted from the book. This kind of treachery was idealized as a virtue - a goal of life. It was hard to believe the fact that there were still people like this living on this earth. To me, it doesn't make sense logically how killing someone can be considered honorable. This 'action' seems like a total insanity and obsurdity, but I don't blame or detest them for who they are as a person and the same human being.

Throughout the story, the Sawi men only gave me a fearful and negative image until they decided to agree upon a peach child. This concept of "Peace Child" is what changed the Sawi's culture. In the story, Don Richardson had made a statement, "The living peace child was indeed a culturally built-in antidote to the Sawi idealization of violence." The only true and sincere act in this barbaric culture was from the exchange of the peace child. To the Sawi people true peace could never come without a peace child. Don Richardson took this as a key to all his answers, beacuse it was exactly what Jesus did for us on the cross. He took our sins and sacrificed his life so that we can freely communicated between God and men.

As the Sawi men heard the story of Jesus, referred to as the peace child, their culture gradually changed. Good spirits were beginning to enter their village. Their lifestyle and way of social interaction changed. Years later, because of the medical usuage and civilized equipment the population of the Sawi tribe increased. Children began going to schools and almost all of them went to worship Jesus every sunday at the main longhouse. This proves how strongly Christianity had a impact on these people, who were once brutal and harsh.