Missionary seeks misery: The good Christian lady wanted to find dirt floors, dirty laundry, and half naked children covered in bug bites, instead she found a modern and prosperous city, and she was disappointed.

In an obnoxious blog entry a Christian missionary named Jessica Tidwell discusses her disappointment to find the modern and prosperous city of Nairobi in Kenya.

Apparently Tidwell was expecting to find unwashed savages in need of Jesus. Instead, she found a thriving metropolis:

I was dressed in my “mission trip clothes” and had my game face on. Today was going to be the day that I fell in love with Kenya. it didn’t happen … My heart was prepared for dirt floors. For dirty laundry hanging everywhere. For kids that were half naked and covered in bug bites. People who couldn’t speak English.

Tidwell goes on:

But this girl from the states expected Nairobi to be like what you see in the movies. Or on Feed the Children commercials.

Poor thing, she wanted to see real poverty, human misery, suffering, like on the T.V. But those prosperous and happy citizens of Nairobi were ruining the good Christian lady’s missionary experience.

The fact that someone would be frustrated and disappointed that Nairobi was not poverty stricken is morally repugnant, and reflects a shallow and selfish thinking.

The smug American Christian, hungry for some poverty porn, saw only prosperity. Expecting human misery and suffering on her missionary trip to Kenya, she was of course discouraged when met with middle-class modernity.