Atheists & Agnostics

as to why Everett was barred from returning to the Pirahã people, for whatever it's worth. I sincerely doubt that the linguistics/university community had anything to do with it. I think some religious zealot or zealots confronted the government officers demanding he not be allowed to spread his godless atheism to these poor ignorant lost souls. The officers in charge probably would look the other way under other circumstances, but being good Brazilian Catholics they would be torn between reason and their beliefs. Allowing a confessed atheist to reinforce an ancient ungodified way of life that jeopardized the Pirahã's eternal souls could be some kind of mortal sin. To add, there seems to have been an influx of money from somewhere.

Everett probably irked the religious community that originally sent him to Brazil in the first place. It would be their duty to bring righteous indignation to bear. And then there are disgruntled family members who are still believers along with anti-science anti-reason hordes that still lurk in the dark ages.

Who are the real primitives: those who live a simple fearless and happy existence that encompasses ideas that could improve our own culture or those who have subjugated themselves to their fear of god and thus are compelled to subjugate everyone else to their narrow primitive beliefs?