I actually don’t mind the idea of translating hymns from one language to another, or of one culture singing songs from another. Interestingly, while many American Christians are ready to send their hymns/songs to every other culture, they themselves would never dream of enjoying a Christian song from another culture (especially if that culture has its own unique style of music).

Methodists wrote most of those – Wesleyan Methodists

Charles Wesley and Fanny Crosby, probably the two most well known and prolific hymn writers, were Arminian Wesleyan Methodists.

And yes, we have our quirks – rock music = evil; alcohol = evil; dispensational, KJV = good and so on.

Even in my country when the mainline churches would be considered evangelical by US standards, these guys are waaaay too far. A lot of folks in my new church (conservative Reformed) one thought my ex-church was a cult when I told them about our doctrines.

My IFB pastor was ultra-right-wing in his political beliefs – Israel is always right, global warming is a scam, UN is evil (he rambled about Christian parents losing control of their children when the US signed the Convention of the Rights of the Child) and so on.

Lols really.

The worst part is that the locals often see through the duplicity but refuse to do or say anything because they know the American missionary may just pull his money and go somewhere else and help others. And sadly, it does happen! Then the missionary sends a letter back to the States telling his supporters how persecuted he is for the cause of Christ! Colonialism is alive and well in the modern American fundamentalist missionary movement which would prove revolting to their hero – Adoniram Judson and William Carey!