The folly of religious arrogance

If you have seen other movies, read other books, and studied history, you should know even the nominally "same religions" quarrel within themselves. Colonization and ministries also included Catholic versions, like the Jesuits and Franciscans working in the same vicinities, and at odds/competing with each other.

Some acquaintances were Greek Orthodox, and my experience is that those few individuals "talked the talk", but didn't walk-the-walk. (Read that as "do what I say, not what I do"...) Your Russian Orthodox suggestion may not have ended up with a substantially different ending, just a different 'path' to that ending. Please notice that I am not broad-brushing that religious denomination, only relating my experience with a few individuals.
I do wonder just how much of the foreign ministries was the few individuals versus the general opinion of that particular religion. However, I am not so naive to not know big differences occur within the overall groups/religions.
(In the recent news is the Roman Catholic Pope's visit to the Americas, and he noted differences in the American (USA) Catholics from the European Catholics...)



Since China has just revised its official 1979 "one child policy" to "two children", population control is in the news, and it had crossed my mind that the Hawaiians 'disposing' of the less-than-perfect infants, and even the midwives killing the breech (turned around) babies before they 'took them out' were both forms of population control, within their own religion.
By opposing those practices, Abner was going against long standing traditional practices that may well have prevented gross overpopulation of the islands. There have been few movies directly confronting that topic, but many have 'slipped the topic in' like this one.
just sayin'