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Elsewhere on Tanna, some people worship a shadowy American figure they call John Frum - probably a legacy of the GIs stationed in the New Hebrides during the Second World War, who brought large quantities of cargo (equipment and material goods).
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Elsewhere on Tanna, some people worship a shadowy American figure they call John Frum - probably a legacy of the GIs stationed in the New Hebrides during the Second World War, who brought large quantities of cargo (equipment and material goods).
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Elsewhere on Tanna, some people worship a shadowy American figure they call John Frum - probably a legacy of the GIs stationed in the New Hebrides during the Second World War, who brought large quantities of cargo (equipment and material goods).
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Elsewhere on Tanna, some people worship a shadowy American figure they call John Frum - probably a legacy of the GIs stationed in the New Hebrides during the Second World War, who brought large quantities of cargo (equipment and material goods).
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The confrontation was between the members of a long-established cargo cult called the John Frum movement, and a breakaway faction which wants to move with the times and embrace Christianity.
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FOR 60 years, the people of Tanna island shunned Christianity in the belief that a mysterious saviour called John Frum would bring them boundless wealth.
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Adherents to the movement, which encourages the return to traditional customs of dancing and kava-drinking, also believe that a hero, "John Frum" will one day return, bringing with him the riches seen in the hands of American GIs during World War II -- including radios and cars.
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Forgive me, in being a layman at best - but, in the end, what's the difference between the evidence for Jesus and the evidence for John Frum?
Mythicism: Microexistence vs. Macroexistence? James F. McGrath 2010
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He's going there to witness John Frum Day, an annual religious celebration of the island's John Frum's cargo cult, a religion based on Tanna's brief exposure to American servicemen during World War II.
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A cargo cult on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu celebrates John Frum Day every February 15th.
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