They must be savages if they don't believe what we do.

It seems at though the poem Crusoe's Journal by Robinson Crusoe, is centered on a binary associated with Catholicism and mission work.  Crusoe makes many Catholic references such as "He", referring to God, "Christofer", referring to St. Christofer, and "Genesis" referring to the beginning book of the Holy Bible.  The other half of the binary refers to "Savages", meaning people who have not yet been converted to Christianity or Catholicism.  This is interesting because of the nature of colonization initiated by eastern European countries in Africa and various other countries where religious beliefs were seen as a form of modernity and civilized life.  This connotation, however is not one shared by all; though in eastern European countries colonizing territories, this ideology seemed to be generally accepted.  At the root of this thinking is the thought that if they don't think and believe what we do then they must be uncivilized.  Crusoe, in his first stanza seems to see this as inherently bizarre for he finishes the first stanza by saying, "converted cannibals/ we learn with him to eat the flesh of Christ." (24/25).  These lines seem paradoxical to the colonizer's beliefs and seem to align with those of the colonized because of the symbolic reference to communion.  It is the consumption of the body of Christ, thus making the Catholic colonizers a form of cannibals.