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To: MuttTheHoople

Hirohito offering to make Japan a Christian nation? I find that very hard to believe.

Now, Douglas MacArthur wildly exaggerating? That I would believe.


2 posted on 03/23/2021 5:56:16 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

I think this might have been a misunderstanding. But if it did happen and if the General agreed it would have been great. But thinking further the Emperor did not need MacArthur’s permission he could have just declared Japan Christian. Japan has been largely closed to the gospel. Early on the island of Kyushu accepted Christianity wholeheartedly but later all the Christians were killed. I don’t think individualist Americans understand clearly how a society like Japan works. They have to have people laughing in the corner of the tv screen for them to know when to laugh.


3 posted on 03/23/2021 6:12:03 AM PDT by Othniel77
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To: Leaning Right
Now, Douglas MacArthur wildly exaggerating? That I would believe.

Not so, taking the moment of opportunity into consdideration. There are three significant points which I well remember, that did influemce the world's future.

The first was for our country to supply Japan with a thousand Christian missionaries, and a million Bibles (in the Japanese language) in which our government refused to cooperate with MacArthur's explicit Christian-based request as a believer in it.

The second was Japan's rebuilding of its destroyed steel-making capability by replacing it with the basic oxygen process, the product of which was far superior in quality and economy to the obsolete methods of Pittsburgh, which our steel industry businessmen clung to rather than modern methods, thus making Japanese steel (and later Korean and finally Chinese) in the position to dominate the world market.

And thirdly, Japan received with open arms the lessons taught by Robert Deming of Quality Concepts by which its products were to be made economically and superior in overall value, and by which the Japanese automobile, television, and other semiconductor products far exceeded the expectations of the American customer, which thus obliterated our national economy, leaving it in the current mess of insurmountable debt owed by the consumeres' posterity. Japan money invested in American real estate put them into ownership of our West Coast (a retribution for putting loyal Japanese citizens into concentration camps for the duration of the war?).

Of course, our national debt to the founder of our Constitutional precepts is no longer recognized, worshiped, nor adored as He was by our Founders who formed our Constitutional law on Biblical Christian principles,

And our children wonder, not having experienced this roller-coaster decline of Americanism through the influence of apostate denominations and the liberal universities producing communistic antichristian believers in humanism and "progressivism.".

Like Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Dubya Bush (Protestant); the Kennedys and Joe Biden (nominally Roman Catholic); and Barack and Michelle Obama, guided by Valerie Jarrett (wholly unchristian communist-trained Constitution-destroyers).

Someone had to vote them all in, didn't they?

6 posted on 03/23/2021 10:20:07 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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