Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Radioactive
St. Mary's Cathedral was used as a marker for Bock's car bombadier .

Incorrect. The aiming point that was used by Kermit Beahan was the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works not the Urakami Cathedral.

Christianity was instantly wiped out of Japan with one fell swoop.

Incorrect again. There were ~15,000 Catholics living in Nagasaki. ~10,000 were killed in the bombing.

73 posted on 08/05/2005 7:52:14 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies ]


To: A.A. Cunningham
Nope. You are wrong...Here are some facts...

St. Mary's Cathedral was one of the landmarks that the Bock's Car bombardier had been briefed on, and, looking through his bomb site over Nagasaki that day, he identified the cathedral, ordered the drop, and, at 11:02 am, Nagasaki Christianity was carbonized, then vaporized, in a scorching, radioactive fireball. And so the persecuted, vibrant, faithful center of Japanese Christianity became ground zero, and what Japanese Imperialism couldn't do in 200 years of persecution, American Christians did in 9 seconds; the entire worshipping community of Nagasaki was wiped out.

74 posted on 08/05/2005 8:54:28 AM PDT by Radioactive (I'm on the radio..so I'm radioactive)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson