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Ban Ki-moon Sworn In As Secretary General of UN
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Posted on 12/14/2006 9:01:32 AM PST by sonsofliberty2000

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To: smith288
Now that's really heartwarming. /s
41 posted on 12/14/2006 2:04:42 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Islam offers three choices: fight, submit, or die.)
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To: Carry_Okie

And they say Kofi's heart grew three sizes that day...


42 posted on 12/14/2006 2:18:53 PM PST by glennshepard (Semper Fi, Beat Army)
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To: rjp2005

RINO Chafee also helped in blocking Bolton from re-confirmation.


43 posted on 12/14/2006 2:50:39 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: sonsofliberty2000
"He is member of the "Nonchurch Movement" (Mugyohoe)

Here's a tidbit on Mugyohoe, the Nonchurch. This should cause a bit of an uproar here:

"Another blistering critique of evangelist-fundamentalist stances was presented by Kim Kyo-sin (1901-1945), the leader of the so-called Non-Church Christian Movement (mugyohoe undong) that had begun in 1927 as an indigenous, voluntary religious movement to controvert the ways of the established Protestant denominational churches. Searching for an indigenous theology and authentic, informal Bible-centered faith community, the new movement severely criticized the narrow sacerdotal principle of extra ecclesiam nulla salus that held that salvation is not available apart from membership in a specific denominational church that controls the distribution of grace. It also criticized that the churchgoers had gone astray from the authentic Christian way and that the hierarchically oriented and authoritarian clergy had sold out to American missionaries and their whitewashed ecclesiasticism to safeguard their vested interests.

"The original leaders of this movement were the disciples of Uchimura Kanzō (1861-1930), the founder of Japanese Non-Church Christianity; and like their Japanese mentor, they all emphasized the intensive study of the Bible rather than mindlessly following the ecclesiastical doctrines, rituals and duties of the church. They were all well educated and were skeptical of the uninhibited, Pentecostal, emotional expressions of religious feelings of the evangelist-fundamentalists. Unlike the blessings-bound religion of non-privileged classes, theirs was a religious movement of virtuosi or intellectuals to attain grace through autonomous and rational ethical achievement based on a particular belief in a transcendental God. Deliberately shunning the ecstasy and the emotional piety of the lower classes, they held on to an intellectual religious attitude that takes the ethical and social requirements of everyday life more seriously."

You can read more at
http://www.gwu.edu/~eall/special/Chung-paper-HMS2000-GW.htm

44 posted on 12/14/2006 3:29:01 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Carry_Okie

It has been said he is a Christian- although the article read didn't state if he was a born again Christian- Let's just hope his morals are intact and that he'll do the best he can to clean up the sewer known as the U.N. He's already come out and stated that Iran's denial of hlocaust is unnaceptable- but let's see if there are more than juts words and handwringing this tiem around! http://sacredscoop.com


45 posted on 12/14/2006 5:51:20 PM PST by CottShop
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To: sonsofliberty2000

Another Irish guy :-)


46 posted on 12/14/2006 6:24:36 PM PST by Moleman
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To: sonsofliberty2000
As a high school student in the early 1960s, Ban met U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C. .... it was after this meeting that he resolved to become a diplomat.

Oh great. Another one.


47 posted on 12/14/2006 9:00:34 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: Veto!

"The heirarchically oriented and authoritarian clergy had sold out to the American missionaries...to safeguard their vested interests."

I have been reading a history of the Scots-Irish in America. In the Eighteenth Century as these settlers moved over the mountains into Kentucky and Tennessee, they lacked religion and felt the need for it. Many of them came here as Presbyterians, who believed that their ministers should be well educated especially in theological matters. There was such a shortage that Methodists and Baptists who believed that their ministers were "called" and did not need to have extensive education moved into the vacuum in droves. Sounds as though something similar was operating here.


48 posted on 12/15/2006 12:45:59 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Dixie Yooper

This kicks off the "fill Koffi's pockets with speaking fees cash" tour.


49 posted on 12/15/2006 6:37:55 AM PST by SoCal_Republican
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To: SoCal_Republican
Now that he's just a simple foreigner, how much time does he have left on his visa? Is he going to become part of our illegal alien problem? Is he still considered a diplomat? Is he allowed to travel more than 30 miles outside of New York City?
50 posted on 12/15/2006 7:23:01 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Vigilanteman

"Sounds like a big improvement over Kofi. But that's not much of a compliment considering a pile of steaming doggie doo would also be a big improvement over Kofi."

I agree. The guy went to Harvard and comes from a fully functioning democracy. I would not want the post. The job of trying to clean up the organization is beyond comprehension but I do feel he will at least not bash the US or the West for our imperfections as Kofi loves to do on a constant basis.


51 posted on 12/15/2006 7:48:17 AM PST by quantfive
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To: Vigilanteman

Very true, Kofi was as uselss as dog excrement.


52 posted on 12/15/2006 9:18:17 AM PST by Sword_Svalbardt (Sword Svalbardt)
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To: RetiredArmy

Clue up man! Latest dimowit presidential wannabe team...Hillary/Annan.


53 posted on 12/16/2006 1:34:07 PM PST by Issaquahking (Trust can't be bought)
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