Posted on 12/17/2008 11:07:26 AM PST by Borges
U.S. journalist John W. Powell, whose 1950s articles alleging American use of germ warfare in Korea sparked sedition charges, has died at 89, his son says.
Powell, who had lived for many years in San Francisco, died in the city Monday of complications from pneumonia, son John S. Powell told Wednesday's New York Times.
U.S. prosecutors put Powell on trial in 1959 on a rare charge of sedition, after he authored articles for his Shanghai publication The China Monthly Review asserting that U.S. military had employed germ warfare against North Korea, using methods they had allegedly learned from the defeated Japanese army.
Powell wrote that a secret unit of the occupying Japanese army known as Unit 731 had carried out large-scale biological warfare attacks on Chinese soldiers and civilians during World War II, killing hundreds of thousands.
The U.S. government eventually dropped all charges against Powell, but his case dragged on for five years and became a cause celebre.
Afterwards, unable to continue his journalistic career, he made a successful career of buying and restoring Victorian mansions in San Francisco and operating an antiques business, the Times said.
You wrote:
“The idea of eternal punishment in hell is not reconcilable with the idea of a benevolent God.”
Actually, it is absolutely necessary is God is just.
My idea of what is "appropriate" has no bearing on the "beneficence" of God.
Anybody know where he’s buried, so that I can go piss on his grave.
It’s wrong to laugh at that, but I did anyway.
Good riddance!
Sure it is, when you realize that God is free, in the truest sense possible, and that He made you in His image. He made you free. Therefore, if you choose to separate yourself from Him, He's going to honor that choice.
On the other hand, you can repent and enjoy eternal life and all the blessings that go with it.
It's entirely up to you. He did His part.
They look like they need some water.
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