Posted on 11/17/2006 9:32:22 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
(I have been wanting to express this for some time. A comment on another thread prompted me to put it in words.)
South Korea has some of the largest Christian churches in the world. They send missionaries to every nation including our own. They are, by all appearances, a great Christian nation, but their Christianity is a lie.
The most basic Christian impulse is to care for one's neighbor and to love one's brothers and sisters. South Korea is absolutely paranoid about a sudden influx of North Koreans into their society. They are not willing to threaten the comfort and wealth they have developed for the sake of desperately poor cousins to the north. This is NOT a Christian response. It is selfish and profoundly immoral.
South Koreans will lose their precious comforts because they are not willing to share them. Greed is their byword and poverty will be their reward. They will reap the whirlwind of their failure to be genuine Christians.
P.S. Have you invited 10 inner city ghetto families from the city closest to you (your neighbors) to live in tents on your property, rent free?
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Yes. I have. They are now independent and self supporting.
Ever heard of Checkpoint Charlie?
You know, the Berlin wall?
I agree. This is one of the worst vanity postings I can remember.
The only one that I can think of that comes close is one called "Scary" from about three years ago. But that one was also a lot funnier.
One: there is a small underground network attempting to free people who wish to leave North Korea.
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But there is no official organization, government policy of support, or system of programs for assimilating immigrants from the North. Must they be Christian to be offered help?
The sheer violence of some of these posts reflects an unwillingness to acknowledge that the severe oppression of people by governments is a moral and not a political issue.
The North Koreans have been used, abused, starved, tortured and brainwashed by the Kim family mafia/psychotic enterprise.
I don't blame the South Koreans for being scared of what will happen when the Kim psychos are finally brought down. They will either go out with a bang (if you know what I mean) or there will be hoards of starving brainwashed lunatics crashing through Soeul.
While it is painful to let the Kim nutjobs continue with torturing and starving your fellow cousins, the other choice is to help keep the Kims in power even longer.
The sheer ignorance of your posts reflects an unwillingness to acknowledge that the severe oppression of the people by the government of North Korea is the source of the moral problem of which you speak.
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Nonsense. Without a moral compass there is no judgement on the North. The South is best able to provide that moral compass. They neglect to do so at their peril.
While it is painful to let the Kim nutjobs continue with torturing and starving your fellow cousins, the other choice is to help keep the Kims in power even longer.
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The Kim nutjobs will remain in power until there is a concerted effort to divest them of their slaves.
The majority of the population in S Korea was born after North Korea was formed. South Korea is less capable than China to resolve the situation. Let the dead bury the dead.
By any chance do you write for Lark?
Since when does North Korea let their people go south. What a dumb post.
South Korea is already showing that moral compass. It thrives, while giving millions of dollars to an unrepentant North Korea.
Your words are a perversion of the circumstance between the warring countries.
Let me ask you this. Why didn't Christ, who had all the power to do so, eliminate poverty and change everyone's hearts? According to your perspective, because He could do so, He was required to do so. But He didn't. Nor did God on any other occasion. Why?
When the example of Jesus, God, all the Prophets, and the Apostles do not support your moral perspective, I think it shows you are supporting the wrong position.
Do the jaded Freepers jeering here represent to you "the example of Jesus, God, all the Prophets, and the Apostles?"
You speak for all of the authority that has ever influenced Judeo Christian thought, yet, you fail to acknowledge the horror of allowing people to die under malicious dictatorship. Instead you excuse the moral failures of South Korea - and by extension the US - on purely political grounds.
You argue that because God could end poverty and did not people of conscience should sit on their hands and do nothing?
The moral tone in much of the Freeper state is given over to politics. I could not be more dismayed.
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