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.
agreed.
They can stop propping up an illegitimate and murderous government.
I'd like to hear what you think would be an effective way to make North Korea's government change their tack with their people.
They can stop propping up an illegitimate and murderous government.
Which citizens are South Korea and the US "slaughtering?
To my knowledge none.
I am not concerned here with the underprivileged. I am concerned with a perpetual humanitarian crisis of epoch proportions.
What are YOU doing about it? Have you adopted some North Korean Children? Have you gone to North Korea to adopt a family of North Koreans?
What right do you have to call the South Korean Christians immoral if you are doing no more than they are?
So Amos, are you suggesting that South Korea and the US should stop with the food, technology, and equipment gifts?
It is false. You have no documentation to prove any allegation you have made.
Besides, if politics has anything to do with it, then why are you blaming the South Korean Church?
BTW the ad-hominem attack was your thread. You have condemned the entire Christian body of South Korea for not doing something that you are not doing either.
Perhaps you should publicly apologize to the South Korean Christians and then request that this thread be pulled.
The country is mostly buddist. What a stupid article. I can you fail at something you never were.
Simply put---no. What would you have South Korean Christians do?? Invade the North?? Your thesis is STILL stupid, unsupported by facts, and detached from reality.
South Korea provides financial support for the government of North Korea that never gets outside the 24/7 parties for leadership. Food supplies are distributed by the gov of North Korea, much of which is sold into China and the proceeds distributed among the elite.
You folks do not seem to understand the depths of the North Korean government's corruption. We and South Korea prop up that government to prevent exactly what? How could the people possible be worse off?
As to the matter of being uninformed. Those who claim I am uninformed have no idea of the internal conditions of North or South Korea. Their insults only prove my case.
Anyone who cares to be informed need only spend a few minutes in a search engine for original documents, not MSM political spin. The media in South Korea is just as left wing as that here in the US. The media is not to be trusted. The government of South Korea is committed to a politically correct policy that maintains the status quo.
Before lobbing another stink bomb my way check it out. Do not assume that I am the one who is stupid.
Indeed. Thank you for the ping! And thank you for your insights, Amos the Prophet.
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