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To: marshmallow

Always found it interesting how fertile of a ground Korea was for Christianity. Some places like Japan have been the target of missionaries for centuries with minimal results.


2 posted on 02/02/2016 8:00:31 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Shadow44; marshmallow

Seoul has a large mosque built in the 1970's by the Saudis. I don't know what their attendance is like.

4 posted on 02/02/2016 8:12:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: Shadow44
Always found it interesting how fertile of a ground Korea was for Christianity.

In Asia, (South) Korea is second to the Philippines in highest percentage of Christians.

5 posted on 02/02/2016 8:13:28 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: Shadow44
Always found it interesting how fertile of a ground Korea was for Christianity. Some places like Japan have been the target of missionaries for centuries with minimal results.

Americans had a long presence in South Korea, with the war.
Japan doesn't even have an ordinary religion like we have. They had "hero" worship--Shinto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto

Buddhism isn't a god-centered faith either, as the Buddha was Sidhartha Gautama, an Indian holy man. He INSISTED that he wasn't a god but the folks deified him anyway.

7 posted on 02/03/2016 12:25:13 PM PST by cloudmountain
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