man...how far we have tumbled
attending church as a lad in the 60s and gazing out the sunday school class window in spring wishing i were fishing or roaming the woods off in the distance or looking at other churches across town realizing my buddies were temporarily entrapped there as well....and thinking I had forever to live..lol
i never figured my nation would collapse so fast and so disgustingly...the future looked so bright for all of us then...people were happier and more optimistic
things now look dirty and ironic and jaded....and past tense
am I the only one?
poor kids here never knew another reality...America and our culture once stood for something optimistic.......it was not a myth
now we live under a tyranny of all the fringes of the culture
"If God doesn't soon bring judgment upon America,shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
He'll have to go back and apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!"
DEMOCRACY THROUGH CHRISTIANITY
MacArthur pondered Showa conversion
By MIKIO HARUNA
Kyodo News
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander during the Allied Occupation of Japan, once considered attempting to convert Emperor Showa to Christianity, a diary of the U.S. secretary of the Navy shows.
In his diary, James Forrestal wrote that during his meeting with MacArthur in Tokyo on July 10, 1946, the general said he had “given some consideration” to persuading the Emperor to convert but thought it would need a “good deal of reflection and consideration before it could be carried out.”
Kyodo News obtained a copy of the diary, which was found at the library of Princeton University, Forrestal’s alma mater in New Jersey. The author later became the first U.S. secretary of defense, a post created in 1947.
MacArthur’s idea of spreading Christianity in Japan by having the Emperor change his religion probably stemmed from the general’s belief that democracy arises from Christian principles, according to Ray Moore, a professor of Japanese history at Amherst College, in Massachusetts, who described MacArthur as a “19th century man. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20000504b7.html
A devout Episcopalian, MacArthur said to a visiting group of evangelicals that “Japan is a spiritual vacuum. If you do not fill it with Christianity, it will be filled with Communism. Send me 1,000 missionaries.” He asked U.S. missionary societies to send “Bibles, Bibles and more Bibles.”
You aren’t the only one, wardaddy...