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Mulboyne wrote:[floatl][/floatl]CBN: Japan: Filling the God Vacuum
Taro Toporific wrote:That is, the Mormon church has gained very few Japanese converts compared to HUGE losses of young missionaries to the "charms" of Japan.
gboothe wrote:It's interesting to note that the young Mormon fellows are not vaccinated against YBF.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Mormons aren't Christian.
Choeki wrote:I recall hearing somewhere that the last modern significant population of Japanese Christians was concentrated in the city of Nagasaki during the war years due to persecution by the state and was subsequently wiped out by the atomic bomb dropped there by the allies near the end of the war.
Anyone know if there is some truth to this?
james in the peanut gallery wrote:the last thing we need is more g-d damn christianity.
fluwten, also in the peanut gallery wrote:The less religion the better. Period.
jingai wrote:Isn't that what the KKK say?
... for the first time in the Klan's history, women were accepted as equal members and Catholics were encouraged to apply for membership.
Socratesabroad wrote:Ahhh, the peanut gallery has spoken. Sadly, they've managed to humiliate themselves rather than those they intend to denigrate.
I could understand being areligious, but being anti-religious is sheer hubris.
Religions like Christianity offer comfort and provide moral guidance to billions of people worldwide every day. And the two of you deign to mock and criticise such a venerable institution? Pathetic.
Ah, but then you might mention the fundamentalists and nuts. They do exist, but blaming religion for their existence is akin to blaming heavy metal music because warped fans commit suicide.
Remaining ambivalent about religion is one thing, but actively attacking it, as if from some position of knowledge or authority, smacks of unabated arrogance.
6810 wrote:What's wrong with "attacking" or even outright rejecting religion.
For as many billions as you say it comforts, so to does religion oppress, devalue and dehumanise.
Socratesabroad wrote:Remaining ambivalent about religion is one thing, but actively attacking it, as if from some position of knowledge or authority, smacks of unabated arrogance.
Those darned extremists always mess everything up..Socratesabroad wrote:..Ah, but then you might mention the fundamentalists and nuts..
..The Crusades were a series of military campaigns of a religious character waged by Christians from 1095-1291, usually sanctioned by the Pope[1] in the name of Christendom.. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
American Oyaji wrote:Some of those early popes lived lives of excess no different from some Roman emperors. Some of them were murderers, pimps and womanizers.
GJ. Please tell the WHOLE story.
"The Crusades were a series of military campaigns of a religious character waged by Christians from 1095-1291, usually sanctioned by the Pope in the name of Christendom, with the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the sacred Holy Land from Muslim rule and originally launched in response to a call from the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire for help against the expansion of the Muslim Seljuq dynasty into Anatolia."
It was basically no difference in nature than the U.S.'s push against the expansion of communism, but the philosophy and reasoning was different.
Yeah.. And?American Oyaji wrote:GJ. Please tell the WHOLE story.
"The Crusades were a series of military campaigns of a religious character waged by Christians from 1095-1291, usually sanctioned by the Pope in the name of Christendom, with the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the sacred Holy Land from Muslim rule and originally launched in response to a call from the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire for help against the expansion of the Muslim Seljuq dynasty into Anatolia."
American Oyaji wrote:Some of those early popes lived lives of excess no different from some Roman emperors. Some of them were murderers, pimps and womanizers.
Some of those early popes lived lives of excess no different from some Roman emperors. Some of them were murderers, pimps and womanizers.
Mike Oxlong wrote:With the Silk Road and all, I wonder if any popes were exposed to YBF...?
gboothe wrote:No chance. If they were, the Vatican would be in Kobe!
Mike Oxlong wrote:Maybe the popes pioneered 'delivery health' Zheng He coulda been running YB west, then bringing exotic animals of another sort back to the Emperor.
Taro Toporific wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:Mormons aren't Christian.
Are Mormons Christian?
Yes vs No
Take the Belief-O-Matic(tm).
Taro Toporific wrote:[floatl][/floatl]
President Gordon B. Hinckley dies at age 97
Pres. Hinckley seen as 'father of LDS {Morman} Church in the Orient'
Deseret Morning News - Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 11:21 p.m. MST
President Gordon B. Hinckley's ties to the LDS Church in Asia were so strong that one scholar has called him "the father of the church in the Orient"....
..."In 1960, the church was weak and small in Asia," President Hinckley said in the video. "[SIZE="5"]The seed had been planted in Japan[/SIZE], Taiwan and Korea by faithful Latter-day Saints in military service.....
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