Carbizene wrote:yeah it was the Koreans dumb enough to rock up on Japanese soil, they weren't running around the world slaughtering all those who didn't believe in their invisible man.
Thank you Very Much for your post, Carbizene.
Korea has suffered many sorrows......... Often gotten it from both sides......... Right now is a fairly good example of Hell and Working toward Heaven right on the border with each other........
Christianity has a very imperfect record......... Remembering a bumper sticker.......Jesus protect me from your followers..... Tooo Often True ....... but IMHO that is much less so now than in the past........ Hopefully will stay that way unless Gary North or the like manages to ride high.... Need to try to make sure that does NOT happen........ NO Handmaids for you, Gary
But right now, the Hell side of the Korean Border is the one that does NOT believe in an Invisible Man....... Believes in the latest Man-God Ill Kim dynast.... Believes or else Hell on Earth becomes even more real
...... Similar has happened before Egypt, Inca Peru, Rome**, Soviet Russia, Maoist China.......
The Working (however imperfectly*) Toward Heaven side of Korea believes more and more in an "Invisible Man" of the "Abrahamic" tradition or "Invisible Men" or "Invisible Women" of the Buddhist or Traditional tradition
IMVHO they are better for it ....... the morality of Jesus or Buddha/Kwan Eom IMVHO is superior to Kim Ill version of Dialectical Materialism...
Remembering a speech by former Senator Danforth of Missouri......"No King but King Jesus" ......... At first it bothered me........
But when dealing with a God-King like Kim ILL whatever, it starts to make sense....... No human I know qualifies to be G_d-King.
The temptation to a King in times of chaos is easy to understand......... My CERT Instructor said that in a crisis many people become followers...... they want some one to tell them what to do........
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But IIRC you have warned about the corruption of absolute power...... Even Gandalf had to turn down the offer of the One Ring to save himself..
So no King but King Jesus is not a bad idea... He's not here yet... Soooooo NO KING........Be very careful of anybody who claims to be Him.. Or to speak for Him....... AIUI the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet are supposed to get here before Jesus does......
NOTE: These days, Kings usually do not carry the honest title of "Rex (king)" to warn you that they can wreck
things as bad or worse than a revived Tyrannosaurus Rex
......... More usually they have the title President (often for Life) or Chairman......... Indeed the "kings" who actually are called Kings and Queens are often the less dangerous ones.... have more limits and traditions to restrain serious misbehavior and mayhem..... Much depends on the individual: good or bad...... Occasionally do something good like the King of Denmark during WW2 or the King of Afghanistan before things went to Hell there more than once........ Sometimes a King can be better than the Chaos of civil war.......... Sometimes it's a close call which may be chosen wrong......... Syria is such a case for me.... Bad but what follows likely to be worse........
Other recent cases of good "kings" without the name IMVHO would be Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Turkey and Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore......
*Need to be kinder to dog persons and cat persons for example ......
**The Romans usually waited till after death and sometimes had a sense of humor about it.. Vespasian: "I think I'm becoming a god!"
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