You’re wrong, actually. Just Google any religion name with ‘messiah’ or ‘martyr’ and something will come up.

“Korean hostage’s body has been found…The victim…was wearing …flip-flops”

You know this will reinforce the stereotype that Koreans all wear flip-flops. At least they didn’t say they were those blue rubber flip-flops with the 3 white stripes.

Herod: That passage in Numbers 31 is a highly disturbing story, and sickening in the breadth and depth of what happened. Those who take a conservative view of Scripture cannot just explain the story away or pretend it’s not in the Bible, however (as you have alluded in the past to Christians doing), but must confront it and try to make sense of it, even if it makes God and Moses look bad in the eyes of many readers. The story must be understood in context, however. For a scholarly, Christian explanation of the Numbers 25-31 story arc, see Good question…What about God’s cruelty against the Midianites?

It’s not just a Korean tendency. I grew up in a staunchly Catholic household and received 5 years of Catholic school education plus 6 additional years of CCD. We always called ourselves Catholics. The only time I ever heard the word “Christian” in reference to ourselves was in hymns and sermons. Likewise, many North Americans equate “Christian” with “Protestant.” I don’t think Koreans created the erroneous Catholic/Christian distinction; rather, they absorbed it from European and American missionaries. Fantasy acknowledged that Europeans, too, use the same terminology.