Comments on: BREAKING NEWS : Two hostages may be freed

By: MigukNamja

MigukNamja — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:37:55 +0000

Re #7 : Very good article, indeed.

By: Ut videam

Ut videam — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:06:14 +0000

#9 -

You are kidding, right?

Two words: Christopher Hitchens.

ABC even put him on the air during their live coverage of (now Blessed) Mother Teresa’s funeral. Granted, the vitriolic diatribe he spewed then (which made even Peter Jennings uncomfortable enough to eventually cut him off) probably didn’t do much to advance the anti-God cause, but you can’t deny that the guy is consistently given a forum to air his views.

Peter Singer, E.O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins… they get published too. And not infrequently. So really, I don’t see that you’ve got a legitimate gripe here.

By: Paul H.

Paul H. — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:03:45 +0000

Oh please. I hope you’re not going to betray the “tough guy” values of your militant secular humanism by intimating even the least little bit of submission to the universal cult of victimhood.

Probably most of the editors of major US newspapers/
magazines will subscribe at least nominally to some sort of Judeo-Christian belief, given our national heritage in the US (as opposed to Korea). But just because you won’t find regular jeremiads against Christianity on the editorial page doesn’t mean that it can’t be found in major media print if you look for it (book reviews, the occasional guest editorial in Time, sophisticated magazines such as Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, etc).

If you want more than that you’re going to have to get together, get organized, and start sending out missionaries to knock on doors and preach the true faith of atheism.

By: Herod

Herod — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:51:06 +0000

Good article.
Which makes me realize: There is far more freedom to write critically of Christianity in mainstream media here in Korea than you would get in the USA, where frank criticism of Christianity is restricted to fringe publications like Skeptic.

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:48:32 +0000

Wow — he (link in #7) has an unusually mature and sophisticated perspective (for a Korean writing in a newspaper)…

By: andru

andru — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:41:31 +0000

Take a look at this interesting commentary in the koreatimes.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/ww....._8092.html

By: globalvillageidiot

globalvillageidiot — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:45:31 +0000

It would make me happy to know that two hostages - better yet, all of them - were free. That said, I’ll believe it when I see them get off the plane at Incheon International.

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:29:53 +0000

Yup. Most probably the reason that the release has been held up is that the cash-payment didn’t “go thru” properly…

By: iheartblueballs

iheartblueballs — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:00:25 +0000

The Taliban are clearly fans of North Korean negotiating tactics. And given their unparalleled success over the years in extracting concessions and resources from SK while giving up absolutely nothing, they’re certainly reading the right playbook.

By: wjk

wjk — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:06:29 +0000

naver reports Taliban changed its mind.

Fuckers.

George W. Bush took the initiative to rid the world of these fuckers.

It is clearly not okay to do these things to civilians.

If it takes a war to make this clear universally, let it be. Let it be.