The Korea World Missions Association, has expressed “dissatisfaction” with the agreement between the Korean government and Taliban banning missionary work in Afghanistan. It has also released a document that proposes setting up a crisis management team for overseas missionaries and lays out ground rules for crisis management. In other words, if there is an another hostage crisis, then these guys will take the lead in negotiating with the hostage takers.
A KWMA spokesperson stated that “this does not mean that we will simply push for continuation of missionary work, just that we will carry out future missionay work in an intelligent and peaceful manner.”
Although the KWMA has not explicity stated that it will continue on with missionary work in Afghanistan, the above statements and actions makes one cannot help but wonder whether missionary work in Afghanistan will continue, albeit covertly, after the hostages have come home and things have cooled down a bit. Also, one wonders whether the Taliban would be willing to negotiate with a Korean Protestant crisis management team or be merciful with future hostages, for that matter, when they had already agreed with the ROK government that it will free the current hostages in return for banning missionaries in Afghanistan.
Just when you thought Korean Protestants have learned their lesson. Well they never disappoint, do they?
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It’s difficult to see which they have more of, arrogance or hubris. Of course, being Washed in the Blood of the Lamb makes everything all right, doesn’t it?
Well, at least one poster in here expressed admiration for them and said he would have gone “if he had the courage.”
I imagine there are quite a few other folks — perhaps not quite a “silent majority” — who also hope the soul saving continues.
If the Taliban do kidnap anymore Korean hostags, then Chun Doo Hwan will have an opportunity, to make good on his promise to offer himself in exchange for any hostages.
I’m sure he can’t wait for the opportunity to sacrifice himself.
Duck Season!
Wabbit Season!
Duck Season!
Wabbit Season!
Neither, in Afghanistan its Korean Hostage Taking Season!
Strange…I thought the hostages were there to provide medical aid.
Statements like this from the KWMA fly right in the face of a government directive. I wonder just how much clout they wield in government elections and parliamentary decision making. If it is anything like in the States, it must be considerable.
Well, yeah, considering in the States that one of the biggest Republican contributors is Rev. Moon — and he owns media outlets such as the Washington Times.
Hmm… This is not good for GNP and especially for Lee Myung-Bak, who as a mayor got under fire for saying he would “dedicate” Seoul to God.
Interesting to read the hostages’ report that the moksa-nim fainted as soon as the Taliban stopped the bus. Also to read their accounts of constant terror. Not that I blame them for being afraid, but it seems that deep down, really deep down, these people have no more faith in an omnipotent god than the rest of us do.
#8, maybe Pampers should fund their next mission. Don’t lose it in the face of adversity [or if you do we'll catch if for ya]
I was also struck by the evident lack of faith and actual-willingness for martyrdom by both the hostages and their families… seems like they don’t really believe that they go to Heaven and sit at Jesus’s right hand or whatever the doctrine of their church now is… I can respect a sincere and true Christian like Bob Dylan but…
give a zealot enough rope and chances are she’ll hang herself.
Sanshinseon – Right. Reminds me also of the poor Korean Christian who had his throat slit in Iraq after being videotaped bawling for his life. Again: I don’t mean for a second to imply that I would have been braver. I would probably have behaved in the same way. But then, I don’t believe in a hereafter, or a loving God who will always let happen what he wants to let happen. The nature of the modern Christian’s faith is clearly different from the faith of the early Christians.
“The nature of the modern Christian’s faith is clearly different from the faith of the early Christians.”
Yep. The key word is “modern.”
Hmmm. I think the keyword was ‘Christian’ but the word has evolved to include all sorts of stupid dogmas. Blame the Pope. Blame Luther. Blame protestants. Blame Mormons. Blame the Seventh Day Adventists. Blame the Messianic Jews. Everybody calls their church the ‘one true faith’ and it’s all BS.
10. I agree completely. The BBC is reporting that Yu Kyeong-Sik:
“cried as he paid homage to their two slain colleagues, saying ‘we will live our lives for them’”.
Hmmm, shouldn’t he still be living his life for Jebus?
Thou shalt have no other gods before you!!!
chiamatt:
They just don’t get it. People who can read the Bible and then think that Jebus wants them to be successful in their business – you’re not talking attentive readers here!
No one seems to have a definitive account of what the hostages were doing there. Despite hearing they were proselytizing, most accounts I have heard in the media say otherwise. Who has the dirt on this?
oops, second, I wonder just how many souls they have ‘won’ in Afghanistan? Can’t be too many, one would imagine.
Church tourism, aaron. The aim being to be photographed/videotaped passing out cookies, etc, in hospitals, orphanages, other tear-jerking locales, the better to drum up support for the church back home so that moksa-nim can get that Equus he’s had his eye on for so long.
Is there really any part of the world that hasn’t heard of jesus/christianity? Is there a need to still go door to door trying to sell it? Why hasn’t the One True Way reached critical mass yet? Could it be that, instinctively, the human race doesn’t really need invisible behavoir controlling boogeymen anymore,and the movement is running on inertia?
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