Kidnapped- 02 September 07- Part 2

[UtubeHyperboleGuy]

Pretty stupid. If you are a bunch of volunteers with no experience willing to go to a worn-torn country that does not want foreigners in the first place, don't be naive thinking things are going to turn out alright. They made their decision and the Korean government had to pay bribes for their release. All the hostages really did was provide the Taliban with more weapons and incentive to harm/kidnap more civilians. Nice going.

[1973mazdarx4coupe]

good on you ! trying to help a backward war mongering people ! they should all be killed, you cant help afghanis, they cant be saved.

[koolwater786]

i hate bloody talibans !

[vititom]

Why have so many Asians adopted Western/Middle Eastern religions? Why are they so willing to give up their beliefs foreign ones? I feel that the West has done something terrible by depriving them of their self-esteem every time I see Asians worshipping the whitened version of a Jewish man.

[Hapo1202]

Christianity is no western religion. Its from the middle east. Gosh you really have no idea about history..

I will not comment on the rest you said because it shows that you have no idea about the world..

[vititom]

Christianity was born in the Middle East, but exist mostly in the Western world, with the exception of Ethiopia, Armenia, and other smaller communities, which became smaller with the coming of Islam. After the the coming of Islam, Christianity has almost exclusively being a Western religion. Are you that blind and ignorant not to see it? It didn't get to Korea via Middle East. Now respond if you can, asshole.

[vititom]

I forgot to mention Lebanon. It was majority Christian for most of the last thousand years, but today is mostly Muslim.

[vititom]

The branches of Christianity that you find in Korean are all Westerner, mostly American, Catholicism, Presbyterianism, Evangelical Pentecostal Protestantism Are there many Coptics, Orthodox, or Maronites in Korea? I didn't see any when I was there, have you?

Finally, have you seen the images of Jesus that these Koreans use. The same as you see in Europe or the United States, no Jewish or Middle Eastern looks.

[kiwiguy090]

Lebanon was a christian safe haven untill the hasbullah aggressivly took over the country by killing the christian leaders during the bible studies or following them after. now is muslem!!!

[kiwiguy090]

Christian Designs Found in Tomb Stones of Eastern Han Dynasty as early as 86 A.D. The Apostle Thomas went to India. all took place in the first 100years AD

[vititom]

Do you have more information about this fact you claim? I never heard about St Thomas Apostle going to India or Christian designs in tombs in China at the time when Christian were being prosecuted by Rome. I studied religion for more than a decade and never heard about any of these things. Please, include a website or book if possible.

[vititom]

However, my point is that Christianity is a Western religion. If the exception of the Church of Ethiopia and some small denominations in the Middle East, the main denomination, including the largest (the Roman Catholic Church), were founded and flourished in the West, not Israel, were Jesus lived. The apostles moved to Rome or other colonies to spread the Gospel. Whatever was left there was changed by the Muslim invasions.

[vititom]

The Crusaders, the people that went to "rescue" the Holy Land, came from the West. They were all Europeans. The center of the Orthodox Church of the time was in Constantinople, that even though is in modern Turkey is located in Europe. Christianity flourished in Europe and from there spread to the rest of the World. The Spaniards, the French, and the Portuguese took it to Latin America, the Philippines, India, the Malayan Peninsula, East Timor, and other areas.

[vititom]

Jesus may have been a Middle Eastern Jew, but his church is a Western one. That was my original point. The issue being why people outside the Western world adopt a religion that is foreign to them when they have their own. The question is what motives them to do it. Just curiosity.

[kiwiguy090]

The crusaders were not christians, they were solders under papel command. Jesus never said "bible in one hand, sword in other.." thats Vatican doctrine as the popes wanted to reign from Isreal. Christians who rejected papel system and had faith to God in Jesus, and not Rome were also hunted and killed by Papel warriors. As Rome wants to control all.

[vititom]

The Crusaders were Christians. At least that's what they claimed. They marched signed hymns and believed that they were doing God's work. Check out People of the First Crusade by Foss. The Catholic Church created the Inquisition to punish those who disagreed with the Church, but so did the Protestants, the people burning witches in Salem in 1692 where Puritans.

[vititom]

They all claimed to be Christians and as I don't question someone who claims him/herself Christian today, I can't question those people that are long dead.

[redwine4545]

Amazing, very touching.