Well then. This thread may get interesting.
Well, they’re wrong and should sit down, STFU and have an ice cold Coke.
This is not good news. Christians have more then their share of prosecutions, specially in N. Korea, China and the Middle East. They should be working together for the name of Christ, we as Christians can’t afford these disputes.
Sounds like FR.
I’ve often thought Muzzies must come here for a good laugh as Catholics and Protestants lob insults at each other.
How charming
I don’t know which Protestant denominations are big in South Korea, but I am not surprised about this protest at all. The seamstress/alterations shop near me is Korean-owned, and there are anti-Catholic tracts sitting on the counter. (When they made my daughter’s baptismal gown I was careful not to mention which church she was getting baptized in.) There is also a picture of a huge crowd of Korean Christians attending a large meeting. I assume the picture was from Korea, and not a gathering of Koreans in America.
Christians in S.Korea represent about 20% of the population, with 8mil+ Protestants and 5mil+ Roman Catholics - approx.
Most of the Protestants have theological heritages from the early American Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries, preserving mostly that Conservative Christian theology those missionaries brought and not moving so much in the Liberal direction of the western churches, while in some cases maintaining some institutional linkages with some of them. They also have a number of mega-church’s of something of a Korean-Baptist-Evangelical type. Seems we still export some things to Korea. LOL
I can give an example of the difference between the two, and what being an evangelical Christian means to me. I was just listening to the radio show of a Catholic, Patrick Madrid, and one topic he went into is making decisions and in particular deciding to say no to things because of being too busy. He brought up some “tips” from a woman who seems to be a secular author with a new book on the subject, which were things like consider the importance of something you’re being asked to do versus how many hours you have in a week.
What was missing, though, in this advice on what to do in your moments of having to make a decision and not knowing what to do was asking the Lord. The Bible says in different ways that at such times we are to ask Him and He will give us the answer. I used to be in anxiety all the time before reading the Bible and learning all that and beginning to do it, but I’ve learned so much about going to Him when the anxiety of what to do comes, and I find peace in Him. Even if it (Cont’d)
(cont’d) should turn out that I made a mistake, or seemed to, I trust that it was part of the Lord’s plan and He had purposes for it. One example from the Bible would be Peter’s failure in denying Christ. It revealed things in Him and the Lord used it in many ways. It still teaches and shows us things today. Peter most likely didn’t ask the Lord what to do while he was being tested, though. He thought he could handle pressure alone. The reason to ask the Lord what to do, though, is that’s really He wants. We’ve done His will if we do that. And it’s the best thing we can do because only He knows the future and all we don’t know. If we aske Him, we can have peace that He’s led us. It may be how He led the Israelites to be cornered by the Red Sea, but we can trust that if we keep faith while we go through troubles after having asked for His guidance, He will bring us through it just as He promised to safely lead the blind.
Sounds like they could keep themselves busy being a light to the unchurched. There seem to be plenty.
Or they could throw a stinkbomb at their catholic brothers and sisters on the day they welcome the pope into their country. I guess different people have different priorities.
I thought the Pope was going to NORTH Korea.
Having honest philosophical or theological differences with the Catholic Church does not necessarily make one “anti-Catholic”.