Posted on 12/12/2017 10:42:15 AM PST by fishtank
Army atheist yells, ‘God save me’, as shells explode
by Roger Griffiths
This article arose from an exchange of information between CMI’s translations facilitator Roger Griffiths and John T. Tolbert, an evangelist working with several language groups in Asia, primarily Vietnamese.
Published: 12 December 2017 (GMT+10)
John recalls, as a five-year-old, looking up at the sky, and realizing there must be a God. At 17 years, he joined the US Army, which was engaged in the Vietnam War. During basic training, an older colleague, hearing that John believed in God, gave him Mark Twain’s Letters from the Earth, which lampoons the Bible. John says, “Not having read the Bible, I fell for it, and became an atheist.”
In March 1969, he arrived in Vietnam and became an interpreter of Vietnamese. That period in his life had a huge impact, because he discovered that when the shells were falling around him and people were getting killed, “I was running for the nearest bunker praying, ‘God save me’!”...
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Dang, my teeth hurt just looking at that.
Good God. I am sure that only increases the sense of helplessness, since there isn’t ANYTHING you can do but just hunker down...and pray.
“My hero was John Wayne-atheist. Death bed conversion”
Id never heard that.
Atheists are the dumbest folks in any situation, especially since so many of them consider themselves educated.
I often wonder, when the atheists came to murder Madalyne Murray O’Hair, did she say “OH MY GOD!” or “OH MY ME!”
And he’s a minister as well.
My late father was once an atheist. He gave me the most eloquent testimony on faith. He said that his first combat tour in Vietnam cured him “of that particular conceit.”
“There are no atheists in foxholes.”
That is what my neighbor told me. He was an American bomber pilot shot down over Yugoslavia during WW2. Yugoslav partisans hid Jim and other pilots for a week until a daring nighttime rescue could made. The pilots were taken to a large clearing in some woods and were told hide in foxholes while waiting for a rescue plane to land. The foxholes were dispersed over a large area so if that the Germans discovered them and began shelling the area, a burst would not kill the whole group. Jim said it was the longest night of his life, waiting through the suspense, in total darkness, cold, hungry and scared. He said that former tough guys were crying and praying to God that night. A bomber landed, the pilots scampered from their foxholes and the plane took off again less than a minute after touchdown.
Wow. I can’t imagine their fear.
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