{"id":119,"date":"2007-09-02T08:21:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T16:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:38:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:38:03","slug":"south-korean-christians-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/02\/south-korean-christians-released\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean Christians Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/09\/02\/asia\/korea.php\">article<\/a> covers the South Korean response to the homecoming of the 19 remaining hostages held by the Taliban.\u00a0 Notably, there seems to be a backlash to apparent &#8220;overzealous proselytizing,&#8221; even though<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both Saemmul Presbyterian Church, to which the hostages belong, and the government insisted that the hostages had not been proselytizing, just providing aid. But many religious experts here consider such a distinction meaningless, since South Korean churches provide aid to gain converts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why does this matter to the military Christian?\u00a0 There is a growing movement in America that is reflected here by the quoted &#8220;many religious experts:&#8221;\u00a0 the supposition that Christians can&#8217;t separate their &#8220;overtly proselytizing ways&#8221; from their other actions&#8211;whether they be charitable or governmental.\u00a0 That is,\u00a0Christians can&#8217;t help but proselytize, and they must be treated as if they will.<\/p>\n<p>Some people seem to think that if the military forbids proselytizing in its ranks then\u00a0it must restrict\u00a0the actions of Christians, because Christians cannot help but proselytize.\u00a0 The cultural view of Christianity bears significant impact on the religious freedom of Christians in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article covers the South Korean response to the homecoming of the 19 remaining hostages held by the Taliban.\u00a0 Notably, there seems to be a backlash to apparent &#8220;overzealous proselytizing,&#8221; even though Both Saemmul Presbyterian Church, to which the hostages belong, and the government insisted that the hostages had not been proselytizing, just providing aid. But many religious experts [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2,10],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}