Evangelicals Defy Warnings to Head to Afghanistan

[NNN0LHI]

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200607/200607310019.html

Some 500 Korean evangelical Christians have headed to Afghanistan in defiance of government warnings to attend what is billed as a peace festival there.

A government official said on Monday, "With the security situation growing even worse due to the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, we have to be prepared for everything." The Institute of Asian Culture and Development (IACD), made up of various evangelical groups, has been working on an "Afghan peace march" of some 2,000 participants, since last December. snip

"Even aside from the state of international affairs, Afghanistan is a Muslim country and the majority of its people are Muslims, therefore it may be dangerous place for a Christian event," a Foreign Ministry official said. "By way of the embassy there, we are requesting that the participants return home ahead of time."

[hobbit709]

1. Genetic self-cleansing

at work. We don't have the sabertooths to weed out the slow and dumb anymore, so some humans take it upon themselves to get out of the gene pool.

[Ian David]

2. I'd buy them plane tickets myself. n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. What is this? Messiah Moon sending human sacrifices to whip up

more war fever when they are attacked?

[jmowreader]

4. Well, there's 500 rapturees right there

I guess that if your church goes to a war zone and someone decides to fire about a thousand 240mm mortar rounds at your gathering, it doesn't REALLY count as a suicide and you get to go to heaven.