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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (350585)	9/14/2007 12:55:46 PM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1577143

Good post, all of it right on. Thanks for putting it straight. A martyr doesn't do it to himself, he is forced to death, mostly a slow death in a most painful way, because of what higher values he believes in and refuses to give up believing on. Classic paintings show a lot of that. Could you believe the Holy Sebastian self strapped in dynamite belts rather than slowly bleeding to death by those arrows? Taro

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (350585)	9/14/2007 1:22:32 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577143

Why should we honor people who believe in an imaginary being, go to a place where the hostile natives believe in a different imaginary being trying to get them to change sides? Crazies dealing with crazies, and evolution moves on..

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (350585)	9/14/2007 2:05:37 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577143

Absolutely, they were martyrs just as the Apostles Paul and Peter were. I believe I recall reports that they could have escaped death by conversion to Islam.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (350585)	9/21/2007 3:22:31 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577143

The two Korean missionaries who were executed are martyrs in the traditional sense of the word. See, o wise one......everyone has had to pay for your friends' 'martyrdom' including American troops in Afghanistan. Stupid is as stupid does! South Korea also has about 1,200 troops on a reconstruction mission in Iraq. The country recently repeated a pledge to withdraw some 200 troops from Afghanistan in order to secure the release of a group of South Korean aid workers taken hostage by the Taliban. ap.google.com