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| Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:24PM | | | | Voyeuring Up | Tags: Prayer, public schools, Christianity, Quakers, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos
| | | | Matthew 6:1-8
Jesus was pretty clear: don’t pray to be seen, don’t do good works to be seen, charity should be secret, and God will openly reward you. Well, maybe God will. But God’s rewards have a tendency to be delayed in shipping.
Jesus’ followers have a hard time believing Jesus meant what he said. Criminal suspects lawyer up. Religious suspects voyeur up. We want spectators, crowds gaping at us in wonder and admiration. We pray for paparazzi to catch images of us doing good things. We want to be heard when we pray. We announce with pride and satisfaction that we are doing these good deeds in the name of our church. We don’t have time to wait for God to reward us; let the... | | | | | | | Friday, October 12, 2007 6:16PM | | | | Re-thinking Vietnam | Tags: Vietnam, died in vain, War Atrocity Museum, Saigon, Berlin Airlift, Eisenhower, Truman, US, UN, Korean War, Kennedy, Laos, southeast asia, SEATO. ASEAN, nuclear war, communists, communism, Kruschev, Westmoreland, Nixon, China, Brezhnev, Cold War, Ford, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, CIA, Team B, Soviets, Arms Control, Reagan, Iran/Contra, arms race, Iron Curtain, San Antonio Express-News
| | | | April is the pucker factor for Vietnam Veterans. Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army on April 30. Every anniversary Vietnam vets are told again that their service, suffering and sacrifice was for nothing, that their comrades died in vain.
In 1989, the War Atrocity Museum in the city still called Saigon displayed the photograph of the arch war criminal, Dwight Eisenhower. The Vietnamese consider him the primary villain because he did not sign the Peace Accord between France and Vietnam but signed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) agreement committing the US to defend South Vietnam. More foreign troops, other than US, fought in Vietnam under the SEATO Treaty than fought in Korea under the UN flag or in the Coalition... | | | | | |
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