Thursday, September 9, 2010

"Send Bibles"-Gen. Douglas MacArthur

from my May-2009 post--
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR ENCOURAGED EVANGELISM


After World War II, in order to carry out the democratization of Japan, Five-Star General Of The Army Douglas MacArthur brought Christian leaders to the country to meet with Emperor Hirohito and encouraged mass distribution of Bibles to the population. MacArthur later stated to a visiting American churchman, "We must have ten thousand Christian missionaries and a million Bibles to complete the occupation of this land."
(Source: Rodger R. Venzke, Confidence In Battle - Inspiration In Peace, 1977, p.24-25.)


We did not send Bibles-we sent our best business brains- built Japan's infrastructure-and economy-so- now we have LEXUS - great car by the way!-but- few Christians...
Wonder if Mac Arthur's ideas are what made Truman 'upset' with him..(that thought filled question just came to me!)

2 comments:

Sam Huntington said...

We think Rev. Jones (and others) do far more damage to Christianity than they do Islam. Our point of view ...

christian soldier said...

SH-thank you for the heads up to your post--