Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Can God help the Korean Protestant Church?
Tonight, I saw, with interest, a TV program featuring a “religious war” between the Protestant Church and the Buddhists in South Korea. The church takes issue with the government’s subsidizing temples. I think it’s not really fair to treat both the religions on equal terms because Buddhism has been with the Korean people for more than 1700 years on the Korean peninsula. Buddhism happens to have been in the heart and soul of Korea’s traditional culture whether the Christians like the fact or not. The temple stay program, thus, deserves to be subsidized by the government—foreigners visiting Korea would want to see something traditional, something which is unique and original, rather than things they could easily see on their home turf. Could modern-style church buildings in Korea really provide for those tourists a place to find their “true selves”? What would happen if Islamists in England take issue with the British government’s taking close care of so many old cathedrals and churches which are relics of Christianity, claiming that the British government is taking sides with a specific religion over another?
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