Criminal
11-15-2004, 10:47 AM
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/catholic_stories/cs0087.html
No, it didn't make sense to me ether. But I suppose if you are going to be behind a cause its better to turn to Jesus than a genocidal dictator. :hmm:
The killing ended only with the Vietnamese invasion which drove the Khmer Rouge out of power and into the jungle. Now, some of them have re-emerged, bearing not guns, but Bibles, a reminder of how the Gospel can succeed where man cannot.
The attempt to eliminate religion was at the heart of the killing fields. For Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, religion was superstition and an impediment to his plans for a better Cambodia .
If Pol Pot were alive today, he would be shocked to read the headline in a recent edition of London 's Guardian newspaper: "Khmer Rouge Embraces Jesus." According to the story,"at least two thousand" former Khmer Rouge soldiers "now worship Jesus."
The town of Pailin in southwestern Cambodia is the center of this movement. As one pastor told the Guardian, 70 percent of the converts there are former Khmer Rouge. Many of them have testimonies similar to Thao Tanh. He said that "when I was a soldier I did bad things . . . We were following orders and thought it was the right thing to do . . . I read the Bible, and I know it will free me from the weight of the sins I have committed."
The effects of the conversions transcend the merely personal. They have played an important role in bringing the Khmer Rouge "in from the cold" to help promote national unity.
The people of Pailin understand what many here
No, it didn't make sense to me ether. But I suppose if you are going to be behind a cause its better to turn to Jesus than a genocidal dictator. :hmm:
The killing ended only with the Vietnamese invasion which drove the Khmer Rouge out of power and into the jungle. Now, some of them have re-emerged, bearing not guns, but Bibles, a reminder of how the Gospel can succeed where man cannot.
The attempt to eliminate religion was at the heart of the killing fields. For Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, religion was superstition and an impediment to his plans for a better Cambodia .
If Pol Pot were alive today, he would be shocked to read the headline in a recent edition of London 's Guardian newspaper: "Khmer Rouge Embraces Jesus." According to the story,"at least two thousand" former Khmer Rouge soldiers "now worship Jesus."
The town of Pailin in southwestern Cambodia is the center of this movement. As one pastor told the Guardian, 70 percent of the converts there are former Khmer Rouge. Many of them have testimonies similar to Thao Tanh. He said that "when I was a soldier I did bad things . . . We were following orders and thought it was the right thing to do . . . I read the Bible, and I know it will free me from the weight of the sins I have committed."
The effects of the conversions transcend the merely personal. They have played an important role in bringing the Khmer Rouge "in from the cold" to help promote national unity.
The people of Pailin understand what many here