RE: Can bible really be interpreted as if there is no torment but you cease to exist
February 13, 2012 at 12:25 pm
(February 12, 2012 at 5:07 pm)Hoptoad Wrote: Only 2,476,633? Mao did a lot more than that over a shorter period of time and he wasn't even trying.
If people starving bothers, you feed them.
1. No, you misunderstood. It was the whole of the world except for Noah and his family. In Mao's era the equivalent would have been 5 billion by God - 5,000,000,000.
2. Ah the old Commie bashing routine. It's funny how often this particular ignorance crops up on Christian forums. Mao was initially fighting the Japanese invaders and subsequently set out to re-build China and turn it into a country strong enough to stop the repeated invasions that they suffered. The Americans had their typical anti commie knee jerk reaction and instead of helping to re-build China after the second world war, they funded and supplied Chiang Kai-shek and encouraged the ensuing Chinese Civil War. The USA also stopped food aid and medical supplies being sent to China. The result - millions died. Sadly, the size of the country is a major factor here. The majority of the deaths were from starvation in some of the worst ever recorded repeated crop failures in China.
And you think that if people are starving you should send them food? So do I. So do I. Did you?
Did Mao succeed? He dragged China from the iron age into the 20th century and on to being a super power. Along the way he certainly committed atrocities but I doubt they were any worse than in many other civil wars - consider England, America, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Cuba etc. There MAY have been a more peaceful way of achieving change but at least no country has dared invade China since then. As with Vietnam, many of the deaths are clearly attributable to interference from outside - USA mainly.
(For the record, I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the communist party nor in any way a supporter of communist governments. It is a lovely idea practised well in some Christian communes but human beings are generally not capable of living up to the ideals.)
