Jeffrey Fowle Admits To Intentionally Leaving Bible in North Korea
Via One Free Korea comes news of just how stupid former North Korea detainee Jeffrey Fowle is:
An American who is back home after being detained in North Korea says he left a Bible in a nightclub hoping it would get into the hands of the underground Christian church.
Jeffrey Fowle said Friday that he left the Bible under a trash bin at a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjinin in an effort “to spread the Gospel out to the remote corners.”
Fowle arrived in North Korea on April 29. He was detained after North Korean officials found the Bible.
Fowle said he had left his name in the Bible and hoped a Christian would find it.
Fowle was detained for nearly six months. He returned to his home in Ohio last week after negotiations involving retired diplomat and former Ohio Congressman Tony Hall. [Associated Press]
You can read more at the link and according to this interview he did he is not sorry for his action as at all.
I think One Free Korea sums up quite well at his site Fowle’s stupidity.
Selfish, arrogant a55. In addition to the financial costs of securing his release who knows what else was given to the DPRK. This also makes it worse for anyone else who ends up being stuck there because now they’ll just use this d-bag as an example of people intentionally going there to make some dumb point.
I wish that we could all agree that if you are held in North Korea, and you weren’t kidnapped from somewhere else, you are on your own; we’re not going to rescue you. I see zero empathy for anyone stupid enough to go there, so why does the government bother?
It always amused me that an all powerful being would need the help of a douche bag like this to spread its message.
Leon, you miss the point, which Smokes elucidated well. God doesn’t need folks who leave their Bible in the toilet of some foreign bar. He doesn’t need anything. He’s God.
OTOH, He did tell us “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
That’s all out in the open. Billy Graham gave Kim Jong Eun’s grand-daddy a Bible to his face and preached the same message he did for over 50 years. He had no trouble. I think it’s all about being honest. Don’t act like a spy.
Mind you, I’m pretty certain Jeffrey Fowle was not wearing a reflective belt at the time; but his folks back in Ohio were not real supportive of his efforts, either..
*YAWN*
Anyhoo. Some of the more interesting election results are some of the state level ballot initiatives.
http://www.cnn.com/election/2014/results/race/ballot
Some spread the Word loudly from a soapbox… others invasively door-to-door… and yet others quietly from under a trash bin.
The Lord does indeed work in mysterious ways.
One thing is for sure…
God needs to have a talk with the human resources department to see if there is a way to downsize those of the flock which give the whole organization a bad image… maybe institute a background check or an IQ test before hiring… perhaps more in-house training… better pay and benefits… 72 virgins, like what the competition pays.
Granted, Allah has bigger personnel problems right now… but at least Allah is handing out territory and war brides… so morale is high and Islam is beating out the Christian communities in some areas. Commission sales works.
Spreading God’s word doesn’t let you behead anybody or tag a 14 year-old Kurd… it just gets you a couple months in a North Korean jail cell. That’s no way to run a marketing department.
Come on, God, I’m not even an omnipotent being and I know if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
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