Let me just add that that experience was the biggest change in my life. CPT Mastriano and Chaplain Kelso turned me away from atheism. And the Chinese instructors demolished my infatuation with communism.
One of them spend several years in a re-education camp. The rest of them just talked about the general abuse, the public humiliations, the forced self-criticism, being paraded through the streets wearing humiliating signs. One of them, she is Mongolian, from Inner Mongolia. And one thing she talked about was how the communists pretend to have these harmonious views about the ethnic minorities in China. But it wasn't the case. The communists hated Mongolians.
I'm an Orthodox Christian. Very active in my parish. I have a Master's degree in theology and a bachelor's in political science (the two things you aren't "supposed" to talk about in public at parties, LOL). I love my faith, but I also love talking to people of other faiths and even agnostics and atheists. It doesn't bother me at all, and I don't feel insecure, since I know my beliefs are true (I studied this stuff at the Master's level because I figured hey, if my soul depends on it, what could be more serious? I need to have all the facts!!) But just the act of discussion with others, especially if conducted over a meal with beer, forms brotherhood and a common cause. My atheist friends have shredded some of their more silly arguments for atheism, while I have honed my theistic arguments to avoid strawman arguments against my atheist friends.
That you had these experiences at the DLI is so encouraging. We need Trump to help us keep this society from finally collapsing!!!!
Let me just add that that experience was the biggest change in my life. CPT Mastriano and Chaplain Kelso turned me away from atheism. And the Chinese instructors demolished my infatuation with communism.
Sounds awesome. What did the Chinese instructors teach you that changed your mind? Iād be really interested to know.
One of them spend several years in a re-education camp. The rest of them just talked about the general abuse, the public humiliations, the forced self-criticism, being paraded through the streets wearing humiliating signs. One of them, she is Mongolian, from Inner Mongolia. And one thing she talked about was how the communists pretend to have these harmonious views about the ethnic minorities in China. But it wasn't the case. The communists hated Mongolians.
Those are two great side-bonuses.
I'm an Orthodox Christian. Very active in my parish. I have a Master's degree in theology and a bachelor's in political science (the two things you aren't "supposed" to talk about in public at parties, LOL). I love my faith, but I also love talking to people of other faiths and even agnostics and atheists. It doesn't bother me at all, and I don't feel insecure, since I know my beliefs are true (I studied this stuff at the Master's level because I figured hey, if my soul depends on it, what could be more serious? I need to have all the facts!!) But just the act of discussion with others, especially if conducted over a meal with beer, forms brotherhood and a common cause. My atheist friends have shredded some of their more silly arguments for atheism, while I have honed my theistic arguments to avoid strawman arguments against my atheist friends.
That you had these experiences at the DLI is so encouraging. We need Trump to help us keep this society from finally collapsing!!!!