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catman · Joined: 18 Jul 2004

Funny video I found on youtube. A westerner has his Korean brother in-law trying to get him to go to his church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrO2C37M_xY&feature=channel_page

I've had more conversion attempts here than I have had back home.

My supervisor at my very last school gave me the god speech but she was kind enough to leave it to my last day there.

Omkara · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Location: USA

It's amazing, the Christianity here. Not only have they accepted an absurd set of propositions, but they have taken to worshiping a white man.

Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Location: Not Korea

Yup and you haven't lived until you've ended up in a Korean Christian Coffee Shop. I never experienced so much anger and resentment while sipping a cup of coffee. Then again I was living in Daegu at the time.

Thewhiteyalbum · Joined: 13 Nov 2008

It happened 2 days ago! I was in a funny mood, so humoured the poor woman who kept lamely pointing at the words 'God is life' in her little book. I gave my name and number - 'Joseph Mary 010 1234 5666'. She seemed happy enough about the whole thing..

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Do you remember the "mother of god" people? They were really, really trying hard to get whitey. They would ask you if you knew about the mother of god. If you were foolish enough to suggest it was Mary, they would want to drive you to another location to teach you the truth. As it turned out, the mother of god was an ajumma. Who knew?

catman · Joined: 18 Jul 2004

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Technically Jesus was a middle-easterner, even though he's more popularly depicted as an Aryan.

And yes, we've all had the Jesus vampires come after us. Just the other day, some woman came to my apartment at work and was pressuring my wife to give her information about the foreigner who lived there. At first my wife thought it was some sort of census thing or immigration and I was in trouble, then it turned out she just wanted my soul.

One group that targets foreigners is the Church of the Heavenly Mother, or something like that. They believe their leader is the wife of God, God having died a couple of years ago.

Anyway, I guess it's karma, because Christianity was brought to this country by us foreigners, and then most of us figured out it was a waste of time, money, and life, then we come here and get it thrown back in our faces.

greedy_bones · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: not quite sure anymore

merkurix · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Location: Not far from the deep end.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

pidgin · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Location: Seoul

Once I was sleeping soundly between a split shift when I heard the chime on my door. Failing to prep, I opened the door with my long hair frazzled, tattoos a plenty showing, fully gooateed I asked, "What!?" The two older Korean ladies were visibly shaken but pursued. Out came the bibles and on went the rhetoric (in Korean). I took about a minute and shrugged, "no," and shut the door. (mid slam).

An hour later the chime returned and it was them again. This time they had a brand new shiny new testament bible for me IN English Laughing

I explained that I was not interested and am a practicing Satanist (I'm not). They didn't get it, but finally shooed after I fetched a copy of the Satanic Verses from my bookshelf toshow them and then I tried to convert them. They didn't last 15 seconds. Very Happy

In the warmer months (on the street) I usually flash a tattoo I have on my inner forearm that reads: 부처님

Can't stand those losers! Evil or Very Mad

besides, Ialready have a selection of bibles!

MattAwesome · Joined: 30 Jun 2008

i think some of the first koreans to talk to me in english were converters. I filled out a little survey saying I didnt believe in any of it and walked off.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Just remembered a weird one. I was waiting for a friend at the subway station, and some Korean guy came over and started making small talk. You know how Koreans are doing that. Then he pointed at the door of a very small church behind him and said "Do you want to go in here now?" as if he thought he didn't even have to explain why he was trying to drag me into a strange building.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

One guy on a subway once in Seoul wanted to tell me about Jesus and going to church. I told him I was into Allah and why doesn't he try coming to the mosque? I suppose it might be fun to agree with everything and be even more extreme than these nuts too.

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

There used to be these two Mormons that knew the person who lived in my apartment before me. They showed up like clockwork every weekend as I was getting ready to go somewhere or other wise busy.

They seemed like genuinely interesting people and I have no problems sitting and talking with them, so long as they don't expect to convert me. So, I gave them my phone number and said, "look call me and I'll have lunch with you sometime or something".

I didn't hear from them for a couple weeks when again they showed up out of the blue when I was busy. I bluntly told them I was busy and to go away. I didn't hear from them again.