Thursday, August 9, 2012

The Plain Truth on The Vietnam War

Using Don Tiger's index of Plain Truth and Good News articles here is a list of the articles about the Vietnam War written in the Plain Truth.

All articles are from the Plain Truth.

The articles are arranged chronologically.

1965
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE VIETNAM CRISIS Apr-65

1967
WORLD NEWS: VIETNAM Jan-67
HOW THE U.S. CAN END THE VIETNAM WAR...NOW! Feb-67

1968

PRIDE OF U.S. POWER-WHERE IS IT? Feb-68
IS VIETNAM IN PROPHECY? May-68
WORLD NEWS: ASIA'S FORGOTTEN WAR Jun-68
WHY PARIS CONFERENCE WON'T BRING PEACE TO VIETNAM Sep-68

1969
WHY THE BIG CHANGE IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY? Apr-69
THE ENDLESS WAR-VIETNAM Dec-69

1971

RED CHINA-A PAPER DRAGON? Jan-71
PERSONAL: I VISIT THE WAR ZONE May-71
THE PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR May-71

1972
AS THE PARIS PEACE TALKS GO ON ... AND ON...AND ON... Jan-72
PERSONAL: MEETING WITH PRES SUHARTO OF INDONESIA-VIETNAM AND FAR EAST Nov-72

1973
PEACE AT LAST? Jan-73
VIETNAM CEASE-FIRE" HOW LONG WILL IT LAST? Mar-73
PERSONAL: BEYOND VIETNAM Apr-73
PERSONAL: AFTER VIETNAM-THE NEW BASTION May-73

1975
THE WAR THAT WON'T GO AWAY 8-Mar-75
US FOREIGN POLICY COLLAPSING AROUND WORLD 19-Apr-75
INDOCHINA'S AGONY: MEN & BILLIONS SPENT IN VAIN 19-Apr-75
BLOODY BABY BANNED 19-Apr-75
GTA: ALL FOR NOUGHT 19-Apr-75
HANOI'S GRAND DESIGN? 19-Apr-75
WATERGATE AND THE VIETNAM DEBACLE 3-May-75
SOUTH VIETNAM AND ALL SOUTHEAST ASIA FALLING TO COMMUNISTS! HERE'S WHY 3-May-75
HUMANITARIAN EFFORT OR KIDNAPPING? 3-May-75
VIETNAM RETREAT PARALLELS NAPOLEON'S 24-May-75
AFTER VIETNAM-NEW ERA OF UNCERTAINTY 24-May-75
ART BUCHWALD: DETENTE WITH VIETNAM 24-May-75
SAIGON-BEFORE THE FALL 24-May-75
IN BRIEF: COMMENTS ON VIETNAM, PHILIPPINES 24-May-75
IN BRIEF: VIETNAM, HENRY KISSINGER 7-Jun-75

1983
THE USA: PARALYZED BY THE GHOST OF VIETNAM Jul-83

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Two Stories: Religious Hypocracy Turns Away a Believer, and an Elderly Man Remembers His Former Religion

Just saw some intriguing stories from Godreports.

First Saudi Woman Publicly Announces Her Faith in Christ.

A Saudi woman announces her conversion to Christianity. What caught my interest was her statement that the oppression of the morality police, a clerical police force that enforces religious rules throughout Saudi Arabia, seems to have caused her to become disillusioned.
“The morality police’s treatment caused me to not take fasting and prayer seriously and to eventually convert to Christianity.”
I had heard about this police force while reading Princess by Jean Sasson and the main subject of the book, Sultana, a Saudi princess who pours out the terrible injustices she has seen in Saudi society, speaks very negatively of this morality police, as an insufferable force that oppresses women and force them to live in a dysfunctional society according to a terribly narrow minded version of Islam. It does not surprise me that their oppression has caused this Saudi woman to be disillusioned.

The false prophets of Armstrongism are also guilty of this sort of sickening religious hypocrisy. And like the morality police in Saudi Arabia many of them from Herbert W. Armstrong onwards have also imposed an authoritarian way of life upon their deceived followers that stifles their natural potential in life. Many are the painful sorrows these false prophets imposed on us.

And now this story:

He Waited a Lifetime to see God’s Holy Book

A very touching story about one Mauritanian Christian who has a most intriguing encounter with one of his fellow countrymen.

It turns out this man came from a tribe that was Christian but was forcibly converted into Islam around 1950.