North Korea Religion

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Starting in 1910 people all around North Korea started to disown christians, and started to prosecute them. Even if you believe that there was a god you were to be tortured or sent to labor camps to work. By the 1960’s in North Korea, christians were out of site, at least the ones who were sneaky enough to worship in secret. Like every other nation you must worship the nation's leader, and being a part of another religion you are disowning your nation. Thousands of Christians were imprisoned, and many have been tortured or executed. Believers in christ meet in secret, risking themselves of getting killed or arrested. In North Korea everyone was involved in the persecution of christians.
North Korea is an atheist nation, who lived by their rules of not letting anyone seek attention to …show more content…
One verse from the bible sent Korea into a mass overload, Matthew 25:41-46 "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’ “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Koreans believed that if the lord did not answer the prayers or needs of the people, that he was useless. The result of discriminating all christians lead to the misunderstanding to all atheist in their

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