Regarding
the estimated 200,000 women from the Philippines,
China and the Korea who
were forced to work as “comfort women” to “relieve the sexual
tension” of Japanese soldiers during WWII, a member of the Japanese
government stated, “women
forced to become prostitutes to entertain Japanese troops during
World War II were "necessary." Toru Hashimoto, who serves
as the Mayor of Osaka, told reporters at his weekly press conference
Monday that "anyone would understand" the role of "comfort
women" when soldiers were risking their lives and you wanted to
give them "a rest."
Other
politicians have said, “the
comfort women [issue] infringed the human rights of the women."
Chief Cabinet Spokesman Yoshihide Suga did not respond directly to
Hashimoto's comments but instead told reporters "the stance of
the Japanese government on the comfort women issue is, as it has been
stated repeatedly in the past, that they suffered unspeakably painful
experiences and we keenly feel the pain when we think about them."
Which
brings me to the point of this post. When atheists read in the Old Testament about the
nations that God destroyed because of the immense level of evil that
was present in those societies, evil that included sacrificing their
children as live burnt offerings and enslaving women by the thousands
to work as temple prostitutes or “comfort women,” atheists support
those nations and go after God for bringing judgement on that evil.
Here
are these atheists, men and women who consider themselves to be good people,
tolerant people (there's an understatement for you) people who think
that the rest of us should model our moral standards after theirs,
and they seem to stand shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Hashimoto.
It
seems that there is no level of depravity that atheists won't support
and defend - if God is against it. Sad but true.
