Some of my Australian friends bemoan that nationalism doesn't really seem to have legs in Australian politics. I have my suspicions as to why that's the case.
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While I'm aware Christianity enjoys a poor reputation in China right now (due in large part to the heretical Taping rebellion) it's still catching on among some sections of the Chinese population in a way that's benign enough to avoid the hammer of the state crushing it.
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The thing is, if the Chinese pragmatism and ruthlessness is tempered with Christian compassion, it could create a society that's high performance, practical and high enough in trust to be relatively pleasant to live in.
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And frankly, I fancy the chances of survival and success in evangelisation over warfare.
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. . . it hasn’t yet. Chinese ‘Christians’ aren’t the same as Western Christians, FYI. Same goes for Koreans, other Asian ‘Christians’. I don’t think a thin veneer of pseudo-Christianity can supersede millennia of cultural programming & genetic trait selection.
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Not yet, no. Early days, yet.
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>Early days, yet. First Christian missionaries to China went during the 6th Century (and stole silkworm eggs to bring them to Europe). ;> I respectfully disagree. Chinese culture is antithetical to Christianity, & the Taiping Rebellion (worst war in history) precludes it, too.
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I think there was a FTN where this was touched on, right?
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Ethnarch is the guy who did the heavy lifting on that one, yeah.
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