Posted on 04/19/2014 8:27:20 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
"Officially, the People's Republic of China is an atheist country but that is changing fast as many of its 1.3 billion citizens seek meaning and spiritual comfort that neither communism nor capitalism seem to have supplied.
"Christian congregations in particular have skyrocketed since churches began reopening when Chairman Mao's death in 1976 signalled the end of the Cultural Revolution.
"Less than four decades later, some believe China is now poised to become not just the world's number one economy but also its most numerous Christian nation."
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In China, you’re only a Christian if you truly want to be a Christian. In the modern West it seems many Christians are only nominal Christians because it is expected.
I know a Chinese woman whose father was a general with Mao on the Long March. She fled communist China with her husband to live in the US, and she has become a Christian.
There are many more like her in China, who long for the Holy Spirit to enter their lives, and who seek something more than simply surrendering to the brutal corruption of the Communist Party and the crassest kind of nihilistic materialism.
People in China and Africa continue to accept Christianity in large numbers.
I also want to add that the state has no business supporting the gay agenda, nor does the state have any business hounding those who sin as homosexuals do. I am, like I think all FReepers, ashamed that the USA under Obama supports abortion and homosexual marriage abroad.
I’m reading Steinbeck’s EAST OF EDEN and your comment reminded me of the Chinese character Lee, who figures out with Chinese Bible scholars that in Hebrew Timshel means “thou mayest.” The meaning of that discovery being that we can choose to be good or to be evil. It’s a very good novel and I hope people continue to read it as one of the great 20th Century American classics.
China has more English speakers than the US. What people fail to grasp is how BIG China is.
We became arrogant and prideful.
I could believe that China has a lot of quiet Christianity going on in it.
Earthly prosperity fails to satisfy.
May God bless China and may China prove to be a blessing in the world. One characteristic of living Christian faith is radical voluntary sharing.
I’ve been preaching that for a while. I think that arrogance has been reflected in the unprecedented expansion of human government, which has subsumed a lot of the function that private charity used to undertake. The Caesar of old was treated as a supernatural god. Today’s Caesars are treated as secular humanist gods. It is not the people’s task any more to locate and establish good officials. It is officials’ task to bring the people on board with their agendas.
The underground Catholic church numbers are unknown and considering the terrible persecution and martyrs there along with the other denominations that flourish beneath the radar since the Communists came to power, I think China could be more Christian than the US.
It isn’t about numbers. This isn’t a competition. This is about the faithful in Christ who truly suffer. I can’t emphasize their suffering enough. They are in danger, persecuted, suffer and die because they have faith.
Our brothers and sisters are an example for me when I whine about being too tired to pray or grumble about the inconvenience of missing a meal once in a whle.
We are at the very beginning of statist imposition on religion. It’s going to get worse. I think before the end of this decade it will be difficult, but it is noting like the suffering the Chinese are undergoing to follow Christ.
That’s one Steinbeck I haven’t read. It’s next on my list.
Yeah, some posters are very Christian, and some are not!
Duplicate post. There was the setup with the usual fake title,...
More Christians in China than the USA?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3146502/posts
[Real title: China on course to become ‘world’s most Christian nation’ within 15 years]
...and the duplicate today. See how that works?
China is not free. Neither is Russia.
Our church has had a program to bring over seven Chinese college students per year to evangelize them. We have two boys right now from Yunnan Province. They very eagerly accept the Gospel. We know of many conversions.
I agree with your thinking. I am not shilling for Russia, Putin, or the mayor of Moscow. I just think some of the contrasts are interesting. In the US we have adopted “freedom from religion” in place of “freedom of religion”. I also believe that anyone who falls for the current “red baiting” is missing the existential threat our country faces from within. If we cannot beat donkey we will never wrestle a bear to the ground.
Why would we invite China and Russia to occupy our country? We are already occupied by hostile forces or have you not noticed?
“Duplicate post. There was the setup with the usual fake title,...
More Christians in China than the USA?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3146502/posts
[Real title: China on course to become ‘world’s most Christian nation’ within 15 years]
...and the duplicate today. See how that works?
China is not free. Neither is Russia.”
I think this “fake title” post has worked well for you since you keep replying to it.
Freedom is measured in degrees in most countries. Just how free are you in this country? How free will you be in 10 years?
There is too much hostility to religion in the USA. Mostly that is because the ones that are true to the Christian faith are not as malleable on where the Liberals want the USA to go on social issues. And, of course, the Liberals are hypocritical on church and state. They say they’re against church involvement on, say, abortion if they do not support it. But then they’re always for Liberal Democrats preaching at black churches to those Christians to vote for the Dems; they’d never say Martin Luther King Jr. should have stayed out of politics. Everything is situational with them.
Of course, Liberals always refer to MLK as, "Dr. King" instead of "Reverend King".
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