Real Christianity is exploding in China. People are coming to know Christ and not just searching for the church with the best amenities as our “seekers” are doing in America.
Look at it this way: if they print a gazillion bibles in China, how many get “scrapped” and scratched from the inventory or how many cases fall off the trucks on their way to the ports? How many get smuggled out of the factories each day?
As a side note...China will eventually override the US for consumer...they will not only manufacture Bibles...they will be able to buy them....China cannot reach it’s International Goals without opening itself up...and it will.
Yes, I thought of that, too, but that doesn’t excuse American distributors—by that, I mean “Christian” companies like Crossway, not secular—that are getting a better deal in China with these Bibles.
The gazillion Bibles are in a foreign language. The people in China can’t read them.
Your idea is a good one, but they do not print a gazillion Bibles in Chinese.
Regular Chinese people still often have to have Bibles that are illegally smuggled to them.
I agree. I fail to see the point of the author's outrage. I'm glad they are printing Bibles in China!
You can imagine anything you want. That doesn’t change the fact that Christian publishers and Bible-buyers are taking advantage of the cheap labor in China while doing nothing to impact religious freedom for the Christians there. How can American Christians in good conscience participate in what amounts to financially backing government policies in China that hurt Chinese Christians?