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The Rise of Christianity in China

According to a member of the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences:



This is interesting in light of the tremendous growth of Christianity in China, which is now about 20% christian. More Bibles are being printed in China (for local use), more churches are being built that in any country in the world. At one point in the 1950's Mao declared China free of religion. The increasing popularity of Christianity there is all that much more remarkable in light of that.

What with the decline in believers in the US it may be that the torch of Christianity will be passed to Asia at some point. Belief in protestant Christianity is directly proportional to a nation's overall prosperity, that is what the Chinese believe, and they gained that belief from their observations of Western culture.

Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson: 9780143122067: Amazon.com: Books

Post hoc propter hoc. A big cognitive mistake. That said, I'm glad Christianity is thriving in China and I'm glad China is thriving. With over 1B people getting the opportunity to be educated and contributed to the world, China will help make the planet more prosperous and advanced.
 
Sorry, but they left China out of the trend, along with a bunch of other countries. Biggest population of all and it wasn't included. Besides that, they simply asked people if they were religious people or not? What does that mean? And in hundreds of different languages with all sorts of possible meaning. Could mean anything from, "I'm not particularly observant," to "I don't belong to a mainstream religious group, but I worship Chuthulu," to "I don't believe in a god or gods." I would have said I'm not religious, too. And then changes over 7 years don't mean a lot. If they had data going back 30 years they would have seen a big drop in atheism in old Soviet Union (now at 5% in Russia) and in China.
I knew you'd play on the fact that the list isn't exhaustive. :lol: So I'm guessing that a majority is anomalous?

I'm fairly certain that statistics allows for anything lost in translation. Mathematics is universal, after all.

No, you haven't proven your case on that.
I dunno what to tell you, brah. The revisionism here lies more heavily with one of us.

It doesn't have to be unique to Christianity. You never heard of the Protestant work ethic?
It does indeed have to be unique, since the lady specifically cited Christianity as being the fulcrum.

I may have heard the term, coming out of an alcohol-induced blackout. I don't recall.
 
Post hoc propter hoc. A big cognitive mistake. That said, I'm glad Christianity is thriving in China and I'm glad China is thriving. With over 1B people getting the opportunity to be educated and contributed to the world, China will help make the planet more prosperous and advanced.
Absolutely.

Those Capitalist boys are famous for their lack of competition, and overriding sense of charity.
 
I knew you'd play on the fact that the list isn't exhaustive. :lol: So I'm guessing that a majority is anomalous?

I'm fairly certain that statistics allows for anything lost in translation. Mathematics is universal, after all.

They didn't ask the question in math, though. It was asked in many different languages in which the question might have various shades of meaning. Even in English it's ambiguous. Meanwhile, there's not much change in the more straightforward question about atheism.


I dunno what to tell you, brah. The revisionism here lies more heavily with one of us.

We'll see how it goes.

It does indeed have to be unique, since the lady specifically cited Christianity as being the fulcrum.

Yes, for a particular instance at a particular time. They did consider other possible reasons for the difference. A very interesting conclusion for a group that is probably made up of highly educated atheists to make.
 
They didn't ask the question in math, though. It was asked in many different languages in which the question might have various shades of meaning. Even in English it's ambiguous. Meanwhile, there's not much change in the more straightforward question about atheism.

We'll see how it goes.

Yes, for a particular instance at a particular time. They did consider other possible reasons for the difference. A very interesting conclusion for a group that is probably made up of highly educated atheists to make.
Agreed.

Good post, dude.
 
According to a member of the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences:



This is interesting in light of the tremendous growth of Christianity in China, which is now about 20% christian. More Bibles are being printed in China (for local use), more churches are being built that in any country in the world. At one point in the 1950's Mao declared China free of religion. The increasing popularity of Christianity there is all that much more remarkable in light of that.

What with the decline in believers in the US it may be that the torch of Christianity will be passed to Asia at some point. Belief in protestant Christianity is directly proportional to a nation's overall prosperity, that is what the Chinese believe, and they gained that belief from their observations of Western culture.

Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson: 9780143122067: Amazon.com: Books

Everything Niall Ferguson writes is worth reading.


And this surprises me not a whit. Superior culture is what creates success.

It's also worth keeping in mind that once upon a time China (at the time predominantly Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian) was the most powerful nation on earth while Christian Europe was a dump.
 
It's also worth keeping in mind that once upon a time China (at the time predominantly Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian) was the most powerful nation on earth while Christian Europe was a dump.
Then it became a dump, while Europe went on to become the most powerful trading bloc on the planet.

Of course, it's fortunes became somewhat restored, as China itself went on to own America.
 
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