The growth of Christianity in China has been astonishing. At this point, it's no longer a question of if China will become a Christian nation, but when.
Since 1979, Protestant Christianity has been growing in China at a compound annual growth rate of more than 10 percent. There were 3 million Christians in China in 1980, compared to 58 million in 2010, according to Fenggyang Yang, director of the Center of Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University. By 2025, that number could swell to 250 to 300 million.
Interestingly, Protestant Christianity is growing much faster in China than Catholic Christianity, almost certainly because the Roman Catholic Church has practiced a doctrine of appeasement to the Chinese government. Given that Protestantism is a do-it-yourself religion, where anyone is empowered to decide doctrine based on their interpretation of the Bible, we could see the emergence of new and seemingly strange versions of Christianity, acculturated to China, and perhaps mixed in with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
To better understand what's going on in China, let's look back at the Roman Empire. There, both government and society had values that were at odds with Christianity. The religion was so foreign, the reaction was an incoherent mix of savage oppression, benign neglect, and attempts at cooptation.
Still, Christians eventually became the dominant group in the Roman Empire by compounding with a respectable yearly growth rate. But there was more to it than that. Christians were often over-represented among the intelligentsia, which gave them a strong cultural cachet, even as their innovative welfare work made them attractive to the poor. (Bone fragments show Christians were healthier and lived longer than pagans, almost certainly thanks to the church's welfare system.) And of course, the church's heroic work was great PR. After a plague, while most people fled to the countryside, Christians rushed in to help the people, like they did in China in the wake of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Logan Hughes
abstinence will grow fewer followers
Angel Richardson
Well I believe that since chinks are as stupid as they come.
Jeremiah Carter
>actively trying to remove Christianity That's like actively trying to remove shitposting from Sup Forums or dickbutt from reddit.
Jeremiah James
China should hurry up and place religion under the mental disorder category to prevent this mind cancer from spreading.
Grayson Carter
>BUT MUH ATHEISM IS GROWING WITH EACH PASSING YEAR
o i am laffin
John Peterson
>Emergence of new and seemingly strange versions of Christianity, acculturated to China, and perhaps mixed in with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
I impatiently await for this new syncretic religion to create doctrine and papers to be translated into the English language.
Leo Nguyen
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Dylan Barnes
DEUS VULT
Grayson Ramirez
DEUS VULT
Charles Myers
Chinese pope when?
Grayson Martin
In the West, where governments were influenced by socialism and actively take care of their people, the people no longer turn to Christianity for comfort.
Julian Miller
maybe when they become a christian nation they will crusade against islam.
Jeremiah Garcia
Friendly reminder that Islam is currently the fastest growing religion.
Christianity is inherently anti nationalist. This is just bullshit.
Anthony White
This is just another growing fad based on their obsession with white people.
Adrian Davis
>tfw should have done what the japs did and remove the christian cancer
Andrew Gomez
Wow, up to like, 2% of their population. That's great. Fuck off christcuck.
Aiden Hernandez
That is a good analogy.
It makes sense that China is going in this direction. They have been behind so now they are reaching the religion phase in their development. Eventually theyll enter into the phase where theyll wonder why they let religion dictate their lives without scientific evidence?
Hudson Price
I have a Chinese Christian friend. He is more Christian than me. Literally at church every Sunday.
James Turner
What did the Japs do against the Christian meme cancer?
David Price
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Joseph Powell
>Protestantism is a do-it-yourself religion >Bible can be interpreted so many different ways other than what is obvious to a man with the Holy Spirit
Catholics actually believe this.
MAN IS FALLIBLE, PUT NO FAITH IN HIM, ONLY THE LORD.
ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD BREATHED.
Christopher James
>get persecuted and have the government make fake bishops while real bishops are smuggled into china >appeasing them
Aaron Morgan
That is because socialism is a tool to dominate and impoverish a population, it is trying to solve problems of the spirit in the world of the physical
Jayden Bailey
>Given that Protestantism is a do-it-yourself religion, where anyone is empowered to decide doctrine based on their interpretation of the Bible, we could see the emergence of new and seemingly strange versions of Christianity, acculturated to China, and perhaps mixed in with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
>socialism is a tool to dominate and impoverish a population
Gavin Collins
>not knowing about japs purging christians Have you never seen Samurai Champloo? They used to do what you're supposed to do with foreign subversives: they persecuted and killed them.
Brought by Spanish, Portugese, and Italian missionaries in the 16th century, became very popular with the lower classes and a good chunk of the upper classes, especially in the south of the country, was banned after the Shogun realised it was a threat to his authority (really oversimplifying a lot here), missionaries were killed or expelled, Christians got a genocidal treatment, there were a few uprisings, but ultimately they had to go into hiding,
Anyway, almost 300 years later, the ban was lifted after the Americans did a bit of gunboat diplomacy, and the Paris Foreign Missions Society decided to go proselytize, a priest was sent to Nagasaki, and a church was built. Here's what happened:
"On March 17, 1865, shortly after the completion of the original cathedral, Father Petitjean saw a group of people standing in front of the cathedral. They indicated to the priest that they wanted him to open the doors. As the priest knelt at the altar, an old woman from the group approached him and said "We have the same feeling in our hearts as you do. Where is the statue of the Virgin Mary?"[3] Petitjean discovered that these people were from the nearby village of Urakami and were Kakure Kirishitans, descendants of early Japanese Christians who went into hiding after the Shimabara Rebellion in the 1630s. A white marble statue of the Virgin Mary was imported from France and erected in the church to commemorate this event. The bronze relief in the courtyard below the church shows the memorable scene of the discovery. Before long, tens of thousands of underground Christians came out of hiding in the Nagasaki area. News of this reached Pope Pius IX, who declared this "the miracle of the Orient." "
Michael Clark
>bringing up history >then posts >Have you never seen Samurai Champloo Are you serious?
Zachary Watson
China belongs to Islam. Sorry christcucks.
Evan Price
Never seen the show. Just curious.
Alexander King
This is how you screen capture like a boss.
Easton Martin
>Chinese Pope >Calls new Crusade
What a strange timeline we live in.
Luke Gray
>The Taiping Rebellion began in the southwestern province of Guangxi when local officials launched a campaign of persecution against a Christian sect known as the God Worshipping Society led by Hong Xiuquan, who believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ. For fuck's sake China.
>China acts dumb and plunges itself into civil war >just in time as Japan rearms, rewrites its history and goes for a doover ffs
Jack Martinez
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Owen Martin
China enslaves Christians or uses them for organ harvesting. It's pretty awful that nobody seems to care.
Charles Turner
China is already n°1, why do they need to be "saved" ?
Aaron Smith
Thanks for the information.
Sounds kinda creepy that they lurked amongst them for so long
Justin Wright
>Protestants >calling for a crusade >or having an official head of religion
Jason Perry
>actively trying to remove Christianity the blood of martyrs is the seed of the church
Blake Taylor
Based China
Jonathan Hall
>mixing Christianity with Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism Then it's not protestant Christianity, who wrote this?
As the author said, you need to interpret the Bible. Keyword here, "BIBLE", which says you can only have one god (God).
Elijah Hall
This is a travesty.
As a secular society that gives no fuck for the universal morals of the west, and has no problem telling outsiders to fuck off or killing them if they start to interlope, China has some defense against islam. A christian China will "love thy neighbor" and "turn the other cheek" while the caliphate rapes their shit. Exactly what's happening in Europe right now.
Seriously, fuck this turn of events. Fuck it to hell.
Luis Jackson
>Actually uses like a boss
I don't think you're from here
Andrew Stewart
Please this! Is this why we have Evangelion now?
Gabriel Peterson
you get china, we get europe :^)
Jaxson Lewis
The chinese are trying to get one of those soul things they have heard so much about. This is good news. Atheists are nation wreckers.
Isaac Ramirez
>Can Christianity save China? Theyre about to take over the world. Why do they need saving?
Justin Wilson
what if I convert right on the edge of the cliff
Evan Thompson
The Chinese version of Jesus' baptism?
Just...
How
Where does it mention coconuts
Nolan Lee
I saw you guys on CNN! :-D
Expect Anonymous!
Xavier Mitchell
EVA was Gnostic and Talmud kikery, user. That should have been easy to pick up on, especially with the name Lilith.
Oliver Gutierrez
Awesome, the guys on the right get a free live action Godzilla show where they interact with Godzilla! Sounds like fun! They even got that chilled out X-Men guy playing some great tunes.
The people on the left just get to hold a giant scarecrow perch and be given a shitty Christmas decoration. Lame
Wyatt Wood
Christianity will turn China into cucks, just like it did to Whites. Soon we'll see Chinamen washing and kissing nigger feet.
Luis Perez
The entire story of Jesus is about being able to practice their religion, without persecution of the state. So instead of capitalizing on the inherent separation of church and state, and rending onto Caesar what is Caesar's and God what is God's, you persecute them. This plan has never worked.
Also, Christians in Japan were disproportionately prime ministers, and that ambassador that gave out a lot of visas to Jews was a Christian too. Christians are like Jews in Asia - suppressing them will not work and will blow up in your face. There is no conspiracy, just a set of directions that they all act on.
Justin Miller
thank you mr. bean
Carson Williams
Oh great,
Now you've given the chinks souls. They will let in refugees.
Fuck you christcucks. You killed the west with your turn the other cheek shit.
I want my necrons
Jason Morris
Nice misinterpretation of events, but the only ones causing the West to open its arms to Islam are Atheists.
Oh, and Catholics too I guess (see the Pope)
Ethan Young
I guess the best weapon is education. Thanks.
John Allen
isn't china like the second most atheistic country in the world?
only people that live out in the country side is dumb enough to follow a religion.
also fun fact, religion is synonymous to superstition in china, the association between superstition and religion is what keeps china safe from organized religion.
Dylan Collins
China is fucked up as it already currently is.
Isaiah Turner
The West cucked itself to death AFTER it gave up christianity, you übermensch of psychotic retardation.
Alexander Foster
"Everyone is equal" and other paeans to feel-good bullshit is uniquely christian. It's the source of our sense of morality, and it's the reason that no country in Europe now is nationalist.
Jason Taylor
Yes and it can save the west
Fedoralords, repent and get an azn gf
Hudson Flores
No. We may have abandoned the stories, but the morality and sensibilities remained.
Joshua Peterson
Atheism turned the West into cucks, user. Egalitarianism and multiculturalism are secular notions of tolerance.
Christians are intolerant of untruth and sin. Neither the Pope, nor a televangelist feminist ass kisser, or a gay lesbian transnigger priest are Christian. We know them by their works. The Bible tells us so.
Nicholas Hall
>tfw no virgin Christian chinese gf
Hunter Wright
>2% of 1.4 billion
If I gave that to you in dollars, would you want it?
Nathan Cruz
You fucking retard they were communists and are mostly still communists right now with one of the strongest anti-religious rhethoric in the world. It's more like they finally realize that atheistic naturalism is a huge pile of shit. In that aspect the west is behind china and even russia of all things.
Brody Lee
>saying everyone is equal is uniquely Christian Karl Marx was a Christian?
>it's the source of our sense of morality No it is not. The source of your sense of morality is Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and a few others. Granted, many of them are Christian, but if you actually take a time to read their books you will find that religion is not a dominant aspect in their works, most of their deductions are made with logic and reason.
>it's the reason no country in Europe is now nationalist That's more related with Marxism (who is openly anti-religious) than anything. And note I said "anti-religious", not "atheistic", Karl waged war on religion.
You should try opening a book to know your enemies user
Aaron Parker
We're living in a post sixty eight world, user.
Michael Smith
>Given that Protestantism is a do-it-yourself religion, where anyone is empowered to decide doctrine based on their interpretation of the Bible
Wrong
Camden Diaz
Chinese Budhism does not have a god, And syncretism is useful for initial conversion
Anthony Taylor
Egalitarianism comes from Jesus' message that all men are equal after death, from the lowliest beggar to the highest rich dude.
Multiculturalism comes from the teaching that Christianity is for everyone, regardless of their point of origin, and furthermore, the lack of nationalism as any kind of force in europe was due to christianity's anti-nation stance-- you LIVE in a nation without really being a part of it.
The emotional program that Christianity instilled in us remains even after the mythos is discarded.
Ayden James
I know, I know, I'm just kidding.
>Its more like how the French sided with the Protestants in the 30 years war rather than fellow Catholics.
Yeah, you're right. Richelieu is responsible for that. And only like 30 years later we took advantage of the siege of Vienna to attack the Habsburgs, which as you can imagine didn't really give us a good reputation in Europe.
Here's what the House of Commons had to say about Louis XIV: "The Most Christian Turk, the most Christian ravager of Christendom, the most Christian barbarian who had perpetrated on Christians outrages of which his infidel allies would have been ashamed"
We're supposed to be the "Eldest daughter of the Church", but we really don't have a spotless record.
Leo Ross
Baptist cut back on overseas missionaries so I don't think we got much going.
Nathan Anderson
>Christians are intolerant of untruth and sin. >religion is based on cuckoldry with a book thats been (((translated))) dozens, if not hundreds of times over the last 2000 years.
Carson Garcia
all BELIEVERS equal after death
Even in that, there is division. You don't accept Christ? You go to hell.
There is nothing claiming that men on the earth are equal, and women are and always have been unequal of men.
You're a contrarian faggot that hates God, though, so you'll blather on like a jew as if I've said nothing.
Jacob Richardson
There's no Jews in China to subvert Christianity
Brayden Hughes
Come on, if religion is so "necessary" for civilization, we should be able to come up with a new religion, not this tired old Jew shit. This simply another example Asians waring to copy Whites.
Michael Hill
Aren't there like 500 denominations of protestantism, that diverge considerably in every imaginable way?
Jaxson Hill
Funny thing is that Christianity was developed through a hodgepodge of philosophical inspirations of that time period.
What a thought that the source of morality is empathy, reason, and a collection of philosophies.
Nolan Ross
good stuff.
christianity has ironically been the most subversive, anti government ideology throughout all history. if the monarchs of europe didnt "convert" their heads wouldve rolled 2000 years ago.
Communism was satans answer to chrstian subversion after the monarchs failed, with mobs and underclasses being mobilized directly from the elites, but satan will be crushed by the power of the blood of Jesus
Christopher Carter
>You're a contrarian faggot that hates God Oh shut the fuck up. I was never raised in a Christian tradition, I have nothing but good feelings for what christianity did in Europe during the enlightenment, but if China converts to christianity, Allah will be the only name for your God.
Chase Ortiz
>Christianity was developed through a hodgepodge of philosophical inspirations of that time period You mean Jesus Christ?
Did you come up with that by yourself?
Aiden Myers
You will never have a Christian Asian waifu :(
Samuel Walker
>China Will Turn Christian In Our Lifetime
That's a myth instigated by Christian NGOs that largely exaggerate the number of Christians in China. The truth is that the growth of Christianity during the last years have been fairly modest according to reliable surveys.
You should remember that Taiwan also experienced a growth of Christianity, but it eventually peaked and now has stabilized at a small number of the population. I see no reason why China would be any different.
Nicholas Cooper
If not for christianity, you'd be under sharia law already. In fact, christianity is one of the main pillars of western civilization. The problem is not christianity, the problem are the faggots who forget that God can be as wrathful as he can be kind, atheist cucks with little moral guidance and traitors like the Pope.
Luke Rivera
>we should be able to come up with a new religion
Thinking that a novel experience is all you need is a symptom of the post-modern cuck. All religion, no matter whether new or not, is lost on apathetic fucks who wouldn't even pick up weapons to defend their own country from infidels and some, instead, even welcome them with open arms. There's a reason why religious folk is generally more conservative.
Justin Evans
I mean what I said.
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Gabriel Wilson
>be christian >fight muslims and destroy them when able >countries become less christian >stop fighting them and say it's simply the evil, old christian ways that made them angry and poor >still blame christianity for making people cucks
Logan Howard
Isnt it funny how christianity changes to suit peoples arguments? One second we are violent backwards animals, next we are soft commies turning men into cucks. Atheists are beyond retarded. You cant have it both ways.
Jackson Morris
>all BELIEVERS equal after death Yes. And everyone who lives is a potential believer, and therefore entitled to the same consideration as any other. Why do you think there are so many missionaries?
