Quote:That's very noble and all, but you're simply promoting the installation of a different authoritarian power. And obviously you cannot do so with any concern for human liberty. The "members of a rural Christian congregation in eastern China welded pieces of metal into a cross and hoisted it onto the top of a worship hall," as in, they didn't harm anybody or try to suppress others' rights as you're suggesting theirs should be.
You insist upon using your western thought patterns to try to pound the Chinese into the mould you insist they occupy. They do not see it that way and their history warns them of the dangers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion...-East.html
Quote: State hostility towards Christianity is particularly rife in China, where more Christians are imprisoned than in any other country in the world, according to the report.
It quotes Ma Hucheng, an advisor to the Chinese government, who claimed in an article last year that the US has backed the growth of the Protestant Church in China as a vehicle for political dissidence.
“Western powers, with America at their head, deliberately export Christianity to China and carry out all kinds of illegal evangelistic activities,” he wrote in the China Social Sciences Press.
“Their basic aim is to use Christianity to change the character of the regime...in China and overturn it,” he added.
In the 19th century the West...mainly the British...were quick to use missionaries to spread western propaganda in China backed up by military power. The Chinese have not forgotten this.
