Shanghaiist: China home to the world's largest Christian population?

bwise

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:54:14 +0800

great. more suckers to come... So you want China to only get to hear what you believe? Life without without relationship with the Creator, without hope of filling the empty place that can only be filled by an intimate relationship with God? I am sorry for you, but I am very happy for the Chinese Christians.

stephenyang

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:58:08 +0800

great. more suckers to come...

guest

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:51:54 +0800

oh my god....I hope that we all can hold hands together and chant WHY WHY WHY we dont know but hey he has a beard and lives in the sky! Mission accomplished

guest

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:49:17 +0800

That's the one thing the Chinese government actually has got spot on - keeping a tight lid on religion - kicking out missionaries from the country and reducing the influence of the catholic church - which by the way still is against contraception. China and christianity, or any other religion which seems to generate an excessive number of fundamentalists, like Isam, sounds like a dangerous mix to me.

guest

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:50:20 +0800

Chinese Christians ... surely they have to be the worst dressers in the world.

guest

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:03:42 +0800

"I can just imagine the brand of happy clappy American "christianity being fed to these hapless youths." ---- You'd be surprised. Although there are some exceptions, given the restrictions placed upon Christians by the government, the Chinese church is much closer to the early church than it is to 'happy clappy' American Christianity. There's still quite a high social and even legal cost to adherence in China, which tends to weed out people who see the church as some sort of a road to riches or easy feel-goodism.

guest

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:08:21 +0800

Christianity is an abomination and has no place in China. I hope all the worst for people spreading this filth. If Christianity's next "golden age" is in China, then China is fucked and so is the world. They need to stay secular.

guest

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:39:13 +0800

I can just imagine the brand of happy clappy American "christianity being fed to these hapless youths.

guest

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:11:08 +0800

Great story, but the hyperlinks are too long and all of the bold is distracting

guest

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:59:29 +0800

Repeatedly using bold doesn't make your story more interesting, just harder to read. Please lay off it.

guest

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:55:15 +0800

Islam has a long history in China, long long before the arrival of communist party, check out the wikipedia if you want to know more. There's also presents of Judaism in Shanghai, brought over by Jewish refugees during WWII. Now days as far as I can see the government doesn't persecute religious groups unless they have political agenda, or advocate superstitious practice over scientific practices. (can't speak for the past since I am not that old). The last paragraph makes me worry, religion is suppose to be something private and personal, I hope China will remain secular in the future.

guest

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:51:01 +0800

"through Central Asia along the Silk Road across countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Syria all the way back to Jerusalem -- a vision which they say "thousands of Chinese Christians are willing to die for"." Very "end of the worldish" ala Revelations. I hope these groups can shed "CCP characteristics".

guest

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:41:47 +0800

woah superb story... who would have known?