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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

I just read that thanks to the persecution by atheist leaders in China the good news of Jesus and the salvation that He offers has been brought to every province and every major city in China. People are accepting Jesus as their Lord and Saviour at a rate conservatively estimated to be 30,000 people a day.

Thanks to persecution by atheist leaders, where children are not allowed to be taught about Jesus until they are 18 years old (the exact same practice advocated for the atheist utopia envisioned by Dawkins, Hitchens and probably several if not all of the atheists lurking at this site), a spiritual hunger the likes of which is not known in other parts of the world is alive and well in China.

Thanks to persecution by atheist leaders, China is just a few years away from being the largest Christian nation on earth.
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  1. AnonymousJune 22, 2010 at 8:34 PM

    "China is just a few years away from being the largest Christian nation on earth."

    I bet you you are wrong.

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  2. WhatevermanJune 23, 2010 at 6:56 AM

    Thesauros babbled the following: children are not allowed to be taught about Jesus until they are 18 years old (the exact same practice advocated for the atheist utopia envisioned by Dawkins, Hitchens

    You really can't stop lying, can you? Did you know that this is a compulsion that can be treated with therapy? Here's a link that might be useful:

    http://www.truthaboutdeception.com/lying-and-deception/confronting-a-partner/compulsive-lying.html

    Seriously, Thesauros, how can you possibly justify lying this often? You can't claim to be a Christian while willfully ignoring the morality codified in the Christian Bible...

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  3. World of FactsJune 23, 2010 at 7:36 AM

    Thesauros lied by saying...
    ...children are not allowed to be taught about Jesus until they are 18 years old (the exact same practice advocated for the atheist utopia envisioned by Dawkins...


    "I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so (see Ibn Warraq's excellent book, Why I am not a Muslim). Moonies and scientologists get a bad press, but they just haven't been around as long as the accepted religions. Theology is a respectable discipline when it studies such subjects as moral philosophy, the psychology of religious belief and, above all, biblical history and literature. Like Bertie Wooster, my knowledge of the Bible is above average. I seem to know Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon almost by heart.

    I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum - you can't understand English literature and culture without it.

    But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.

    Richard Dawkins - The Independent, 23 December 1998

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    Personal note...

    Why would I not teach my kids about Jesus? I intend to do so... it's a great way to teach them about 'love your neighbour' and other moral behavior. I was raised like that, and I see nothing wrong with it.

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  4. WhatevermanJune 23, 2010 at 9:33 AM

    Hugo, if we truly cared about Makarios' well-being, we'd bring some Christians to this blog. You know, the people who actually read, believe in and base their behavior on the Bible.

    Maybe he'd take us more seriously if he saw "his own people" rejecting him, too...

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  5. World of FactsJune 23, 2010 at 10:22 AM

    @WEM
    I do remember reading a comment by a Christian who was blaming him for being so intolerant of people of other beliefs. But I also remember looking for that comment again and did not find it. It was pretty old though, from before I started reading Makarios' blog so that comment must be more than 1-year old now...

    Anyway, you are right, no matter what we say we are irrational non-believers, and he did mention that we 'are all the same' to him... so I guess only a Christian might be able to make him realize the errors and lies he expresses concerning non-believers.

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  6. World of FactsJune 23, 2010 at 11:32 AM

    People are accepting Jesus as their Lord and Saviour at a rate conservatively estimated to be 30,000 people a day.

    Just thought of something interesting to computer. Let's see...

    - 30,000 a day means 10,950,000 a year.
    - China has a population of 1,300,000.
    - Thus, 0.84% of China's population converting to Christianity each year...

    China is just a few years away from being the largest Christian nation on earth.

    A Christian nation, really?

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  7. ThesaurosJune 23, 2010 at 12:30 PM

    A Christian nation, really?

    A nation with the most Christians. Estimates currently have it as close to 90 million.

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  8. World of FactsJune 23, 2010 at 1:01 PM

    Yep, now that is accurate.
    So you can correct your own mistakes after all...
    Why not correct the other lies you wrote in that post while you are at it?

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  9. WhatevermanJune 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM

    It's a good thing bad math isn't a sin :)

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  10. AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 3:03 PM

    Hugo, I think you're missing some zeros on China's population.

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  11. Friendly TechnocratJune 23, 2010 at 9:19 PM

    I wouldn't worry so much about how many millions of Christians there are in China. I'd be more worried about how many readers there are on this blog. What is it now? 4?

    (Actually I only have about 1 or 2 regular readers on my own blog, so maybe I shouldn't say that)

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  12. World of FactsJune 23, 2010 at 11:04 PM

    "Hugo, I think you're missing some zeros on China's population."

    Correct, my mistake, it's 1.3 billion !

    @His Lordship The Gun-Toting Atheist

    I should read you more!

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