Monday, August 13, 2007

[new feudalism] lookout, here comes china

You can kill the body ...
Ten thousand Chinese become Christians each day and 200 million Chinese may comprise the world's largest concentration of Christians by mid-century, according to a Catholic Church report.

If the projections are even halfway right, Christianity will have become a Sino-centric religion two generations from now. China may be for the 21st century what Europe was during the 8th-11th centuries, and America has been during the past 200 years: the natural ground for mass evangelization.

The West has pretty well gone - shopping and hedonism are the new g-ds, pushed by the eco-humanist cabals to get the people enslaved and credit squeezes, carbon trading and iris scans are the blood payment, thereby leaving the way open to Islam. Quick check - do you see it possible Jesus Christ could save you from yourself and give you some comfort along the way?

See what I mean?

So let's move along. The West will have disintegrated by 2011, 12, 2018 tops, the police state is supreme and people have become serfs in their own countries [Britain pretty well already]. The SPPNA, which met an unexpected stumbling block in 2009, has now come back in a different form and all essential functions are in the hands of the CFR over there and the cabals in Britain/Europe.

Now the question is the EU joining forces with Britain and the NAU and with the UN, WTO and NATO lending a hand.

The big enemy is China - but not for the supposed reason. As the report says:

China, devoured by hunger so many times in its history, now feels a spiritual hunger beneath the neon exterior of its suddenly great cities. Four hundred million Chinese on the prosperous coast have moved from poverty to affluence in a single generation, and 10 million to 15 million new migrants come from the countryside each year, the greatest movement of people in history.

Despite a government stance that hovers somewhere between discouragement and persecution, more than 100 million of them have embraced a faith that regards this life as mere preparation for the next world. Given the immense effort the Chinese have devoted to achieving a tolerable life in the present world, this may seem anomalous.

On the contrary: it is the great migration of peoples that prepares the ground for Christianity, just as it did during the barbarian invasions of Europe during the Middle Ages.

Last month's murder of reverend Bae Hyung-kyu, the leader of the missionaries still held hostage by Taliban kidnappers in Afghanistan, drew world attention to the work of South Korean Christians, who make up nearly 30% of that nation's population and send more evangelists to the world than any country except the United States.

This is only a first tremor of the earthquake to come, as Chinese Christians turn their attention outward. Years ago I speculated that if Mecca ever is razed, it will be by an African army marching north; now the greatest danger to Islam is the prospect of a Chinese army marching west.

Great stuff. I always knew that the Chinese army was going to come marching to Israel and Har Megiddon, [a little north of Jerusalem - this forms the substance of my fourth book], all indicators point to this but never dreamt it might be a Christian army. Not bad, eh?

The article continues:

People do not live in a spiritual vacuum; where a spiritual vacuum exists, as in western Europe and the former Soviet Empire, people simply die, or fail to breed. In the traditional world, people see themselves as part of nature, unchangeable and constant, and worship their surroundings, their ancestors and themselves.

When war or economics tear people away from their roots in traditional life, what once appeared constant now is shown to be ephemeral.

In contrast to Catholicism, which has a very long historic presence in China but whose growth has been slow, charismatic Protestantism has found its natural element in an atmosphere of official suppression. Barred from churches, Chinese began worshipping in homes, and five major "house church" movements and countless smaller ones now minister to as many as 100 million Christians.

… in other words, back to the early church fathers and being thrown to the lions again …

The most audacious even dream of carrying the gospel beyond the borders of China, along the old Silk Road into the Muslim world, in a campaign known as "Back to Jerusalem".

Isn't that neat? The Chinese upper echelons are hell bent on economic and cultural imperialism and are completing the Super-Highway to Kashmir, on the back of western money and through to Jerusalem but probably never dreamed it would be used by mass forces of Christianity.

But don't forget:

Where traditional society remains entrenched in China's most backward regions, Islam also is expanding. At the edge of the Gobi Desert and on China's western border with Central Asia, Islam claims perhaps 30 million adherents. If Christianity is the liquidator of traditional society, Islam is its defender against the encroachments of leveling imperial expansion.

So while the Sutherlandic, Chiracic, Broonite pagan lost souls make everyone in the West indebted losers, enslaving society and wasting their time mopping up the last of the Christian resistance for no strategic reason whatsoever, [a little like Agent Smith and the boys in Matrix III], the real battle - between Christianity and Islam - will take place around Kashmir and then move on down across the now dammed Tigris and Euphrates, past Babylon [30 km south of Baghdad] and into Israel itself.

While William & Mary wastes its time locking the Cross away in a cupboard and the godless, loony feministi try to hijack the agenda in universities and other hotbeds of battle, while the line between humanitarianism and humanism is blurred to confuse the children, people's faith pops up in the most unexpected places.

The phenomenon is recorded in many books and films. I'm going to thoroughly enjoy it until they come for me and put me on that table. Then it won't be so much fun.

Does all this sound a little fanatical to you? I've always fancied being a fanatic - only I was too cynical and I'm not much good as an evangelist. Maybe I'm too far gone.

Yo, St. George! The Dragon's going down, man.

13 comments:

  1. Crikey!! Do you think I should repent? Or can I wait till 2011?

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  2. Hmm ... I wonder if there's a problem of scale here? Yes 100 million Chinese may be Christians but that still leaves 1,221,851,888 who aren't. Before Chinese Christianity can come to be a significant force in global religion it will first have to become a truly significant force in China itself ... it's got some way to go yet.

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  3. Interesting to see if they give mary a makeover. I want to go collecting " for the church" in China!

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  4. Confucius and Christ weren't so far apart, philosophically speaking, so it doesn't surprise me that the Chinese take to it quite easily however the current numbers are not terribly significant. What will be telling is how the government deals with its new converts as improved prosperity forces them to relent on general matters of personal freedom. Given a stark choice I suspect the government would prefer to nourish Christianity rather than let Islam get a hold on the country, particularly as it grows in SE Asia.

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  5. Persecution of Christians is still happening in China though.

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  6. Blimey! Great post, James. I never thought it would happen that way. Mind you, living in this little corner, it's hard to think of Christianity in the west being on its last legs. Though I take your point.

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  7. My call on this is that the freedom of conscience that is endemic to Protestant Christianity may well be the foundation (eventually) for Chinese democracy as it was for Western democracy in Europe after the Reformation.

    Don't hold you breath though - I reckon give it a century.

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  8. wolfie's right - Confuscius and Christ said very similar things.

    i cant see how this is a bad thing - rather Christianity taking hold than Islam :)

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  9. Very interesting! Was however on the lookout for the piece you wrote me about, but failed to find it. Since it wasn't relevant anyway (so you said), never mind. Cheerio!

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