<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Feb 4 2007, 12:21 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Feb 4 2007, 12:21 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->In connection with this: Protestantism applied the Vietnam model to Korea, where the Protestant political leadership of Korea started ensuring that the politicians, army personell and police were christian. See Buddhism under Siege in Korea 1982-1996 and it's follow up Chronology of Events January 1997-December 1998.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
korea was not the first application of this model. Both sun yat sen and Chiang Kai shek were christians :
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->China's Christian warrior - Time magazine
"To my mind the reason we should believe in Jesus is that He was the leader of a national revolution," he later said. (Kai shek)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sun Yat Sen Sun died of liver cancer in Beijing while negotiating with leaders of the northern government on 12 Mar 1925. He was given a private Christian funeral service on 19 Mar at the chapel next to the Beijing Union Medical College.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There were some pretty wrenching local millenial movements in South China (such as Taiping). In addition to the imperial level missionary intrigue known as the Boxer rebellion in which all the western nations at least appeared to act in tandem (including japan)
The only question is whether the missionary enterprise factors in the Communists as part of their long range (in terms of decades if not centuries') objectives. In both the cases of China and Vietnam, the Commuinsists seem to have retarded rapid christianization, while still laying the mental groundwork for eventual christianization.
korea was not the first application of this model. Both sun yat sen and Chiang Kai shek were christians :
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->China's Christian warrior - Time magazine
"To my mind the reason we should believe in Jesus is that He was the leader of a national revolution," he later said. (Kai shek)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sun Yat Sen Sun died of liver cancer in Beijing while negotiating with leaders of the northern government on 12 Mar 1925. He was given a private Christian funeral service on 19 Mar at the chapel next to the Beijing Union Medical College.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There were some pretty wrenching local millenial movements in South China (such as Taiping). In addition to the imperial level missionary intrigue known as the Boxer rebellion in which all the western nations at least appeared to act in tandem (including japan)
The only question is whether the missionary enterprise factors in the Communists as part of their long range (in terms of decades if not centuries') objectives. In both the cases of China and Vietnam, the Commuinsists seem to have retarded rapid christianization, while still laying the mental groundwork for eventual christianization.