05-09-2007, 03:37 PM
Husky wrote in #15
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Bad analogy, but here goes: <b>communism is like the forest-fire (often purposefully started by a christian smoker) that burns down all of an ancient, healthy, happy forest.</b> Christianity is the weed that springs up (is planted) in the fertile land once the fires have burnt out.
Barring countries or regions converted by force in the colonial era, isn't it funny that christianity doesn't catch on at all in Asia unless it is preceeded by the forest-fire of communism to clear the land of all the old ways first? <b>Asia seems to only be susceptible to communism, but immune to christianity otherwise.</b>
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I think the basic reason is Asia has large Indic infleunce. Commuism catches on as a way of social reform and burns existing order to make way for the Faith. You are spot on that the fires are set by motivated people. Mao Tse Tung was a student at Yale in China. I think the Cultural Revolution was to remove traces of Indic thought from Chinese traditional society.
To get the big picture you need to <b>study</b> Hegel ->Marx-> Pope Benedict. And start with why Judasim.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Bad analogy, but here goes: <b>communism is like the forest-fire (often purposefully started by a christian smoker) that burns down all of an ancient, healthy, happy forest.</b> Christianity is the weed that springs up (is planted) in the fertile land once the fires have burnt out.
Barring countries or regions converted by force in the colonial era, isn't it funny that christianity doesn't catch on at all in Asia unless it is preceeded by the forest-fire of communism to clear the land of all the old ways first? <b>Asia seems to only be susceptible to communism, but immune to christianity otherwise.</b>
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I think the basic reason is Asia has large Indic infleunce. Commuism catches on as a way of social reform and burns existing order to make way for the Faith. You are spot on that the fires are set by motivated people. Mao Tse Tung was a student at Yale in China. I think the Cultural Revolution was to remove traces of Indic thought from Chinese traditional society.
To get the big picture you need to <b>study</b> Hegel ->Marx-> Pope Benedict. And start with why Judasim.