Forgot to comment. Related to this next excerpt from the link to Radha Rajan's article in the previous post:
indiafacts.co.in/generic-churchs-plan-india/
As far as I'm aware, christianism in South Korea never reached 40%. Nor has it ever yet reached 30%, though it's been inching there.
- There was another surge in conversion to christianism in S Korea around 2003/2004, as per Korean forums where christians (including aliens i.e. non-Koreans) were bragging about this, but this hasn't managed to break 30% yet.
- There's been a decrease in protestantism in favour of an increase in catholicism, some of which is eating into the former (protestants not happy).
- Not all of the christian converts have been made from Buddhism, as christianism has been eating from the remaining non-Buddhist population too.
Here's the actual (census) data:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_South_Korea
** 2005 is actually census data IIRC, in any case I've seen it confirmed elsewhere.
2 notable things:
1. Compare the level of Buddhism in S Korea in 1962 (2.6%, when christianism was at 5% and "other or no religion" was at 92.4% - some of this being Confucianism, some of it native heathenism and some of it atheism) with the percentage of Buddhism in S Korea in 1995/2005: over 20%.
At least some of this ate into Korean heathenism.
It's not only christianism that is missionary, after all.
Though not apparent in the above, the largest loss suffered is by the ancestral Korean religion. It now ironically stands higher in N Korea than in S Korea (some 1% compared to 5% IIRC, when before the conversion drive S Korea had a higher percentage of adherents of the native religion than N Korea. Meaning that the loss effected has been greater in S Korea). Not a century ago, adherence to the native Korean religion (and Taoism) and even Confucianism were high in both S Korea and combined Korea.
But Indian 'Hindu' peddlers of Buddhism will doubtless cheer.
2. After 1995 (note that this is after a significant wave of christianisation), Buddhism dropped a little while christianism still kept rising:
Btw 1995 and 2005, Buddhism went down 0.5% from 23.2% down to 22.8. Meanwhile Christianism has gone up almost 3% from 26.3 to 29.2%.
Even so, most S Koreans have no religion.
India IMO is being christianised along the lines of S Korea, by the same means and plan as for S Korea. This includes very much the co-opting of any economic development that happens in India into an additional vehicle for christianisation, and which will even come to be presented as an additional flow-on effect of christianisation (that jeebus-ism finally brought an increase in prosperity to "poor India").
indiafacts.co.in/generic-churchs-plan-india/
Quote:South Korea had 0.5 per cent Christian population in 1900. In 2000, the Christian population stood at 40 per cent. In 2010, South Koreaââ¬â¢s Christian population has allegedly dropped to 33 per cent while there is a corresponding increase in Buddhist population not only in South Korea but also in China and Japan.
As far as I'm aware, christianism in South Korea never reached 40%. Nor has it ever yet reached 30%, though it's been inching there.
- There was another surge in conversion to christianism in S Korea around 2003/2004, as per Korean forums where christians (including aliens i.e. non-Koreans) were bragging about this, but this hasn't managed to break 30% yet.
- There's been a decrease in protestantism in favour of an increase in catholicism, some of which is eating into the former (protestants not happy).
- Not all of the christian converts have been made from Buddhism, as christianism has been eating from the remaining non-Buddhist population too.
Here's the actual (census) data:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_South_Korea
Code:
Religion 1962[14]1985 1995 2005[1][need quotation to verify**]
Christianity 5% 20.6% 26.3% 29.2%
Protestantism 2.8% 16% 19.7% 18.3%
Catholic Church 2.2% 4.6% 6.6% 10.9%
Korean Buddhism 2.6% 19.2% 23.2% 22.8%
None or other 92.4% 57.4% 49.3% 46.9%** 2005 is actually census data IIRC, in any case I've seen it confirmed elsewhere.
2 notable things:
1. Compare the level of Buddhism in S Korea in 1962 (2.6%, when christianism was at 5% and "other or no religion" was at 92.4% - some of this being Confucianism, some of it native heathenism and some of it atheism) with the percentage of Buddhism in S Korea in 1995/2005: over 20%.
At least some of this ate into Korean heathenism.
It's not only christianism that is missionary, after all.
Though not apparent in the above, the largest loss suffered is by the ancestral Korean religion. It now ironically stands higher in N Korea than in S Korea (some 1% compared to 5% IIRC, when before the conversion drive S Korea had a higher percentage of adherents of the native religion than N Korea. Meaning that the loss effected has been greater in S Korea). Not a century ago, adherence to the native Korean religion (and Taoism) and even Confucianism were high in both S Korea and combined Korea.
But Indian 'Hindu' peddlers of Buddhism will doubtless cheer.
2. After 1995 (note that this is after a significant wave of christianisation), Buddhism dropped a little while christianism still kept rising:
Btw 1995 and 2005, Buddhism went down 0.5% from 23.2% down to 22.8. Meanwhile Christianism has gone up almost 3% from 26.3 to 29.2%.
Even so, most S Koreans have no religion.
India IMO is being christianised along the lines of S Korea, by the same means and plan as for S Korea. This includes very much the co-opting of any economic development that happens in India into an additional vehicle for christianisation, and which will even come to be presented as an additional flow-on effect of christianisation (that jeebus-ism finally brought an increase in prosperity to "poor India").