Christians were enough of a force to nearly bring down the last chinese dynasty. Part of the Taiping agenda was to substitute bible study in place of the Confucian Classics for civil service exams. We can only imagine christian "potential" in china today.
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The <b>Taiping Rebellion (1851â1864) </b>was perhaps the bloodiest civil war in human history, a clash between the forces of the Qing Empire in China and those inspired by a Hakka self-proclaimed mystic named Hong Xiuquan, a Christian convert who had claimed that he was the new Messiah and younger brother of Jesus Christ.
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The <b>Taiping Rebellion (1851â1864) </b>was perhaps the bloodiest civil war in human history, a clash between the forces of the Qing Empire in China and those inspired by a Hakka self-proclaimed mystic named Hong Xiuquan, a Christian convert who had claimed that he was the new Messiah and younger brother of Jesus Christ.