Jesus popular in China

[missmuffet]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/04/11/jesus-may-be-more-popular-than-mao-in-china/?intcmp=HPBucket

 

Results of an online survey suggest that Jesus and Christianity are more popular than Chairman Mao and Communism, on China’s version of Twitter.

Researchers at Tea Leaf Nation—an online magazine that studies media trends in the country— recently scanned the social media platform Weibo for Christian terms and found they are quite popular, despite the country’s tight control on religion, the Christian Today website reported.The survey discovered the word ‘Bible’ produces more than 17 million results, but “Quotations of Chairman Mao’—a text known in the West as ‘The Little Red Book’ only had 60,000 results.

The ‘Quotations’ book contains excerpts from speeches and writings of Mao Zedong, the former leader of the Communist Party in China. The book –which was widely distributed in China during the Cultural Revolution -- has reportedly sold more than a billion copies.

More than 18 million posts mentioned Jesus, while Chinese President Xi Jinping was only mentioned on Weibo about 4 million times.

'God' received more than 165 million Weibo mentions. That's more than 18 times the searches for 'Mao Zedong'. The words 'Christian Congregation' appeared more than 41.8 million times, but the 'Communist Party' only got 5.3 million results.

When it comes to holidays, Christmas appeared nearly 150 million times, while Chinese National Day only got 50 million mentions.

Human rights groups complain that although the Chinese government says it allows religious freedom, it enforces strict controls, especially on Christians, Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists.

Tea Leaf Nation researchers found China's thousands of government censors did put limits on some searches. When they tried to find the term 'underground church' on the network, they received a screen message saying "results cannot be displayed due to relevant laws and regulations".

The Tea Leaf site attributes the Christian-themed engagement to declining interest in Communist ideology, and the fast growth of the religion in China in the past few decades.

There are an estimated 1.35 billion people living in China. Official Chinese government figures put the number of Christians in China at 25 million, but external observers with more knowledge of the underground church situation say the number is closer to around 60 to 100 million, according to Christian Today.

About half of China's estimated 100 million religious followers are Christians or Muslims, with the rest Buddhists or Daoists, the government says, though it thinks the real number of believers is probably much higher, Reuters reported

[Atwood]

I could easily envision China becoming the next great "Christian" nation, while others recently considered part of "Christendom" sink into paganism. It may be that generally each region of the world gets its turn at rising to become professed Christian only to stagnate and decline back into paganism. At one time where the Roman empire was, the religion was professed Christianity, even in areas which today honor Islam.

[missmuffet]

I could easily envision China becoming the next great "Christian" nation, while others recently considered part of "Christendom" sink into paganism. It may be that generally each region of the world gets its turn at rising to become professed Christian only to stagnate and decline back into paganism. At one time where the Roman empire was, the religion was professed Christianity, even in areas which today honor Islam.

I have heard that there was alot of Christianity in China.More so than the USA?

[Fez]

Jesus might be popular in China, and there are a lot of churches, but what does "popular" mean?

 

Movie stars are popular in China as well....

[OakWood]

Jesus might be popular in China, and there are a lot of churches, but what does "popular" mean?

 

Movie stars are popular in China as well....

 

We can only speculate, but hopefully if there's an interest it might turn into something special. China doesn't appear to be mentioned in prophecy - maybe they will become a Christian nation and just become part of the big flock with no special role to play.

[missmuffet]

Jesus might be popular in China, and there are a lot of churches, but what does "popular" mean?

 

Movie stars are popular in China as well....

pop·u·lar

ˈpäpyələr/  

adjective

adjective: popular

1. 1.

   liked, admired, or enjoyed by many people or by a particular person or group.

   "she was one of the most popular girls in the school"

   synonyms: well-liked, favored, sought-after, in demand, desired, wanted; More

[Organic Medicine]

I think that the more perceptive among the chinese people,have noted that the greatest culture in history

has come from a christian/ judeo basis,and logically they want to know why that is so. Why would they not be included among the gentiles who would e converted when the time came ? They are after all created by the same God,as created us westerners. They were simply not ready to recieve the knowledge of Him,as were the Jewish people,whose culture was more developed at that time and capable of hearing God's voice.

The chinese history and culture has been well ordered for a long time,ordered enough and wise enough to begin to move forward to be converted to a love of Jesus,and what He stands for.

Edited April 12, 2014 by Organic Medicine

[just_abc]

that the greatest culture in history

 

I am sorry but I don't fully understand - what is the 'greatest' culture in history?

 

 

The chinese history and culture has been well ordered for a long time,ordered enough and wise enough to

 

I think that for a person to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour - does not depend on their culture having to be considered as 'developed' or 'ordered'.  To accept Jesus or not - is a choice made by an individual.

 

Sorry - just some thoughts that's all.  I hope I did not misunderstand.  No offence intended.

 

Thank you.

Edited April 13, 2014 by just_abc

[Guest]

 

 China doesn't appear to be mentioned in prophecy - maybe they will become a Christian nation and just become part of the big flock with no special role to play.

 

Some think they see China in Rev 9:16

[OakWood]

 

 

 China doesn't appear to be mentioned in prophecy - maybe they will become a Christian nation and just become part of the big flock with no special role to play.

 

Some think they see China in Rev 9:16

 

The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.

 

Possible, I guess. That's two hundred million.