It is not only about the difference political and social system between China and the western world. It is the fundemental difference between the human nature of us, Chinese and those of westerners. Chinese culture, history, philosophy and religion and thus their human nature are very different from those of westerners. In an emerging world we live in today, even going back to three hundred years ago when CHritiananity had its roots in China, we Chinese welcomed with revolutional way such as Tai Ping Tian Guo. I am a Christian, I know Chinese people accept Jesus sometimes, but sometimes they do not, like many people here in western world. Of course, many of these are due to the sinful nature of human that Bible talks about and Jesus is teaching. We need time for this, but we can not say this in China is bad, that in China is bad. Thinking about the history of Chritianity in Europe, it has nearly two thousand years since the first come of Jesus. Of course people talk about human nature in novels and other writings. Well, books like Spiritual Mountain talking about Chinese religion and belief, our men and women, our heritage too. It may make you think of China may live in a very old age since you live in the west. But it is true, our own people is not that open to the west. We have opened ourselves before, but look what we got in return, the Opium War, and the subsequent civil war and the Japanese invasion. We are now open ourselves to the western world again, and we hope, they will not make us suffer the same way again. Or we will fight, with all the blood our copper skined people who drinks the water from Yanzi and Yellow river have. We will if they do the same way to us again. |