Re: Re: Re: Jews

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:39:25 -0400, "zr" <ngzr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All religions certainly do not demonize. Nor do all religions take an
adversarial view of other religions.
Only Islam does this.

"In my initial post under this thread, I failed to mention the reseach
I am doing (for the last 18 months or so) at the Library of Congress,
which is the impact of Christianity on Chinese culture during the
16th,17th, and early 18th centuries-from a Chinese point of view. For
this purpose, I have read perhaps 200 books so far. Still, I find
posts in response to mine refreshing and perceptive; I thank you.
This post is added on the assumption that many readers may not be
aware of a Chinese emperor (Kang hsi)'s change of heart from tolerance
to the following, in 1721 (original in Chinese in the emperor's own
writing, translation is from Paul Rule's "Kung-tzu or Confucius?"
(1986), p 145; words in parentheses are added by me for clarification)
On reading this proclamation [from the pope, prohibiting Chinese
Christians from paying respects to Confucius], I can only conclude
that the Westerners are small minded. How can they talk about the
great ideas of China? No Westerners [who presented themselves on
behalf of the pope] understands Chinese books, and when they discuss
them, our people find many of their remarks ridiculous. Now I have
seen the Legation's proclamation, and it is just the same as Buddhist
and Taoist heresies and superstitutions. I have never seen such
nonsense as this. Henceforth no Westerner may propagate his
[missionaries at that time, all Catholics, were invariably male]
religion in China. It should be prohibited in order to avoid more
trouble.
From what I read, early Christianity in Europe sought tolerance when
it was in infancy, and switched to tactics to dominate once it had a
footing. Its followers tried to replicate this strategy in China, not
realizing that a footing, while firm in Europe with the conversion of
an emperor and such, may be infirm when that strategy is transplanted
to a culture with a longer and readily verifiable history, but of
which its followers have no knowledge, as suggested in the above
quotation."
David H Li


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