With eloquent promises of paradise and listening ears, missionaries have a easier marketing job to defeat the local pagans in Peasantpore.
Missionaries only need to chant one mantra, 'faith and paradise'. That is a simple tactic to win over stupid chink peasants who have yet discover the secrets of critical thinking.
The Chinks have a long history of kowtowing to emperors, missionaries knew that and cleverly styled their deity as the big boss of the local milky way. The chinks have the old concept of seeing the emperor as 'son of heaven' and the missionaries gleefully put forward their founder as the 'son of god'. Chinks have old tradition of piety, that is a hard one, but the missionaries have moses to thank, by putting their deity on top of the food chain, they could appeal to chinks to sidestep their parents for their deity to secure a place in paradise. The missionaries cleverly cite while its the parents who give flesh and blood to their child, its their deity or St Peter who decide who enters the pearly gates of paradise. Chinks are practical and the missionaries exploit that by suggesting that wealth and parents are immaterial if you have paradise! A cunning but vile proposal.
The missionaries are active in Asia, why so? For the very reason that drove European traders to colonize foreign Asiatic countries - commerce. Likewise, the christian faith is constantly assaulted by advent of the Industrial and Scientific age. Church attendance has been falling throughout Europe and America in this era. The missionaries knew the only way to slow the decline and monetary shortfall is to make headway into foreign markets in Asia and Africa.
To date, the most formidable opponent that the missionaries encountered in South Asia is not Islam but Buddhism and Hinduism.
While Hinduism has yet shake off the burden of caste system, Hinduism pose a challenge to missionaries because the latter's root is based on logic and reasoning e.g. Vedas. The Hindus may argue that Buddhism is a deviant sect but the latter has proposed many valid 'reforms' and doctrinal challenges to warrant its survival despite the number of purges historically. The central masterpiece of Buddhism is the concept of self and the troubles it cause. While the Hindus may dispute or split some hairs with the exact definition of self, they realise that the cyclical nature of the universe may render the concept of 'God-King' redundant while missionaries are making a mockery of Jewish texts by producing poor torah translations.
Buddhism infiltrated Asia via China and Indo-China and certainly contributed to their cultural and religious developments but politics was the main consideration when numerous kings played off their opponents by dabbling in religions, flavoring local pagan religions at times or supporting foreign import e.g. Buddhism at regular intervals to secure their own political power. The collapse of Imperial Qing after the Opium War and the lost of national prestige during the first Sino-Japanese war forced the chinks to re-evaluate their cultural heritage in the global stage.
The unequal treaties that the west and nippon forced on the chinks had the ill effect of accelerating the growth of Anglophiles within Chinkland. Anglophiles love to defect to the winning side, hence they have no qualms to denounce their kin and friends to be on the winning side. Good examples are a couple of stupid converts e.g, Rony Tan and Mark Ng who rubbish pagans using the 'holier than thou' or 'my idol can fly but not yours' logic to secure more donations. Rony and Mark are classical examples of turncoats who will sink to the shadows to rubbish their old faiths because the monetary lure of their new deity is simply addictive.
The local Anglican community seems to be targeting bapoks rather than pagans? This was evident when Thio, Hong and Yang supported a silly coup by another messiah, Thio the Shrew to take over AWARE. The aim is to further their bapok bashing games using a NGO. The answer is in politics. The Anglicans are up in arms because the devil has stirred up troubles by ordaining gay priests in the west. The asian chapter has chosen to side with conservatives by bashing bapoks to showcase their 'holier than thou' credentials, Hong and Yang stand to gain by rapid promotions and prominence, hence they decided to assist Thio the Shrew to declare war on bapoks in AWARE than pagans.
The missionaries while gaining a upper hand against Pagans must eventually face a must stronger foe in Buddhism, the later while clearly Mahayana in nature in Peasantpore, has stronger infrastructure and 'grassroots' that will counter the communist like cell group tactics used by the missionaries in Peasantpore. The missionaries used Leninist cell groups effectively to consolidate their new converts and put them through pseudo logical study sessions aka brainwashing to cement the new converts. The Buddhist sects have taken a leaf from the missionaries and moved in recent years to cater to the English speaking peasants. The old tactics of using hells to frighten the peasants in godly behavior has desists and more intellectual stimulating discourse are used (but given the low IQ of local peasants, that is sure to backfire). Despite the superficial modernization of buddhist lodges, they remained disconnected to the ground spiritually and many are often involved in petty politics over donations and high profile squabbles involving wax-works elders in various lodges have the missionaries gleefully continuing their assault using cell groups and peer pressure.
However the greatest enemy to the traditional missionaries come from within, as City Harvest has shown, the real idol is always the Golden Calf. Using the seductive tactics of MLM and salvation via donations, the new Turks have upset the order that the older generation of missionaries have built up over the years. Despite the stupid adventures of ex-priest Kang, the missionaries have maintained a prim, proper and fuss free approach to busy peasants who are only too happy to confess their wrongdoings on Sunday but repeat them throughout the week. Kong Hee and his greed will threaten to shatter the pristine image of the missionaries. This is laughable because while on the cusp of near victory over the pagans, Kong Hee has undone at least 10 years of effort that his missionary pals expended to discredit pagans. The pagans have now some breathing room while the missionaries are mired in a PR attempt to distance themselves from the Kong and his greedy bunch.
The next move taken by the traditional missionaries will be to keep a low profile and examine why Kong Hee quietly stole a large number of stupid lambs. Kong Hee, Rony and Mark belong to the new generation of vile vermin who mix business with religion, remember the old popes mixed statecraft with religion before the Europeans got rid of them. Using wealth as a yardstick, they sell salvation based on blessings accorded to their followers by their deity. This is little difference from the old dirty tactics of the traditional missionaries but the similarities ended when you realise Rony put his family in important posts within his Church, mirroring the Imperial Family practice of ennobling their kinsman within the state of Peasantpore! The traditional missionaries are misguided by their zeal to preach the one true fairy tale but Rony, Kong Hee and Mark belonged to the latter group who seeks profits while sullying the name of their beloved deity!
Missionaries only need to chant one mantra, 'faith and paradise'. That is a simple tactic to win over stupid chink peasants who have yet discover the secrets of critical thinking.
The Chinks have a long history of kowtowing to emperors, missionaries knew that and cleverly styled their deity as the big boss of the local milky way. The chinks have the old concept of seeing the emperor as 'son of heaven' and the missionaries gleefully put forward their founder as the 'son of god'. Chinks have old tradition of piety, that is a hard one, but the missionaries have moses to thank, by putting their deity on top of the food chain, they could appeal to chinks to sidestep their parents for their deity to secure a place in paradise. The missionaries cleverly cite while its the parents who give flesh and blood to their child, its their deity or St Peter who decide who enters the pearly gates of paradise. Chinks are practical and the missionaries exploit that by suggesting that wealth and parents are immaterial if you have paradise! A cunning but vile proposal.
The missionaries are active in Asia, why so? For the very reason that drove European traders to colonize foreign Asiatic countries - commerce. Likewise, the christian faith is constantly assaulted by advent of the Industrial and Scientific age. Church attendance has been falling throughout Europe and America in this era. The missionaries knew the only way to slow the decline and monetary shortfall is to make headway into foreign markets in Asia and Africa.
To date, the most formidable opponent that the missionaries encountered in South Asia is not Islam but Buddhism and Hinduism.
While Hinduism has yet shake off the burden of caste system, Hinduism pose a challenge to missionaries because the latter's root is based on logic and reasoning e.g. Vedas. The Hindus may argue that Buddhism is a deviant sect but the latter has proposed many valid 'reforms' and doctrinal challenges to warrant its survival despite the number of purges historically. The central masterpiece of Buddhism is the concept of self and the troubles it cause. While the Hindus may dispute or split some hairs with the exact definition of self, they realise that the cyclical nature of the universe may render the concept of 'God-King' redundant while missionaries are making a mockery of Jewish texts by producing poor torah translations.
Buddhism infiltrated Asia via China and Indo-China and certainly contributed to their cultural and religious developments but politics was the main consideration when numerous kings played off their opponents by dabbling in religions, flavoring local pagan religions at times or supporting foreign import e.g. Buddhism at regular intervals to secure their own political power. The collapse of Imperial Qing after the Opium War and the lost of national prestige during the first Sino-Japanese war forced the chinks to re-evaluate their cultural heritage in the global stage.
The unequal treaties that the west and nippon forced on the chinks had the ill effect of accelerating the growth of Anglophiles within Chinkland. Anglophiles love to defect to the winning side, hence they have no qualms to denounce their kin and friends to be on the winning side. Good examples are a couple of stupid converts e.g, Rony Tan and Mark Ng who rubbish pagans using the 'holier than thou' or 'my idol can fly but not yours' logic to secure more donations. Rony and Mark are classical examples of turncoats who will sink to the shadows to rubbish their old faiths because the monetary lure of their new deity is simply addictive.
The local Anglican community seems to be targeting bapoks rather than pagans? This was evident when Thio, Hong and Yang supported a silly coup by another messiah, Thio the Shrew to take over AWARE. The aim is to further their bapok bashing games using a NGO. The answer is in politics. The Anglicans are up in arms because the devil has stirred up troubles by ordaining gay priests in the west. The asian chapter has chosen to side with conservatives by bashing bapoks to showcase their 'holier than thou' credentials, Hong and Yang stand to gain by rapid promotions and prominence, hence they decided to assist Thio the Shrew to declare war on bapoks in AWARE than pagans.
The missionaries while gaining a upper hand against Pagans must eventually face a must stronger foe in Buddhism, the later while clearly Mahayana in nature in Peasantpore, has stronger infrastructure and 'grassroots' that will counter the communist like cell group tactics used by the missionaries in Peasantpore. The missionaries used Leninist cell groups effectively to consolidate their new converts and put them through pseudo logical study sessions aka brainwashing to cement the new converts. The Buddhist sects have taken a leaf from the missionaries and moved in recent years to cater to the English speaking peasants. The old tactics of using hells to frighten the peasants in godly behavior has desists and more intellectual stimulating discourse are used (but given the low IQ of local peasants, that is sure to backfire). Despite the superficial modernization of buddhist lodges, they remained disconnected to the ground spiritually and many are often involved in petty politics over donations and high profile squabbles involving wax-works elders in various lodges have the missionaries gleefully continuing their assault using cell groups and peer pressure.
However the greatest enemy to the traditional missionaries come from within, as City Harvest has shown, the real idol is always the Golden Calf. Using the seductive tactics of MLM and salvation via donations, the new Turks have upset the order that the older generation of missionaries have built up over the years. Despite the stupid adventures of ex-priest Kang, the missionaries have maintained a prim, proper and fuss free approach to busy peasants who are only too happy to confess their wrongdoings on Sunday but repeat them throughout the week. Kong Hee and his greed will threaten to shatter the pristine image of the missionaries. This is laughable because while on the cusp of near victory over the pagans, Kong Hee has undone at least 10 years of effort that his missionary pals expended to discredit pagans. The pagans have now some breathing room while the missionaries are mired in a PR attempt to distance themselves from the Kong and his greedy bunch.
The next move taken by the traditional missionaries will be to keep a low profile and examine why Kong Hee quietly stole a large number of stupid lambs. Kong Hee, Rony and Mark belong to the new generation of vile vermin who mix business with religion, remember the old popes mixed statecraft with religion before the Europeans got rid of them. Using wealth as a yardstick, they sell salvation based on blessings accorded to their followers by their deity. This is little difference from the old dirty tactics of the traditional missionaries but the similarities ended when you realise Rony put his family in important posts within his Church, mirroring the Imperial Family practice of ennobling their kinsman within the state of Peasantpore! The traditional missionaries are misguided by their zeal to preach the one true fairy tale but Rony, Kong Hee and Mark belonged to the latter group who seeks profits while sullying the name of their beloved deity!
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