they think the Co-Prosperity Sphere was Japan’s attempt to stop Trans Satanic cults from spreading across the Pacific, and OOP loves Imperial Japan.

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      They were extremely Catholic, which is how they got so much support from foreigners in Western organizations and governments.

      Absent that, yeah, the KMT would have been paste very early on. But they were inundated with guns and money for much of the 1930s and 40s

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            Sun Yat-sen’s Christianity has been a subject of some controversy; it has been argued that Sun was not really a Christian but portrayed himself as such for political reasons.

            If he had said that in Chinese to a Chinese audience then he would’ve been hanged and China would be run by Yuan Shikai III or something right now.

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              China has a Christian population of around 23M even now. Taiwan has another million. And missionaries had been plying their trade, particularly in the coastal cities, for centuries prior. Famously so, as Christian theology sparked the Tiaping Rebellion of the 1850s. You’re not going to get hanged for this in China. But then this is in a country where one could viably call oneself a Confucian and a Christian without significant cognitive dissonance.

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                1.6% of the population

                I was regretably one of them. Christianity was rightfully despised as a tool of control for colonial drug cartels. Sun Yat Sen’s own brother was disgusted by him being baptized. Being sort of but not really religious has always been common in China. Openly claiming that he wanted to Christianize China would trigger revulsion from the vast majority of the population even in the modern day, let alone the 1900s.

                call oneself a Confucian and a Christian

                Confucianism is not a religion.

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                    How much opium did you peddle as a Chinese Christian?

                    Fuck off debate pervert. I’m not interested in whatever half assed attempt at a comeback this is.

                    When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu

                    Christianity’s main purpose being the justification of western colonial control isn’t exactly some obscure lore.