Comments on: Criticizing the Christians. http://mf.rox.com/archives/2007/04/05/criticizing-the-christians/ On the day that I go to a Chinese hospital and the doctor examining me isn't smoking a cigarette, I'll know globalization has gone too far. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:51:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: MF http://mf.rox.com/archives/2007/04/05/criticizing-the-christians/comment-page-1/#comment-47934 MF Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:06:25 +0000 http://mf.rox.com/archives/2007/04/05/criticizing-the-christians/#comment-47934 Just as an update, I spoke to a woman in the international students' office about this, and she did confirm that foreigners, includings students, are forbidden to preach. I told her what happened. I'm not sure what's going to happen next. They might send someone to the English corner to have a look, or they might have someone come around to the foreign students' classrooms to give them a reminder. Just as an update, I spoke to a woman in the international students’ office about this, and she did confirm that foreigners, includings students, are forbidden to preach. I told her what happened. I’m not sure what’s going to happen next. They might send someone to the English corner to have a look, or they might have someone come around to the foreign students’ classrooms to give them a reminder.

]]> By: MF http://mf.rox.com/archives/2007/04/05/criticizing-the-christians/comment-page-1/#comment-47556 MF Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:00:36 +0000 http://mf.rox.com/archives/2007/04/05/criticizing-the-christians/#comment-47556 As I understand it, only foreigners are forbidden to proselytize. I think it's a reaction against Western imperialism -- missionaries were seen as part and parcel of it. Does the government here care so much if, for instance, Koreans try to convert people? I wonder. As I understand it, only foreigners are forbidden to proselytize. I think it’s a reaction against Western imperialism — missionaries were seen as part and parcel of it. Does the government here care so much if, for instance, Koreans try to convert people? I wonder.

]]> By: Dane http://mf.rox.com/archives/2007/04/05/criticizing-the-christians/comment-page-1/#comment-47519 Dane Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:01:13 +0000 http://mf.rox.com/archives/2007/04/05/criticizing-the-christians/#comment-47519 i NEVER met a missionary(I mean foreign ones) personally. But where I live there're quite a few chinese old ladies who seem to be keen about the christianity and they are rightfully suspected of engaging in some secret proselytizations.my mom told me that one day an old woman accosted her while murmuring someting and then handed her a flyer with christianity doctrines on it,apparently trying to convert her,who is a pious buddhist.She all but fled,citing belief conflict. I wonder if those old ladies had broken the law?And who asked them to do the proselytizing thing? Are there any quotas for each of them? i NEVER met a missionary(I mean foreign ones) personally. But where I live there’re quite a few chinese old ladies who seem to be keen about the christianity and they are rightfully suspected of engaging in some secret proselytizations.my mom told me that one day an old woman accosted her while murmuring someting and then handed her a flyer with christianity doctrines on it,apparently trying to convert her,who is a pious buddhist.She all but fled,citing belief conflict.
I wonder if those old ladies had broken the law?And who asked them to do the proselytizing thing? Are there any quotas for each of them?

]]> By: Kelly http://mf.rox.com/archives/2007/04/05/criticizing-the-christians/comment-page-1/#comment-47464 Kelly Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:56:27 +0000 http://mf.rox.com/archives/2007/04/05/criticizing-the-christians/#comment-47464 I have some vivid memories of seeing some 'missionaries' at work in Albania and Bulgaria several years ago. There is something disturbing about seeing these outsiders come in and try to change the locals when you have the sense that the ones trying to do the changing don't have any appreciation or understanding for the local people's culture or personal histories. One restaurant scene in Bulgaria really haunts me. A young strapping Bulgarian man was the dinner guest of two southern American proselytizer-wannabes. The young man was trying to explain that his father wouldn't approve of the son making a change in religion, and was trying to provide some background on his family and its views about such things, including the fact that dad was, apparently, not the nicest guy around. The Americans seemed to hardly process what they were being told, and to simple tell the young man that they wanted to meet with the father, too. I thought to myself that I wouldn't want to witness <i>that</i> meeting. I have some vivid memories of seeing some ‘missionaries’ at work in Albania and Bulgaria several years ago. There is something disturbing about seeing these outsiders come in and try to change the locals when you have the sense that the ones trying to do the changing don’t have any appreciation or understanding for the local people’s culture or personal histories.

One restaurant scene in Bulgaria really haunts me. A young strapping Bulgarian man was the dinner guest of two southern American proselytizer-wannabes. The young man was trying to explain that his father wouldn’t approve of the son making a change in religion, and was trying to provide some background on his family and its views about such things, including the fact that dad was, apparently, not the nicest guy around. The Americans seemed to hardly process what they were being told, and to simple tell the young man that they wanted to meet with the father, too. I thought to myself that I wouldn’t want to witness that meeting.

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