@stellachenyl@DavePrichard A couple different things I could say about that but the best answer is straightforward: China was never a Christian nation. We Americans said “This is who we are” and then suddenly we said “No, we’re not.” Christian or not, a massive identify shift will cause chaotic disruption.
@TexasEd911@edudissenter My own term, created after 10 years in the field. Most of the teachers i have worked with are cool, normal thinkers, but followers. The people at the top make exciting promises and proclamations and the swarm conforms to the new rules of the power structure.
@whosagainstus@AsceticDreams People keep asking what happened to the West. It abandoned Christianity. France was a backwater before Christianity, considered barbarians by the Byzantines.
@realpeteyb123 Unless the original end goal is what we are seeing now. Then the policies were extremely successful because the goal was to destroy their civilizations and install a serfdom.