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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Japan wasn't a Christian nation in the 1930s. It was majority Shintoist and Buddhist with only a tiny Christian minority largely relegated to the lower classes. Why would they care about Satanic Cults? Its nonsense.
The Chinese-based KMT would be the more likely candidate if you were going to make up some bullshit about a glorious Christianist crusade.
If the KMT was Catholic then the Communists would've won before the Japanese invasion even happened lmao.
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
I think you're getting them confused with South Vietnam. The only leading figure who was unquestionably Christian was Chiang Kai Shek's wife. On the other hand you have the Muslim Ma Clique, who towards the end was the last KMT holdout.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang_Islamic_insurgency
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781403919755_9
~ Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of the Koumintang, during a speaking event in San Francisco in 1911
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.
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.
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.
Confucianism is not a religion.
Fuck off debate pervert. I'm not interested in whatever half assed attempt at a comeback this is.
Christianity's main purpose being the justification of western colonial control isn't exactly some obscure lore.
My guy, you want to come in here and pretend Christianity = Drug Dealer, then get offended when I ask the price of a dime bag?
Who is the debate bro?
Again, go back and revisit the Taiping Rebellion.
Christianity's main purpose is to coup with mortality.
What are the Opium wars? Christianity in that era was spread directly as a consequence of concessions from the Opium wars. The goal of Christian missionaries, as is all other places, is to pacify the local population, surpress local culture and justify continued colonial occupation, and in extreme cases slavery and extermination. In the lead up to the Boxer Rebellion Christian missionaries were granted extralegality and went so far as to go on serial rapes unpunished, and that's just the stuff natopedia admits to. This same religion continues to commit systemic abuse of children with its priests. This is the legacy of Christianity throughout the world and your half-assed attempts at comebacks won't change anything.
Go back and revisit the Boxer Rebellion.
Geez, I wonder why any version of Christianity that doesn't prostrate itself to the west (Taiping, Unification Church) is immediately labeled a cult and rejected from Christianity. Not Mormons though, Joseph Smith worshipers get to be Christian because Smith is white.