Interesting. I thought I had read recent government persecution of Christian churches in China.

Three Self Patriotic Movement for Protestants, and Chinese Patriotic Catholic Church for us

The problem is that the government doesn't see any difference in church and nonchurch

It doesn't get a special respect or status

Ah

Officially to join the party you must be atheist. And party membership is required for any higher government position or "elected" office

Interesting that their society accepts God as real, but also accepts that their rulers renounce God.

To non-believers there, or even just people who don't practice Christianity, being Christian is something of a novelty to them. When I met my wife's family and she told them I'm Catholic, they automatically assumed I must be a good guy

Because in their view, every Christian follows Christian principles. Don't lie or steal etc

Oh

Interesting.

Their lack of church worship comes from antiquity. The early Chinese followed the exact same religion as pre-Mosaic Hebrews. This is accepted as simple historical fact to them

And of course Abraham didn't go to church

So the act of Sunday worship and going to church never became important to them, since they lacked a Bible and basically just learned about God by oral tradition

"God is in heaven and can see what you do, so be good, don't make him mad or your life is gonna suck" is pretty much their whole religion for centuries

Really? That’s neat.

They often call it "heaven worship" and for them there's a very blurry distinction between God and Heaven

So would they have gotten their “Hebrew” traditions from like the Tower of Babel split?

In fact their word for God is just "Lord of heaven"

Yeah basically

I suppose the first of them may have realized "this tower was a bad idea, I should probably go worship God now and not be an idiot"

Yeah lol

As far as secular knowledge goes, is there an explanation for that?

I know from human migration patterns, everyone migrated from around Turkey and moved to everywhere in the eastern hemisphere.

One branch to Europe, one to Africa, and one to the Far East.

They even performed the same sacrifice as the ancient Hebrews until 1911

Wow. So sacrificing sheep and stuff?

Yep

It's called the border sacrifice

It's done at a huge temple in Beijing. Which is not at the border

So what could it be referring to? The border between heaven and earth maybe

上帝

Shang di

Sounds pretty close to El shaddai

God chose the Jews instead, I think not because they were better, but because they were worse. They needed more help

Notice how in the Bible they are always screwing up and descending into polytheism

That is neat.

Well yeah lol

Just when you think they got their act together, they do it again

Goober bunch of Jews lol

But they still were the like the only ones that seemed to really follow the directions anyways.