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When it comes down to it, the CCP and government could only specifically object to the canonization of two of these "saints", Albericus Crescitelli and Auguste Chapdelaine, out of a total of 120 when the Vatican ritual took place in 2000. It's actually not clear to me whether Chapdelaine...

Yeah you go knock some sense into that noggin! I know you'd come in handy - just the kind of baby-sitter frozen boy needs to stay on track. You go sista ... :azn:

"Surpassing intolerance"? Did I miss your speech on Martin Luther King day? Ah, More diversions from your own ignorance ... What happened to physics and lawyer and "quantization"? Stick to what you know (certainly ain't history), and let's hear more about "holy wine' and "scums" ... :smitten:

:what:??!! You know anything about how I performed in "quantitative sciences" back in the days? That's right. Talk wildly about English, physics, engineers, lawyers ... anything but to own up to the plain fact that you know next to nothing about either the history of Islam or Christianity...

Now the less egregious: As much as I regret it, I must say that there is validity to such perceptions regarding the current practice of evangelism. As a Christian personally, I make no apologies - none whatsoever, for proselytizing. People are free to spread what they consider to be...

Just doing my Saturday PDF drive by (yes, time is such a premium these days ...) But this occasion calls for the emptying of a clip or two from my own rusty AK: In no particular order: This statement will be less spiritually "criminal" had the "West" been more of a paragon of Christian...

To me this is the single most salient bit. Of course, as in anything, the devil is in the details and in implementation. Thanks for the informative bit. It's America's currency, and everybody else's fight.

Your point is well taken. But then people will say when "上梁不正" ... Just as I was going to say, you said it already.

^^^ As far as I can judge, that's entirely plausible.

If true then Siegecrossbow is entirely prescient (on another thread). The CCP propaganda machine would then seem to be plunging headlong into Forest Gump mode already (I am sorry to insult Mr. Gump).

As much as I regret the forfeiture of all "nuances" in harping on his (alleged) statements on "colonization" of HK or elsewhere, I agree that such statements (if he indeed made them) will now serve as the most salient charge the CCP propaganda machine can "make hay" against him. Just as they...

The winner is Mr. Liu. I confess that I feel for his life and journey more so than I could "sympathize" with his collection of mild platitudes (零八宪章). No one is saying these "platitudes" are not relevant to China. However, back then 刘少奇 (Liu...

First of all I dispute the above as pointing out nuances is not tantamount to outright advocacy. Secondly, even if we were to split hair the way you like it, history records that the people of HK did not rebel against the Brits the way Chinese in general did against the Japanese. The same way...

Time dude to take your head out of the freezer. I am usually accused to be the one to derail threads. But do please have another look at what you wrote. Did Challenger or whoever even get anywhere near this thread? I wasn't around when s/he (allegedly) made whatever outlandish statements...

:what: The music sounds better and more authentic when you sing it like this: "down with the running dogs of ..." I guess the Cultural Revolution is not really over for you after all - despite you eagerness to build a "red guard" strawman at every turn ... tsk, tsk, tsk. I hate to...

I get it. China caused Kashmir to flair up ... China "fathered" Pakistan's nuclear-weapons program. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Pakistan's leaders from decades back had nothing to do with it. The Chinese did it in 1972 during the height and in the thick of the Cultural Revolution ...

That one gets so old that I don't think you believe it yourself. Rhetorics are always hot and I regularly read JPost, JWR and the likes because I want to know what the Carolines of the "holy land" talk about so I am prepared for at least the mild version of the "hot sauce". But I also...

In all honesty, HK's relative prosperity can, to a certain degree (exact threshold debatable of course), be attributable to the relative effectiveness and "cleanliness" of British rule. Like all "colonialists" in the past, the Brits could be both "enlightening" and oppressive. Going back in...

Your sentiment has at the most "superficial" validity IMO. At its core, there is more emotion than truth. The reason Iran has not been attacked is not , IMO, because of China's overt or covert backing. Russians have been playing little games all over the map in recent years for all to...

Indeed Singh on this point. India seems to me wants not only Kashmir, but also the people in Kashmir. That's why I personally (strictly as an outsider), wish to see some form of joint administration of Kashmir as the starting point ... This is in contrast with others, who want the...