People in the developing world (China included) is embracing christianity at the moment because the Christendom is a wealthy "religion" at the moment so everyone wants to be a part of this pop trend; they believe in this religion solely for materialistic gain especially in many poor parts of the world where missionaries are able to offer them some sort of food, money, medicine. Also, if you look around the world, most of the rich and wealthy countries (G7) tend to be Christians so people unconsciously believe that this is the "right" religion.
I remember reading from history when the Catholic priests came to Vietnam to convert the Vietnamese into Catholicsm starting in the 16th century, they all described those Vietnamese converts as lowly educated and super poor, hardly any rich and educated Vietnamese ever adopted this religion.
People in the developing world (China included) is embracing christianity at the moment because the Christendom is a wealthy "religion" at the moment so everyone wants to be a part of this pop trend; they believe in this religion solely for materialistic gain especially in many poor parts of the world where missionaries are able to offer them some sort of food, money, medicine. Also, if you look around the world, most of the rich and wealthy countries (G7) tend to be Christians so people unconsciously believe that this is the "right" religion.
I remember reading from history when the Catholic priests came to Vietnam to convert the Vietnamese into Catholicsm starting in the 16th century, they all described those Vietnamese converts as lowly educated and super poor, hardly any rich and educated Vietnamese ever adopted this religion.
Paris by night is like a comedy for any sensible Vietnamese to laugh at them. Anytime I see them parade a private-first class near high-school dropout in the U.S military on stage and treat him like a super hero it just boggle my mind.F*ck the French! Why does our people to wait for whatever the Westerners approval to feel pride and confidence about ourselves? We need to get off the nail salon, Casinos, and "Paris by Night" videos and productions to improve ourselves. I mean just look at the Japanese, Indians, and Chinese and see how they are successful without "God".
Going back in history... Buddhism was meant to reform Hinduism which had become dogmatic and the caste system had hardened.
Under Emperor Ashoka it succeeded to an extent, atheistic concepts were injected back into Hindusim and the caste system was diluted, however the reform stopped because of the invasions from central asia which destroyed many Buddhist universities
There is however an interesting twist. Dr Br. Ambedkar, called the 'Father of our constitution' was a Dalit but later converted to Theravada Buddhism. He abolished untouchability, outlawed the caste system and introduced positive discrimination
So in a way Buddhism did reform Indian society
