Five hundred years ago in 1455 Pope Romanus Pontifex claimed himself to be the representative of the Christian God, Jesus Christ and in doing so he claimed dominion over the entire world. He issued statements which gave European rulers the sanction to colonize all of the non-Christian world. He anointed the rulers and their representatives the plunderers and pirates as sanctified conquerors with legal and moral license to dispossess natives of their possessions. The Bulls gave Christian plunderers like Columbus, Cortez, Pizarro, Cook, Hudson and the rest both legal and moral license to plunder, dispossess, enslave and murder the natives. They were given ample faculty to to invade, search out, capture, vanquish and subdue all pagans. They were to convert all natives to Christianity and to kill those who could not be converted.
The arrogance and tyranny of the Vatican assumed the entire world was under the jurisdiction of the Pope, a God's representative on earth. Any land not Christianized or not under the sovereignty of a Christian ruler could be possessed on behalf of God. All time and space was considered empty until Christians arrived with God's truth and until then all lands and territories were considered Terra Nullius. Thus this set the precedent and the rules for all the aggressive and warmongering European powers to set out to conquer and terrorize all the non-Christian world. It was the catalyst for the 500 years curse of white Christian domination and terrorism of all non-Christian countries which continue non-stop to this day.
Under this self-assumed totalitarian godly power the Pope of the Catholics in the Vatican, the power house or headquarters of all the Catholics sent missionaries to China with intent to convert The Middle Kingdom to the Catholic Christian faith.
The Catholic priests sent to China during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty were known as Jesuits or Dominicans, two different orders of the same Catholic church. However, the Jesuits predominate in the Chinese court, the hall of power and rule in the Middle Kingdom.
Emperor Kangxi ascended the Dragon Throne at the age of seven and ruled China from 1661 to 1722. In the early decades of Emperor Kangxi's reign, the Jesuits played a large part in the imperial court. As the Jesuit priests had great knowledge of astronomy Emperor Kangxi made the Jesuits in-charge of the Imperial Observatory. Emperor Kangxi was introduced to western music. A Jesuit priest Thomas Pereira taught him how to play the harpsichord. Emperor Kangxi appointed Karel Slavicek as court musician. Emperor Kangxi was broadminded and was always opened to new ideas. He was later to found out that his broadmindedness was being made use of by the Pope and the Vatican to destroy Chinese culture or to deculturalize China and the Chinese people from Chinese culture in favour of Christian teachings and tenets.
The Vatican sent preachers or missionaries known as Jesuits or Dominicans to China to evangelize or propagate the Christian faith or Christianity. They always believe in starting to convert the ruler or king of the country first as once the king is converted the rest of his subjects and the whole country will easily follow suit.
Some of the early Jesuit missionaries sent to China in 1705 were Ferdinand Verbiest and Karel Slavicek. In 1711 the Pope through "The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples" sent Matteo Ripa to China to propagate the Christian religion. Matteo Ripa an Italian priest was also a painter and copper engraver at Qing Court. In Beijing Pope Clement X11opened a religious school, The Collegio Dei Cinesi" to help the propagation of Christianity in China.
In 1723 Matteo Ripa returned to Naples, Italy with four young Chinese converted Christians. They were to be groomed to become Christian priests before sending them back to China later as missionaries. At the same time the Vatican opened a school in Naples to teach Chinese to Italians. It was the first Chinese institute and the first school of Sinology in Europe.
Emperor Kangxi was grateful to the Jesuits for their contributions and the many languages they could interprete. He made use of the service of Jean Francoils Gerbillon and Thomas Pereira as translators for the negotiations of the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689 with Russia. Little did he know that the Jesuit priests were sabotaging China's interests and subbordinating China's interests to the Russians who were also Catholic christians. Thus China was to lose large chunks of territories to Russia under the treachery of these Jesuits who manipulated the Chinese Emperor Kangxi under subterfuge to accept the lobsided treaty in favour of the Christian Russians. The Jesuits did the same treason to China in subsequent treaties with Russia in later years in the 1830s to 1900s which resulted in China losing more than two or three million square miles of territories north of the Heilongjiang River and the Ussuri River to Russia.
The Jesuits intent to convert Emperor Kangxi to Christianity.
Emperor Kangxi was a very conservative and very highly cultured man steeped in the knowledge of Confucianism, Chinese culture and Chinese rites. But he was also fond of the Jesuits respectful and unobtrusive manner. The Jesuit priests could speak Chinese well and wore the silk robes of the elites, the mandarins.Thus under these pretensions the Jesuits were able to ingratiate with Emperor Kangxi and gained influence in the emperor's court.
The Chinese rites controversy and the attempted deculturalization of Emperor Kangxi by subterfuge.
Jesuits intent to convert Emperor Kangxi to Christianity.
In 1692, when Thomas Pereira requested tolerance for Christianity , Emperor Kangxi was willing to oblige and issued "The Edict of Toleration" which recognized Catholicism and barred attack on their churches and legalized their missions and the practice of Christianity by the Chinese people.
However, controversy soon arose over whether Chinese Christians could still be allowed to take part in traditional Confucian ceremonies and ancestor worship. The Jesuit priests were in favour of tolerance but the Dominican priests took a hardline stand against Chinese traditional rites. The Dominican position won the support of Pope Clement X1 who in 1705 sent Charles Thomas Maillard de Toiurnon as his representative to the Emperor Kangxi to communicate the ban on Chinese rites and worship.
Through Maillard de Tournon the Pope insisted on sending his own representative to Beijing to oversee Jesuit missionaries in China. This was not allowed by Emperor Kangxi as he treated this as an overstep to hijack the Emperor's power and authority and an infringement on China's sovereignty and dignity. Emperor Kangxi refused the Pope in the Vatican for his audacity to challenge the Emperor's authority to keep missionary activities in China under his own oversight and control.
However, in the Vatican, the Pope chose to defy Emperor Kangxi's order and authority. On 19th March,1715, Pope Clement X1 arrogantly and defiantly issued the Papal Bull Ex illa die which officially condemned Chinese rites and religious practice and forbade converted Chinese Christians to carry out the traditional practice. This was tantamount to killing Chinese culture , an attempt to deculturalize the Chinese from their traditional customs and cultural practices. Armed with the Pope's Papal Bull Ex illa die the Jesuit and Dominican priests went around destroying Chinese families worshipping tablets and deities causing untold choas, quarrels and trouble among Chinese families and society.
This Pope and Vatican arrogance was too much for Emperor Kangxi to tolerate. Under the dictates of the Pope's Papal Bull Ex illa die even Emperor Kangxi was not allowed to pray and pay respects to his ancestors base on Chinese traditional rites and customs. Emperor Kangxi was flagbbergasted and deep offended. Henceforth Emperor Kangxi officially forbade Christian missions in China, as they were causing too much trouble.
Southernglory1
Friday, 30th October, 2020.
Do you think Samy Vellu Loong Kangxi is receiving any orders from India's Prime Minister Modi about CECA??
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ReplyDeleteWell said Southernglory1 - I gave up on god years ago. I was educated in a mission school. Go further if god really exist, I refuse to go to heaven
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JC
Virgo if u go to the school e crpt Muslim it's compulsory to attend else they ask u not to go to this school. So u do have a choice. My son went there he said it's compulsory except that he just switch off when in that class. The most they push the more he switched off as at the jc age they can think for themselves. May be primary and secondary they can change u
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ReplyDeleteOne of the commands of the Bible, "Thou shalt not kill". It is a very important tenet. . But the white people who concocted Christianity has been killing millions of people in the non-christian countries. Well, they justified the killings as empowered by their God, Jesus Christ. It is and has always been an abuse of God's name and Jesus name to justify their murders, killings and assasinations to take other people's land and possessions by force. It is time for the real God to settle account with the wicked white people in Europe, America, Australia and wherever they may be. Maybe God is sending his messenger the Coronavirus or COVID-19 to to the job now.
Tan Keng Seng
Escuse Mr Tang do you really believe the god damn shit? Dr M was correct for his remarks abouthe beheased in Nice France. I may not be 100% agreement in the past. But this time he got my support. Please read COMPLETE his comments. Kind Regards JC
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ReplyDeleteIt's a pity Emperor Kangxi died too early.He was a very cultured man and yet well equipped with a militant spirit. Under his reign the Russians made several attempts to steal Chinese territories. The Russians would build forts to secure the lands and towns they grabbed in remote Siberia. But most of the times Emperor Kangxi would send armies to destroy their forts and drove them away. But with the passing away of Emperor Kangxi in 1722, subsequent Qing emperors were not so spartan in resisting Russian encroachment.
Anti western barbarism
The name Tan Keng Seng is very familiar.
ReplyDeleteHi JC, I think you misread Tan Keng Seng.
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ReplyDeleteThe Qing Dynasty became so weak that practically every western Christian power and Japan took advantage to encroach on Chinese territories. The British and France led the way to bully and attack China. It culminated with the Opium Wars 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 in which China was greatly devastated with over 30 million Chinese dead.
Also in 1885 France took advantage of a weak China to attack southern China which began the Arrow War and in which China was forced to surrender Indo-China to France
Chinese should seek revenge to recover their honour and past glory
ReplyDeleteDuring the Opium War period hundreds of millions of Chinese people's lives were devastated by the Christian British and other Christian European and American powers. Then there arose great patriotism among many Chinese citizenry who felt the need to to do something to stop the western Christian barbarism. Thus revolutionaries arose under the banner of the Taiping Rebellion. The Taiping Rebellion was led by a lunatic converted Chinese Christian, Hung Hsiu-chuan. At first the Taiping rebellion had some success. But Hung Hsiu-chuan was too drunk with Christian ideology and he began to destroy Chinese temples and Chinese deities everywhere his armies went. This cause great dissension among the revolutionaries and caused the rot within.
Also the British and other western Christian powers realized that the Taipings were not that accommodating to the western powers and so they began to help the Qing armies to put down the rebellion.
The western interference in the Taiping Rebellion caused the death of over 50 million Chinese dead besides the vast destruction of properties.
At the end of the Taiping Rebellion the Western christian powers especially the British and France became more strongly entrenched in all Chinese towns, cities and ports and their occupation reduced China to a semi colonial status.
This was the most shameful and humiliating period that China and the Chinese people need to redeem it to regain Chinese honour, pride and dignity.
A proud Chinese descendant.
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