This is an adjunct article to " Why Christianity failed in China and India?" 16-10-2024
To further the understanding why Christianity failed in China I see the need to republish the article on how Emperor Kangxi saved China from the hypocrisy and scourge of the European Christian faith which was published on Friday, 30th October, 2020. How Emperor Kangxi saved China from the hypocrisy and scourge of the European Christian faith.
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 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 X11 opened 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 interpret. 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 subordinating 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 lob sided 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 XI 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 flabbergasted and deeply offended. Henceforth Emperor Kangxi officially forbade Christian missions in China, as they were causing too much trouble.
Southernglory1 Friday, 30th October, 2020. Thursday, 17th October, 2024
11 comments:
Too bad the Native American Indians and Australian aborigines had no leader able to stop the wholesale Anglo-Saxon scourge from taking over their land using religious brainwashing. They do not understand having their culture and heritage being alienated in favor of adopting a book in exchange for their land.
Yes, China should be thankful to Emperor Kangxi centuries earlier, just like in later years, be thankful to Mao Tze Tung for getting rid of the Anglo-Saxon evil eight nations and saving China. But as the West continues to harbor evil intents to subdue China, all Chinese must stand behind Xi Jinping in his endeavor to keep China secure and safe.
We agree with you totally on your good relevant comment. Hopefully more netizens will follow your example and give their good comments after reading each article analytically in 'My Singapore News' .
Ref: Anonymous 11:17am
Yes, the wicked European Christian warmongering powers always use their evil religious conversion couple with deculturalisation to make easier inroads to colonize other non-Christian countries. Once you are converted to their Christian faith they demand you to give up your traditional beliefs and native culture. In other words they subject you to their brain washing. You are then under their intellectual control and have no say in matters vis-a-vis your country's interests and their country's interests. In short you are not suppose to think and see with your eyes but only to swallow and believe in their lies.
Thus from 1689 to 1890s China lost millions of square miles of lands to Christian Catholic Russia when treacherous Cathodic Jesuit priests who had the trust of the Ching Dynasty emperors betrayed China by persuading and inducing China to sign the lobsided treaties in favour of Christian Russia. The Chinese emperors did not realize that all the time the Jesuit priests were sabotaging China's interests and subordinating China's interests to the Russians who were also Catholic christians.
By their treacheries not only against China but also against the natives of North and South America, Africa and Asia the faceless and shameless white European and Anglo-Saxon powers not only make a mockery of their Christian religion but also by their deception and subterfuge practices cause all non-white and non-Christian countries to lose their lands and countries.
Thus the bellicose and demonic Western so-called Christian countries realise it is so much easier to conquer all non-Christian countries in Africa, Asia and the South and Central America countries by using their evil religious conversion couple with deculturalisation.
It's high time that all countries of the South put to an end the evil religious malpractices of the white people of their lethal toxic Christianity.
Chong Kuo Shen : Taipeh , Taiwan SG
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And for those who would use their heads to think about what the religion is preaching, the Bible said that on Judgement Day, Jesus would return to judge and only those found worthy would go to heaven. So, before Judgement Day, no believers can go to heaven. Anyone telling you that the dead believers have gone to heaven is lying, contradicting what Jesus and the Bible said. There is no Christian in heaven as of today. They are still waiting for Jesus to return to judge them on Judgement Day.
The Christian or Catholic priests are not supposed to lie when preaching their religion and their God. The Jesuits lied to the Chinese believers that Jesus and Mary were Chinese. And they claimed that these lies were ok, just to convert the Chinese.
And they are lying to the believers that they could go to heaven once they died, without waiting for Judgement Day. Or they are saying the Bible and Jesus lied.
The Catholic Popes of bygone days always claim they were the representatives of God and so always play the role of God in dealing with world affairs. That was what Pope Romanus in 1455 did when he proclaimed his Godly power to empower his Christian killers and murderers and genocociders to go round the world rampaging, plundering and slaughtering and invading all other non-white and non-Christian counttries all in the name of his naked outrageous so-called Christian God. The white people and white Christian countries have never stopped practising Pope Romanus evil and wicked practices. They are still playing God and deciding who to kill, assassinate and slaughter and which country or countries to attack , destroy and invade. They can carry out all their most wanton and brutal atrocities against non-Christian believers and non-Christian countries and all will be alright with no sin or criminality as they are all carried out in the name of their Christian God. Just look at how Anglo-Saxon United States and its Christian European allied powers attacked and devastated Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine and many other countries in Africa and South America. So all their sins and crimes against humanity will be forgiven and they will go to heaven because of their faith and believe in their Christian God, Jesus. What a hollow claim, utter hogwash rubbish. Even if their blind God will forgive them of their crimes we the people and countries of the South will ensure they face Karma or retribution and that they will be ultimately destroyed and sent into oblivion in Hell.
Sommatat Somchai : Bangkok - Thailand.
Now you know why religion has been called the opium of the masses.
And more have been killed in the name of religion than any other cause for humans. So think clearly about religion.
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The Western European Christian countries and the white Anglo-Saxon Americans are all consummated thieves, robbers, plunderers, killers and murderers. They rob, kill and steal and then point their dirty fingers at others. Let them be cursed unto hell.
The Africans complained that when the white Christians came they the natives have the land and the white men have the bible. Then the white men gave them the bible and told them to close their eyes and pray to God. But when they opened their eyes after praying they found the white people have their land and they the natives have the bible.
Similar complains were lodged by all the natives in the world in the Americas, Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand.
The White countries especially the Anglo-Saxons US and UK have poliiticised their Christianity dogma with all manner of brutality and carnage as continual permanent warfare of their naked God against all others of the countries of the South. They evily assumed that in the name of their God they have the power and the right to impose their outrageous beliefs, dirty culture and demonic laws over others.
But Karma is real and they will soon face it and be vanquished from this earthly world.
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