Great is the timing. Hot on the heels of my posting about Angels and Demons, events unfolded in a land of palpable impact by a segment of the Chinese Diaspora that emitted a pattern of a parable resembling a crucial segment of Jesus' life. This provided me an opportunity, no, not really, but, a toe-hold break to compose an opus of close to ecclesiastical proportion in a short space of time, by my standards anyway.
No, not really. Just a vain and shallow attempt to piece together local news that I do not bother with most of the time and connect them, wherever and whenever they seem to fit even awkwardly, to startling revelations in the Sciptures and Wasp Theology of which I am an inchoate follower. Think thus of the possibilities of things that can go wrong with this topic I am attempting. Will it finally provoke some comments? Come on fellas.
What is not important is how accurate or well researched this story is, but, in making the attempt to write it, I, as promised, am revealing the nature of an authentic Chinese as adulterated by ubiquitous Wasp influence. What is important here therefore is about me being true to the Mission and Objective of this Blog, to bare all as a Chinese.
Vanity and shallowness run in my blood. I know at this juncture a lot of Chinese will want to disown me and deny that they share my blood or my roots. Humbleness is not our strong suit. I just thought that since I am talking about Jesus who is Humbleness, the point is relevant here (so, calm down fellows, don't bring out the choppers).
Just because I managed to string the words "Angels", "Demons" and "Jesus" together, I am laying claims to an epic of ecclesiastical proportion that will unfold here. You know that is not going to happen, I am merely being Chinese. Why am I telling you this? Because I am tired of Western journalists that go into deep and remote parts of China and interview some old fuddy duddy Chinese character with an axe to grind and embellished memories as fed and rewarded by the slanted agenda of the journalist and presented back in their powerful news media at home as the gospel truth.
This Chinese who is probably more vain, shallow and capable of outrageous claims is trusted and relied upon to tell the Western journalist the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
This Chinese who is probably more vain, shallow and capable of outrageous claims is trusted and relied upon to tell the Western journalist the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Sorry, I got carried away, but, this would be helpful background to stories I would like to tell later on, on this Blog. Back to our titled story.
The history of China must be peppered with characters who could be considered to have some aspects of their lives that manifested similarity in pattern but not in intensity to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. These stories can be picked out from various journals and publications.
The latest Chinese Jesus can be found on the land that fervently advertises itself as "truly Asia" to attract tourists. What exactly that means I am not sure. China, India, Japan and other Asian countries are somehow by the implication of this advertisement not truly Asia, but only this land is.
This land used to speak the King's or Queen's English as the case may be depending on which gender sits on the throne of England at the time, but after undergoing moronic social engineering trysts, makes an international fool of itself with a worldwide advert that claims only itself as truly Asia. I guess the other countries in Asia are truly European, truly African, truly American or truly Australian or truly whatever.
We are then an Asia of One country only? This "One" thing is an "in" thing in this land to cover up for the fact that we have so many sets of "double-standards". The moronic social engineering has made us or is meant to make us lose our bearings and perhaps our marbles as well.
Any land given to social engineering will soon produce injustice, what more, moronic social engineering. You get the picture? This land is so riped with injustices that it is really fertile for a saviour or more to come along.
From the most unexpected quarters, Jesus who was heralded to come as the King of the Jews came from the most humble of beginnings, born on a manger and grew up the hard life of a carpenter's son. The latest Chinese Jesus also came from the most unexpected source, but, in a paradoxically opposite direction - a powerful, rich and corruption-tainted political party.
This Chinese Jesus, like Jesus, broke with tradition and tried to take on the Chinese Pharisees and Chinese Sanhedrins in this land and shared very much the same fate as Jesus did but in a political sense. This Chinese Jesus who boldly spoke up and pursued vigorously what was good for the country and people was politically maligned, humilated and is now close to political death.
His crime is that he spoke, even when he was speaking the truth that is good for the country and the common folks. As a Chinese, he forgot to be inscrutable and paid the ultimate price.
Amen.
The history of China must be peppered with characters who could be considered to have some aspects of their lives that manifested similarity in pattern but not in intensity to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. These stories can be picked out from various journals and publications.
The latest Chinese Jesus can be found on the land that fervently advertises itself as "truly Asia" to attract tourists. What exactly that means I am not sure. China, India, Japan and other Asian countries are somehow by the implication of this advertisement not truly Asia, but only this land is.
This land used to speak the King's or Queen's English as the case may be depending on which gender sits on the throne of England at the time, but after undergoing moronic social engineering trysts, makes an international fool of itself with a worldwide advert that claims only itself as truly Asia. I guess the other countries in Asia are truly European, truly African, truly American or truly Australian or truly whatever.
We are then an Asia of One country only? This "One" thing is an "in" thing in this land to cover up for the fact that we have so many sets of "double-standards". The moronic social engineering has made us or is meant to make us lose our bearings and perhaps our marbles as well.
Any land given to social engineering will soon produce injustice, what more, moronic social engineering. You get the picture? This land is so riped with injustices that it is really fertile for a saviour or more to come along.
From the most unexpected quarters, Jesus who was heralded to come as the King of the Jews came from the most humble of beginnings, born on a manger and grew up the hard life of a carpenter's son. The latest Chinese Jesus also came from the most unexpected source, but, in a paradoxically opposite direction - a powerful, rich and corruption-tainted political party.
This Chinese Jesus, like Jesus, broke with tradition and tried to take on the Chinese Pharisees and Chinese Sanhedrins in this land and shared very much the same fate as Jesus did but in a political sense. This Chinese Jesus who boldly spoke up and pursued vigorously what was good for the country and people was politically maligned, humilated and is now close to political death.
His crime is that he spoke, even when he was speaking the truth that is good for the country and the common folks. As a Chinese, he forgot to be inscrutable and paid the ultimate price.
Amen.
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