At the beginning of the 21st century, Europe is being Islamized,
while China is being Christianized. This proves that if God exists
He must have a sense of humor. Buddhism and Taoism still claim most
worshippers in China but the state-sanctioned churches count up to
35 million followers. The underground churches are estimated to
have 80 million members or more, about 12 million of them
Catholics, the rest Protestants.
In a Beijing beauty salon, convert Xun Jinzhen explains why
Christianity has become so popular: We have very few people who
believe in communism as a faith, so theres an emptiness in their
hearts. Among the Chinese converts are some figures from the 1989
democracy protests. According to Han Dong-fang, I think human
beings need something at a spiritual level. We dont want to
believe we are coming from nowhere; going nowhere. In China we have
traditionally followed Buddhism. We had quite a deep religion. But
communism destroyed everything. When communism became this
corrupted thing which failed everybody, people still needed a
belief. I think thats the reason for Christianity in China.
