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"It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be."
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"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
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"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."
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"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation."
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"Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years."
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"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."
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"Christianity is part of the common law."
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"And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools."
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"What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty."
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"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."
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"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."
Friendship
"Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists."
Thought
"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."
Cultural
"It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be."
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"But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious."
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"It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood."
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"The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture."
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