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Missionaries in China.
China's policy on religion is that the government only recognizes the main religions such as Catholicism, Taoism, Buddhism and even Islam. What they don't recognize are those so many new made up American Christian religions. So in other words Mormons are not allowed to come and knock on everybody's door. You can't claim to be a stigmata and declare healing powers or even sell miraculous bottled tap water.
In the past when missionaries came to convert the heathens into civilized Christians they stayed and built towns. Today missionaries seem to be like pyramid sales people, how many converts can they get and they will rise up the ranks. They go and seek people, ask them to convert and if they do then leave thinking there is a little throne besides God's when they die. With so many different types of American Christians it is hard to know which one is the true religion in God's eye.
What they are doing is using ESL as a means to stay in China and convert students. They will offer to work for a really low salary that most of us would never accept but they will have an income from their church. They would even set up a training centre and offer a ridiculously low fee. Pushing your beliefs onto students is not what we're here to do. Getting students to think for themselves and choose their own beliefs is more acceptable by the government. Most contracts usually state you are not allowed to preach any sort of religion but it is okay to discuss issues such as conflicts caused by religion.
There are lots of Christians who see a billion people living in a Godless country as a juicy opportunity, just as a company sees China as a billion untapped customers and they think that here is where they'll can sky rocket their conversion numbers. I have met a lot of Chinese Christians, I stumbled upon a bible study once who pray in English. There are catholic churches with Chinese nuns, mosques and temples everywhere. So it is not a Godless country unless if you believe that your wacky new religion is true in the eyes of God. Many times in Australia I have been propositioned by these people and even telling them that my family are catholics they told me Jesus is not in my heart and I need to be saved. So even belonging to one Christian religion it is not good enough to be saved because it is not the exact religion. It is a matter of opinion what God wants from you but to claim that you know exactly what he wants is blind fanaticism.
There are two things that will destroy civilization which are politics and religion. If people continue to think that there is only one true religion and the rest are heathens then there will be more suicide bombings and plane hijackings. Indifference is the key to peace, most people believe there is something good out there but when you start thinking that you know exactly what God wants or even hates then we've got problems.