The irony of that title to the NY Times article... Is there something wrong when they make Jesus Christ out to a blond European man? If Jesus Christ were alive today he would most likely be labeled a communist by many in the right. So does Christianity influence politics or do politics influence Christianity. Remember how they say Beijing denies Christians in China from declaring loyalty to the Pope. Remember how people like Sarah Palin criticizes the present Pope and his policies as if she knows better than the Pope? Does that mean Chinese Christians must declare their allegiance to Sarah Palin since she seems to think she has authority above the Pope? See how they get to question and ignore the Pope any time they wish but not any Chinese even if they're not Christian.
And the West gets to interpret what Buddhism is? Maybe Myanmar's Nazi-like Buddhism has it correct since the West doesn't criticize it. Just because Buddhists in China don't hate everything Chinese like the West does, there must be something wrong with them. Do we get to declare Christianity a failure since Americans are devoid of values, materialistic, and petty? Just listen to Christian evangelists when China is no where in the discussion. So they get to dictate to the Chinese when they haven't figured it out themselves?
