"A booming Bible industry is turning the world’s biggest atheist nation into the world’s largest supplier of the Good Book."
I think it has more to do with china’s embrace of job producing free enterprise & money making capitalism than “gettin’ religion”.
“We are printers,” said Li Chunnong, the general manager of the Nanjing Amity Printing Co. plant, which has about 500 employees. “As long as somebody legitimate sends us an order, we will print them.”
“We have the same structure as a Motorola or a Philips,” said Dean, a New Zealander who has worked with the company in China since 1991. “They make cellphones and TV tubes, and we’re producing Bibles.”
Or, maybe not:
An estimated 30 million Christians now worship in government-approved churches that fall under the control of religious “patriotic associations.” Tens of millions more are said to pray in underground outlets.
The renewed demand for religion was met with a shortage of teaching material.
Today, more than three-quarters of Amity’s Bibles are printed for domestic consumption.
Can I get an ‘Amen!’?
And here’s where the gawdless pinko commies have one up on the islamo-fascists:
“Before I came to work here, I had never heard of the Bible,” said Yi Shuhong, 40, a 20-year employee.
Like many co-workers her age, she had years of exposure to the holy text at work, and that helped open her heart to Christianity. Those who converted said they were won over by proselytizers who came to their homes and who perhaps believed that their jobs made them more willing to listen.
“No one in my family believes in God,” Yi said. “But they are not against me for converting.”
TY HA
