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May
Like most Chinese, I was educated as an atheist. All textbooks, philosophy classes, and conferences taught us that the Christian faith is an ‘opiate of the people’s spirit’ that Westerners use to numb and neutralize the creativity of the Chinese mind. But as a student of English literature at Liaocheng University in Shandong province in 1987, my American teachers after class would sometimes pull out what we Chinese students called a ‘Little Red Book.’ It was a pocket Bible.
From Jesus Loves China, Too, an essay by evangelist Bob Fu for Foreign Policy
