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China has a growing number of Christians, and that's causing increasing tensions with the officially atheistic ruling Chinese Communist Party. China's solution is if you can't beat 'em, co-opt them.
中國的基督教徒越來越多，導致與無神論的GCD的關系越發的緊張。中國的解決方式是如果你無法打敗它那就收編它。
"Over the past decades, the Protestant churches in China have developed very quickly with the implementation of the country's religious policy," says Wang Zuoan, director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, according to the state-run China Daily newspaper. "The construction of Chinese Christian theology should adapt to China's national condition and integrate with Chinese culture," including its path of socialism.
“過去幾十年來，新教教會在中國宗教政策的實施下發展的非常快速，”國家宗教事務管理局局長王作安說，《中國日報》報道。“中國基督教神學的構建應該適應中國的國情，并與中國文化融合，”包括其社會主義路線。
Christians in China have to worship in state-approved and supervised churches, and official estimates number the country's Protestant population at 23 million to 40 million, with 500,000 more baptized each year. Wang was speaking at an event in Shanghai to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China. He didn't address the estimated 12 million Catholics in China, about half of whom illegally follow the lead of the Roman Catholic Church while the other half worship in the officially sanctioned, Vatican-rejecting Catholic church.
中國的基督教徒只能在國家批準和監管的教堂里禱告，官方估計中國新教徒數量在2300萬到4000萬，每年新增50萬。王是在上海參加新教三自愛國教會全國委員會成立60周年紀念日上講這番話的。他并沒有提及在中國的預計的1200萬天主教徒，其中大約一半非法的聽從羅馬天主教會的領導，其余一半則聽從中國官方支持的、梵蒂岡反對的天主教會的領導。
Wang didn't elaborate on this new "Chinese Christian theology," but the Three-Self Patriotic Movement's Gu Mengfei explained that the year-old Chinese push to promote correct Christian theology encourages pastors and laypeople alike to extract moral teachings in line with Biblical times and with other religious faiths. "This will encourage more believers to make contributions to the country's harmonious social progress, cultural prosperity, and economic development," Gu added.
王并沒有對這種新的“中國基督教神學”做過多的闡述，但是三自愛國教會的顧夢菲解釋說，一年來，中國積極推進正確的基督教神學觀，鼓勵牧師和俗人吸收圣經時代的道德教化以及其他的宗教信仰。“這將鼓勵更多的信教者為國家和諧的社會進步、文化繁榮和經濟發展做出貢獻，”顧說。
