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Originally Posted by Ohio
Then why was China the "virgin soil?" Why not Czech, Germany, or Bohemia? Why not India? I'm still purging my memory of Lee's tall tales of revisionist church history.
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Because the Middle Kingdom is in the middle of the Chinese map. Just as North America is at the top of the North American map. "
Ethnocentrism," I believe the textbooks call it -- and we can fill in the blank for whatever
ethnos it happens to be, wherever it happens to be.
Just the way of the world, I guess. Not such a bad thing -- so long as we're able and willing to acknowledge it for what it is.