Toronto, Canada - “God towards China”, a cultural seminar hosted by Association of Canadian Chinese Theological Education and co-hosted by Grace to Chinese International kicked off from the east coast of Canada on Apr. 12th.
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| Professor He shared that morality of China today needs the spirit of Christianity. |
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The organizer has invited two professors of religious studies from universities in China - He Guang Hu and Gao Shi - to speak at the cities of Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, and Montreal.
On Apr. 13th, the gathering began with the crowd singing “Mission China” and showing film clips of testimonies from pastors and various brother sand sisters.
That day, He Guang Hu, professor of Remin University of China School of Philosophy in Religious Studies, spoke as the main-speaker about “Christianity and Spirit of Morality of China Today.” He spoke on three aspects: “The morality of China today”, “morality and social institutions” and “Christianity and China’s Spirit of Morality.”
In the beginning, Professor He spoke from the perspectives of Sociology, Economics and History to illustrate the situation of the distortion of morality today. Speaking about filial piety, according to a 2006 report conducted by Supreme People's Procuratorate, approximately 80% of the seniors in China are forced to live alone, and 86% of them got sick heavily but could not afford to visit hospital. Their sons and daughters enjoyed a high standard of living, but very few of them abides by a very important Chinese culture, which is “filial piety comes before hundreds good works.”
China today is facing a major problem in the upholding of integrity. In 2002, numerous reports of theft, counterfeits, and falsification of financial reports and numbers in transactions, occurred, and the frequency of them seriously lower the level of trust within the market and in business deals.
When addressing the abidance of the rules and regulations, the professor expressed that by the road in China today, you can see signs that say “Let’s Clean this World”, but so many people still just toss their trash on the floor while standing beside the sign. These kinds of behaviors of knowing and saying one thing but doing another occur quite rampantly.
Professor He said, “Social policies influences morality.” These kinds of immoral conducts can be attributed to the flaws, deterioration, and injustice of the social system. He listed several examples of corruptions such as constructions supposedly carried out in the name of maintenance rebuilding, Quotas on Imports, and Land Requisition System.
The social policy of constructions supposedly carried out in the name of maintenance rebuilding allows government officials to use public funds in building magnificent buildings or reception areas, allowing them to develop the bad habit of abusing the funds.
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