Comments by "Patrick T" (@patrickt49) on "Torrential Rain in Shanghai Turns the Global City Into a Vast Ocean, Instantly a Maritime City" video.

  1. Most Chinese don't believe in a higher power. It's considered an atheist nation. "A little examination of Chinese ideas of religion reveals much that is significant. To begin, their sages have reverenced Confucius conspicuously, but not in the sense of religious adoration. The feeling was philosophic accolade and an avowed obligation of emulation. The common people know vaguely of Confucianism and Buddhism and Taoism, terms which among them are mere misnomer identifications of misty superstitions and proprietary rites, having little or no connection with tenets of organized religious cults." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China). "Theology and ethics are in practically no sense related in Chinese conceptions. In certain respects that is perhaps in their favor, for their deplorable ethics get them into trouble enough, and if they wrangled over notions of theology in addition, the chaos would be beyond imagination. And at least the separation of religion and ethics, as a spectacle, is in favorable contrast to the situation in parts of the world where constant inbreeding of the two has produced monstrosities of both. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend "The average Chinese may be shot at, starved, plundered and everything else, but he is emphatically not introspectively conscious of himself in the Hindu and Christian sense as a sore-footed pilgrim needing spiritual liniment. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend
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