A NATIONAL PRAYER INITIATIVE 

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (the communist regime of China) had been studying America for about 20 years. They had been studying us in order to figure out what was ultimately responsible for the unprecedented success of the United States and western culture, in general, over the last couple of hundred years. We were and remain their arch-enemy. Free markets cannot coexist with the planks of the Communist Manifesto!

They concluded: “We studied everything we could from the historical, political, economic, and cultural perspective. At first, we thought it was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next, we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West is so powerful. The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life... ...was what made possible the emergence of capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics. We don’t have any doubt about this.”

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Primary source documentation: Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest, Penguin Group, London, 2011, pages 256, 287, 365.

Chinese – Academy of Sociology