I’m not trying to be argumentative, just pointing out that these were the reactions of different members of my external family to my family’s transition to Catholism in a largely Buddhist/Taoist area. My grandfather actually beat the living crap out of my father when he said he was converting, only to be dissuaded by sympathetic relatives present at the time. He finally converted on his deathbed just 3 days prior to his demise.
I mean, you see why I’m so pro freedom of individuals? Because it applies to so many things that one society can deem completely unacceptable while another can fully embrace. It’s not perfect, just better than the alternative IMHO. There are bad things, there are good things, and there are things that we don’t yet fully understand.
Were we wrong to go against accepted social norms or “moral behavior” that defined the part of society we lived in while influencing other extended family members to convert too? If you believe in a Christian hell, we managed to avoid it while all the others are going to weep and gnash their teeth for all eternity.
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Hell, I’ll even tell you some of the insults I got all the way to the early 90s.
“Lapdog of Western colonizers.”
“Not Chinese anymore/Fake Chinese/Fake Westerner.”
“Race traitor”
“Banana - yellow on the outside, white on the inside.”
When you look at these statements, you can see it’s not even a religious issue, but a cultural one, i.e, a reaction to the fear of cultural erosion.