This was in a comment, from “petronius” on a recent Samizdata posting I did about Christianity in China. I was tempted to make it today’s Samizdata quote of the day, but that might confuse things, what with two nearby postings then being about the same thing. So, let it be the quote of the day here:
Rome isnÂ’t making many waves with Beijing right now, but then Rome always takes the long view. Look at what happened in Poland. The party there thought the new Cardinal was a quiet scholar. Imagine their shock when they discovered that he had secretly built an army of the best minds in the country, one student at a time. Those 50 million Bibles are going to explode one of these days, when Beijing least expects it.
IÂ’ve no idea if itÂ’s true, but I love the way he puts it. |