Encouraging note of the day

Wow, this is cool! (when disregarding the swipe at W at the end anyway)  From this article.

Eighteenth-century missionaries can rest easily in their graves, said Spengler, a pseudonymous columnist, in the Hong Kong online Asia Times. Chinese are converting to Christianity en masse. Some 10,000 Chinese accept Jesus Christ as their savior every day. That’s every day. The National Catholic Reporter reckons that by mid-century, China will be home to 200 million Christians—the largest concentration in any country. The evangelizing power of American-style Pentecostalism is proving irresistible to millions of Chinese who feel lost in the swirl of rapid eco­nomic growth and mass urban migration. The surge of belief is already having an impact on Chinese life. Barred from worshipping publicly, Chinese Christians meet in their homes, and the resulting network of the faithful is already creating a “leaven of democracy” that the communist regime can’t control. “These fearless grass-roots evangelists will do more to bring democracy to the world than all the bluster of President George W. Bush.”