This article is no good. The noted Dr. El Tassa was not talking about the Chinese people under Communist China.
He/she got the concept of Chinese being too simple because lack of concept of god, from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (in his own words, ‘intellectual KGB of China’).
Even if the intellectuals believe in something else, they won’t speak out loud to noted Dr. El Tassa (the first westerner ever got a graduate degree from such institution). They will have suspected he is a complete convert to the Marxism God and therefore, the bait.
And yes, in this case, both the interviewer and Dr. El Tassa are the simpletons themselves.
” The noted Dr. El Tassa was not talking about the Chinese people under Communist China.”
(I posted my first comment without even reading it)
If you want to speak of the average Chinese family living out in the country then maybe you are correct. But, I think the same “propaganda” forces that inspire worship, love, real emotion toward a Dear Leader are the same forces that inspired the desire for a Der Fuerer in Germany in the 1930’s.
A large part of the United States fell for the same lie in 2008. We are constantly bombarded by brainwashing that the answer is always a bigger and stronger government.
When the concept of sin is discarded there is no need for a Saviour.
When moral depravity is replaced in the mind by materialism then concepts like Communism are birthed.