Gravitas: Chinese Female Jesus Cult: A new threat for India
China has a Christian off shoot cult in the early 20th century or so - the "brother" of Jesus has returned. Or maybe that was in the 1800s - part of the Taiping Rebellion.
Kungfu movies were made about it - Hong siquan.
Hong Xiuquan - Wikipedia
Hong Xiuquan (Hakka: Fùng Siu-chhiòn) (1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Hakka Chinese revolutionary who was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion ... Hong dreamt that he did so with the help of his celestial older-brother and a heavenly army. The father figure ..
the leader of the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty. He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over varying portions of southern China, with himself as the "Heavenly King" and self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ.
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