Anonymous
8/22/2025, 6:02:21 PM
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Could China become Eastern Orthodox?
China is currently suffering from a marriage/dating drought and a resultant birthrate crisis.
Chinese women are too demanding in marriage and often demand bride prices, and there's an oversupply of men. Meanwhile, Russia has an oversupply of women; even before the current war, many of them have been snubbed for being violent/alcoholic/abusive, etc. And because of this, many of the women have started turning towards Chinese men instead, sometimes even starting families and having children. And of course, now that there actually is a war, well...
My question is, could Russian brides convert their Chinese husbands to Eastern Orthodoxy? And could this have a downward effect of spreading Eastern Orthodoxy amongst their children and eventually among the entire population, converting China to an Eastern Orthodox country?
One counterargument to this could be that China doesn't officially recognize any Orthodox churches, only Protestant and Catholic. (The Manchuria region does have a few Orthodox churches, but today they're museums only.) I'm aware many Christians of all denominations condemn the official arms as propagandistic, though.
Any new or splinter "religious movements" in China would easily be brutally suppressed, as we've seen with the FLG and Eastern Lightning. There seems to be more persecution against (and pressure to Sinicize) Abrahamic religions; the late-Qing Taiping Rebellion, and more recently Xinjiang terrorism/separatism, has already left a sour taste in the mouths of the Chinese.
Thus, if Joseph Smith were born in China, I know he was assassinated in our timeline, but the government would see Mormonism more as a threat and work more actively to root out its adherents and dispersion, and we might not see widespread missions, control of an entire state, etc. like today.
Another counterargument could be that China is already a male dominated society. Ironically, it's socialism/the PRC that's best undermined this in Chinese history.
Chinese women are too demanding in marriage and often demand bride prices, and there's an oversupply of men. Meanwhile, Russia has an oversupply of women; even before the current war, many of them have been snubbed for being violent/alcoholic/abusive, etc. And because of this, many of the women have started turning towards Chinese men instead, sometimes even starting families and having children. And of course, now that there actually is a war, well...
My question is, could Russian brides convert their Chinese husbands to Eastern Orthodoxy? And could this have a downward effect of spreading Eastern Orthodoxy amongst their children and eventually among the entire population, converting China to an Eastern Orthodox country?
One counterargument to this could be that China doesn't officially recognize any Orthodox churches, only Protestant and Catholic. (The Manchuria region does have a few Orthodox churches, but today they're museums only.) I'm aware many Christians of all denominations condemn the official arms as propagandistic, though.
Any new or splinter "religious movements" in China would easily be brutally suppressed, as we've seen with the FLG and Eastern Lightning. There seems to be more persecution against (and pressure to Sinicize) Abrahamic religions; the late-Qing Taiping Rebellion, and more recently Xinjiang terrorism/separatism, has already left a sour taste in the mouths of the Chinese.
Thus, if Joseph Smith were born in China, I know he was assassinated in our timeline, but the government would see Mormonism more as a threat and work more actively to root out its adherents and dispersion, and we might not see widespread missions, control of an entire state, etc. like today.
Another counterargument could be that China is already a male dominated society. Ironically, it's socialism/the PRC that's best undermined this in Chinese history.
