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I pity your stupidity: yes, your stupidity. what do you know of paths of truth and goodness? This Jesus, born 1,860 years ago. . . Confucius, born some 550 years before him--in the time of the Zhou Dynasty--left the tradition of his great words and deeds for the instruction of Asia and its outlying islands. . . Why do you, an Asian, reject this for something else? (83)
Zhang does not admit of the possibility that other religions have something valuable to offer or that those pursuing them might be doing so for the same reasons members of his own religion do, and he tells the young man that the only reason he is becoming a missionary is for profit, "a small personal profit at the expense of a greater injustice, oblivious of you
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