Scholars oppose to build church in Confucius home

Ten scholars sealed as well as published a minute on a Internet in which they dispute skeleton to build a Gothic-style Christian church in a hometown of Confucius. They argued a project could trigger eremite as well as informative conflicts.

The Holy Trinity Church will be built in Yuzhuang encampment in Qufu, Shandong Province, which is 3 kilometers from Confucius' Temple, a Xinhua News Agency reported earlier.

The church could house 3,000 people as well as mount 41.7 meters high. An exchange center for Christianity as well as Confucianism will additionally be built.

The existent church for a 10,000 Christians in Qufu is a makeshift building, a inform quoted Feng Zongjie, head of a Qufu city Committee of Three-Self Patriotic Movement of a Protestant Churches in China, as saying.

An official surnamed Li from a internal Religion as well as Culture Affairs Bureau told a Global Times which a executive government has authorized a project, as well as an earth violation rite was hold in July.

In a minute released Wednesday, a scholars said a government should protect a orthodoxy of Confucius, as well as impose restrictions on alternative religions in a city.

"We believe which Confucius is easy as well as will not have dispute with alternative religions. But you cannot guarantee which all alternative religions will not have dispute among themselves," a minute said.

The minute said a project should be halted, or move 25 kilometers divided from Confucius' Temple.

Chen Ming, one of a scholars as well as executive of a Confucianism Research Center during Beijing Capital Normal University, told a Global Times which they want a government to confess a eremite in front of of Confucianism.

Zhang Yiwu, a deputy executive of a Cultural Resource Research Center during Peking University, backed a idea. "It is inappropriate to bring informative dispute as a reason to reject a church."

Zhou Chi, a Christian in Shanghai, feels a church should be built as prolonged as it is used usually for Christian act! ivities.