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Only US fundamentalists still believe that their God, just as Saddam, personally inflicted death and suffering as retaliation for disobedience. See:



I dont want to jar your thinking about US fundamentalist Christians that much, but just for the sake of clarity I think you should understand that you are probably grossly compartmentalizing this type of Christian belief in assigning it almost exclusively to US Christians.

One of your own countryman, Reinhart Bonnke, (always a hero of mine), is personally responsible for millions upon millions of Africans believing in the same Christian belief as US fundamentalists. Reinhard himself is not politically active at all, but his beliefs in literal Creation, personal God, fall of man, original sin, etc., are exactly like US fundamentalists. He has been holding these crusades ever since I can remember, probably before I was born. I encourage you to take a look at some of the photos on his website which show some of the largest public meetings in the history of Africa. I am not exagerrating when I say that millions have come to Christ because of his efforts. He is a German born and raised evangelist.

REINHART BONNKE

It is true, however, that his ministry receives millions of dollars from US Christians though.

Dr. Yonnggi Cho has the largest, I repeat, the largest church in history in South Korea, his church has 760,000 members, all of them believing in the same literal interpretation of the Bible.
Dr. Cho's church

These two examples are just from my particular denomination, which happens to be charismatic. There might be more Baptists then any other Christian denomination.

The numbers of Christians in China are startling, and is reported to be slowly changing the culture of the nation from within. This one article estimates 30 million Chinese Protestants.
Chiinese Christians

I would also add Mark Swiger because I know him personally, and he is from my hometown, he has reached thousands upon thousands in India, I have seen the video's and photos, I have seen the lines of people, the numbers of committment cards. Swiger

This is just a casual perusal of a few ministries out there which are leading people to Christ and teaching followers about special creation, the fall of man, and a personal God, the list really does go on and on.

I think the Christians you are describing are probably Catholic diests, while it is true that there are a lot of them out there, especially in Europe and other so called civilized countries.

protestant vs catholic

It is evidenced that the poor and oppressed have always embraced Christianity as it is taught in the US, it only seems to be the most priveledged socialistic countries such as France and Germany which maintain a theistic, uninvolved God. That is ironic because all of these spoiled intellectuals who theorize about the nature and causes of suffering and death happen to be the furthest removed from it.