Sola Fide vs Sola Bona

Xiaoming Guo
2 min readOct 13, 2021

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If Muslims become the majority in China, then the branch of Islam in China must be Confucianized.

The Buddhist religion propagated into China from India. Now Buddhists have become the majority in China and the minority in India. Now most Buddhists in the world are confucianized Buddhism, such as zen in Japan.

Monotheist religions, such as Judaism, Christian, and Islam, have the same theology doctrine as Sola Fide. All religions compatible with Confucian have the same theology doctrine of Sola Bona. As a consequence, religions in China can coexist peacefully for the single common key: Be Good. They have a different faith; however, they respect each other regardless of the faith. Everyone can choose his faith to be good, just like go a different route to Rome. Sola Bona is the basics for feasible Freedom of Religion.

On the contrary, Sola Fide is an exclusive doctrine: my faith is the truth; your faith is evil. In such a doctrine, every religion asks for freedom but discriminates against other beliefs. Thus, Sola Fide doctrine is intrinsically incompatible with the ideal of Freedom of Religion. That is why the West has always been in religious wars for thousands of years.

Muslims become the majority in China only if the branch in China replaces Sola Fide with Sola Bona as its doctrine.

Buddhist religion came to China and became part of Chinese culture. Communists come from Europe into China. The communist in China is Confucianized as Mao Ze-dong thought, and has become part of Chinese culture. Buddhism and Communism are compatible with Chinese culture because of Sola Bona.

West puts faith above good. For their faith, they can do good or bad, such as IS has faith in Allah. Faith is the goal of life, and being good is the path to faith.

China puts Good above faith. Being good is the goal of life, and faith is the path to good.

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Xiaoming Guo
Xiaoming Guo

Written by Xiaoming Guo

Ph.D. from McGill University. MBA from Queen’s University. A patriot Canadian believes that a good relationship with China serves our best national interest.

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