>christian priest keeps thumping the bible >draws fresco

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>And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

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The brazen serpent as a type of Christ would make a wonderful evangelizing strategy for China.

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Inb4 evangelitards say it's Satanic.

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This one even looks like a Chinese dragon.

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>>2631212
Better quality.

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My personal favorite

Guys, my personal belief is that the snake has a sacred importance and that the story is different because demiurge, but I want to know if shit started in some monks head because of the imagery.

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>>2630925
Your very premise is faulty. Pic related is an Orthodox Priest carrying a staff with two dragons. It's true that the devil assumed the form of a serpent, not a dragon. This doesn't mean serpents across the board were considered evil. In the New Testament Jesus told the apostles to be innocent as doves but wise as serpents. It's an animal analogy like being brave like lion.

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>>2630925
>The West
>Dragons are bad, God is man

>The East
>Dragons are gods, man is bad

Really makes you think, and I mean that unironically

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Better question, how big was the impact to Christians when the Book of Revelations finally came full circle and addressed that the Great Beast = [spoiler]the old serpent[/spoiler] for the first time? Imagine the tens of thousands of years the twist was brewing. Literally since the dawn of man.

I'd have been so mad if somebody spoiled that for me.

>>2631355
neither of those views are representative of those places

>>2631388
not very considering christians didn't care for their religion other than to use it as a form of demagogary

>>2631405
Yes they are

>>2632134
No, they aren't.

>>2632219
Prove it.