Because thoughts are not thoughts and thoughts are not books, they are Paradigms.
The paradigm of Confucianism is still there.
It is completely not the same with the Western Europe.
In Western Europe, their paradigm is the beginning and the end. The strength of Christian faith is still there.
People will not doubt about the meaning of love and the meaning of forgiveness in a Christian faith.
Yet the Chinese still believes that mercy is not to forgive, as Confucius said 以直报怨(yǐzhí-bàoyuàn)
That means to use a right method to retaliate or to bring the offender to justice.
It cannot be wrong, though it is lacking some spirit of love.
It is not easy to love your enemy in Confucianism.
The paradigm is still functioning.
In the mind of Jesus, loving and forgiving is utmost important. It's the only way to settle human affairs.
Jesus had been suppressed by the Jews. Yet he did not have the thought to retaliate.
A sincere thinker about Jesus can read his mind, even though he did not mention it sometimes.
When he said, "I desire mersy, not sacrifice", he was to dispute against the Old Testament, where God had required Abraham to kill his own son to sacrifice.
Can you refuse to kill your son?
Yet Jesus was not arguing, he was doing his own way only.
Jesus cannot or will not get out from the old paradigms of the Jews. The idea of beginning and ending was from the Jews.
Beginning and ending thoughts had made the Western Europeans suffer.
That is the reason for them going to a climax of anti-wisdom from the early Renaissance. They have brought Europe to a stage of no hope. Europe became an affiliate to the United States. They cannot make their own decisions anymore.
It is the result of the old and strong paradigm.
Yet China could be more or less the same.
The following is an article from five years ago.
It is not comfortable as it is also the result of an old paradigm.
http://leechardasks.blogspot.com/2018/06/how-fast-can-chinese-pick-up-science.html
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