Why do the Chinese have so many Money Gods?

[Jaysonava]

From Caishen to Mazu , and many in between, many Chinese Gods are all about money!

Western spirituality has few gods of money.

Had the pagans persisted, and christianity not spoke out so much against money, maybe we would look more like the chinese.

The americans in the south have a totally weird interpretation of christianity, that Jesus wants you to have money... despite saying how much he hates the pursuit of money fairly often.

But the Chinese have many many many money related gods!

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I was not knocking or demeaning the wealth related gods if China at all by the way. I was not trying to insult the culture.

I was trying to be fairly neutral in my observation about wealth and eastern spirituality.

There are a lot of wealth related deities.

[dantetheexplorer]

Your premise is incorrect.

There is one God of Wealth. His name is 財神 (Cáishén).

媽祖 (Māzǔ) is a goddess of the sea, protector of fishermen.

"Western spirituality has few gods of money."

Because in the West, it's easier to worship money directly.
No middleman God needed.

Look at the obscene amount of money people are making in the West.
And people who would bend over backward to acquire it.
That's a form of worshipping as well.

[ibodi]

I support that all people love money initially cause it was necessary happening without contacting westerners. so because of jewish maybe, they really had bad reputation in middle asia. I dont have negative attitude in spit of people say they love money. because like trump is as nero. just want the name of emperor than what happened later. yeah there was a xism from westerners but most of them knew the disadvantage. that is white's intuition. so you know where trump is.

[AshViper]

What are you talking about? The Chinese have only one true god of wealth, Tsai Shen Yeh. Or Caishen as you called him. They have multiple good luck charms that are supposed to bring you wealth but they are not gods.

Hindus & Tibetians associate wealth with multiple gods but like with Jambhala, dubbed a "wealth god" on some anglo-centeric marketing sites, his main role is not wealth but good fortune. What you make of that good fortune is on you.

[Jackblue]

I spent some time in China and in my experience they generally focus less on life after death than Christians are supposed to. Even discussing death will upset some Chinese people. And as you said many Christians subscribe these days to Prosperity Gospel ignoring Jesus' warning about serving to masters though I am not sure that is more heavily a southern American thing.

[wankiam]

people worship money directly in the west... money itself has become a god for many

[SClassWizzard]

Nani? they don't

Have you seen those of the Indians (Hindus) lol try to keep up

[Anonymous]

All serve Mammon, when they don't serve Christ. All money amounts to is materialism or stuff, which everyone serves in the flesh.

[OddBeMe]

Why does Christianity have so many judgmental pricks? Culture.

[Agape93]

Mazu is a fisherman goddess :/ not a wealth deity.

[Jaysonava]

I looked into it and Mazu appears to be a wealth deity

[Agape93]

Not from what I read.

[wankiam]

@Jaysonava dont know where you read that unless you mistook protection and prosperity as a money thing... to me i think its more about ensuring an easier life and its only generally the west that think that must mean you have a healthy bank account and a big house and new car

[Agape93]

Exactly. Prosperity gods and goddesses cover things such as luck, bountiful harvests and things like that. Money gods and goddesses cover finances and wealth, nothing more. It’s like the difference between corn oil and olive oil. Both separate things but are somewhat similar.

[wankiam]

actually i think i would say there is a huge difference in that one gives you a good life for you and yours but the other is all about ammassing powe over others

[Agape93]

Very good way of putting it

[hknmhmn4]

Chinese are atheist

[WadeDanielSmith2]

Very few Chinese are actually "atheists" even the ones who identify as Atheist believe in some sort of God, and about 2% of Chinese are actually Christians.

[hknmhmn4]

@WadeDanielSmith2 The Chinese government is atheist and China is officially atheist state like every communist country is

[hknmhmn4]

Non-Atheists can’t be join the government in China

[hknmhmn4]

can’t join*