The Comparitive Study Of God Worship And Cheondogyo

In the middle of the 19th century, China and North Korea due to domestic political corruption and the invasion of foreign capitalism, factors? faced with serious social crisis and the national crisis.The traditional Confucianism although it still holds the dominant position in China and North Korea, but with the Chinese and North Korean opened in Hong Kong, western religion in China and Korea spread increasing. In China, Hong Xiuquan combined with their own development experience and the social situation at that time, combining Christianity and Confucianism, founded the "God worship". In North Korea. Choe Che-u combined with social situation and their own understanding of "Western learning", combined with the idea of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Christianity, founded the "Tonghak". "Tonghak" after the continuous development and improvement, and the third generation leader Sun Bingxi was renamed "Cheondogyo". "God worship" and "Cheondogyo" although founded in China and Korea, two different countries, but their doctrine and the contents of has strong mysterious religious overtones, by "stretch" theory of emphasizing religious uniqueness and "day" can affect the lives of the toiling masses. "God worship" and "Cheondogyo" and the peasant movement combining, in the anti feudal, anti aggression struggle play an important role. But "God worship" and "Cheondogyo" in the creation of purpose, some differences exist in the attitude of Confucianism and Christianity, for God’s understanding and historical role. "God worship" played a positive role in the early movement of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but in the development process gradually deviated from the reality, become the idealist product of feudal superstition, eventually with Hong Xiuquan’s departure to fade out the stage of history; "Cheondogyo" has been actively promoting the development of Korea’s modern history, the Joseon Dynasty carry out the future struggle against aggression to the role, "Cheondogyo" through the development of several generations, today still exist.