Fortunately, "Taiwan isn't a place that supports such extremist beliefs," says Lin Pen-hsuan, an associate professor at Aletheia University who has been researching new religions for more than a decade. He observes that Chinese have traditionally held extremely practical religious beliefs, which have emphasized "seeking rewards in one's own lifetime."
還好，「台灣沒有這種極端信仰的土壤」，研究新興宗教十多年的真理大學宗教學系助理教授林本炫指出，傳統中國人的信仰非常現實，講求的是「現世的福報」。