On Tuesday, Terry Gou of Foxconn fame announced that he is running for president, and claimed that Mazu, the goddess of the sea, told him to run. In Taiwan, that is a pretty big claim, because Mazu is the most venerated of all the Chinese deities here.
But yesterday there was a powerful earthquake in northern Taiwan. So the joke making the rounds is that Tudigong (God of the earth) seems to disagree.
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| Mazu |
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| Tudigong |
There are more local deities than you can shake a stick at, and if they all decide to start endorsing presidential candidates, it will get pretty complicated. Much easier in America, where you only have to worry about which candidate Jesus loves the most*.
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| Guan Gong also frowns on Terry Gou's shenanigans, but to be fair he frowns on pretty much everyone's shenanigans. |
*Turns out it's Tulsi Gabbard, which is kind of weird, what with her being a Hindu and all.
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