Azeem Ibrahim: The Chinese Communist Party is scared of Christianity.

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The CCP is one of the greatest sources of evil in the world. It was complicit in the spread of Covid, when it could easily have contained it instead of opening flights to virtually every country. The CCP lied, the world bled and died. Millions died, 100s of Millions suffered. The CCP is responsible. It's a Great Glory of Christianity to be feared by such evil men; as the Lord said: "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. [12] Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." [Matthew 5] Beside Persecuted Christians, we stand with our Muslim Friends, and all other persecuted people - I would assume a few good Chinese Atheists too are resisting the CCP Regime and its Brutal Tyranny - opposing the horror of Atheistic Communism that the Godless CCP epitomizes. The Judgment of God will fall on these wicked men soon, as it fell on the Communist Soviet Union.

Why does the CCP persecute Christians, and other Religious People? How can Atheists make No True Scotsman fallacies and claim Atheism and Atheistic Ideologies cannot be justly blamed for this evil? Of course it can. At the very least, Atheists should speak against this and unequivocally condemn it. 

From: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/01/chi...-religion/

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The Chinese Communist Party Is Scared of Christianity
Religion remains one of the greatest sources of resistance to authoritarian rule.
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By Azeem Ibrahim, a columnist at Foreign Policy and a director at the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy. 

JULY 1, 2021, 11:48 AM
In 2018, the Vatican signed a deal with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), attempting to regularize the status of the underground church. The details of the arrangement were kept secret from the laity. Three years later, however, the repression of Christians, whatever their denomination, is at its highest point since the Cultural Revolution. As the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its centenary, Christianity—and other faiths—remain among the challengers it fears most.
Religious controls have been part of communist practice since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China. As a result, churches split into “patriotic” associations, officially sanctioned if frowned upon. Unrecognized denominations’ status ranged, depending on the government’s mood, from fully underground to operating openly but cautiously.
Recent restrictions on Christian practices began to intensify in 2018, the same year the accord with the Vatican was signed. Since then, many churches have been shut down—mostly unsanctioned ones but including some officially recognized groups. Between 5,000 and 10,000 Christian churchgoers have been arrested, some prominent Protestant clergy have been given long prison sentences, and around two-thirds of China’s Protestants have resorted to underground churches in an attempt to avoid police harassment.
Government officials have been asked to compile more details of worshippers, feeding into discrimination in employment, especially in official posts. All children under age 18 have been strictly prohibited from attending any kind of religious education—theoretically already the case but not strongly enforced beforehand. Religious leaders are now expected to spend more time extolling the CCP and Chinese President Xi Jinping personally than they do seeing to their flock. In some churches, icons of Jesus or Mary have already been replaced with portraits of Xi. The old State Administration for Religious Affairs has been abolished and the handling of faith instead moved under the auspices of the United Front—a group that coordinates efforts to coerce all forms of civil society for the party’s ends.

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