RE: Azeem Ibrahim: The Chinese Communist Party is scared of Christianity.
July 25, 2023 at 1:17 am
A little background on Chinese view of religion. What the nominally communist government is doing has nothing to do with atheist “ideology” or communism. It is continuing a Chinese tradition that goes back to pre-historic times. This Chinese tradition also happen to have identical counterparts in European, near and Middle East going back to pre-historic times, except in China the tradition continued largely unbroken down to the present, where as in Europe, near and Middle East the tradition was broken by the rise of Christianity and Islam.
The tradition is religion is a tool of the government and can be shaped as needed for the governance of each state. The emperor is the chief priest. It doesn’t matter which god you believe in, the emperor is the highest authority for interpreting the will of that god, or else your god is no god but a demon.
So To the Chinese, which god you believe in is unimportant so long as you understand your god is subsumed into a heaven that is inseparable from the Chinese state.
The tradition is religion is a tool of the government and can be shaped as needed for the governance of each state. The emperor is the chief priest. It doesn’t matter which god you believe in, the emperor is the highest authority for interpreting the will of that god, or else your god is no god but a demon.
So To the Chinese, which god you believe in is unimportant so long as you understand your god is subsumed into a heaven that is inseparable from the Chinese state.
