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

[The Grand Nudger]

What is it that you think happened after covid?

[Bucky Ball]

I watched Michael Woods series on China.
Beautiful and fascinating. It's amazing the progress China made in the past few decades. Truly amazing the progress they show.
Whatever they are all about, they have something which works amazingly well for them.
I've only been there twice, but I assure you they don't sit around whining about being Christian and "persecuted".
https://www.pbs.org/show/story-china/

[no one]

Just like Angrboda claimed you worthless fucking coward. When your stupid little book of lies and manipulation cannot justify a resolution, you either ignore what is being asked of you, or you begin a new thread.

You are a gutless moron.
I hope you don't have any kids.

[The Grand Nudger]

Well, he's got the gist of it right, most conspiracy theories start out with some little nugget. Whatever they have that's working well by whatever metric is definitely interested in suppressing christianity in china. Just not because of some shadowy "they" afraid of jesus , or even the message of christianity. They would very much like a christianity they control. Nish seems to believe that his religion is a competitor to authoritarian government and I'm inclined to believe he's right about that, at least. In that his religion is a competing authoritarian government. China certainly appreciates the game, even if it's not fond of the players.

[Angrboda]

[Fake Messiah]

The CCP is one of the greatest sources of evil in the world.

But still not as evil as Catholic Church.

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.

Going into conspiracies I see.

Atheistic Ideologies

Again, the non sequitur crap.

Religion, as the writer said, is one of the greatest sources of resistance to authoritarian rule

Religion is authoritarian rule, not the resistance. Like when Mussolini created the Vatican.



Or when popes coronated kings in Europe instead of allowing democratic elections. Catholic Church was telling people that Jesus wants these autocrats in power.



It was like that until atheists took over and brought democracy to people.

[Anomalocaris]

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.