Christians face harassment and disruption in Beijing crackdown on religion, US government agency reports

In their effort to “exert total control” over religion and to “sinicise” Catholic and Protestant Christianity, the authorities have “ordered the removal of crosses from churches [and] replaced images of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary with pictures of President Xi Jinping,” the report said.

The report concluded that “every facet of religious life for Buddhists, Catholics and Protestant Christians, Muslims, and Taoists” was facing pressure to incorporate CCP ideology, and religious elements considered contradictory to the state’s political agenda were being eradicated.

  • Default_DefectEnglish
    11·
    2 hours ago

    Managed to make religion more believable by replacing the made up with real people.

    • GiveMemes@jlai.luEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      I mean if you really don’t think there was a Jesus that existed, was popular, and was executed by the Roman empire, then I think you may be the mistaken one.

      Saying that he wasn’t the son of God and his mother wasn’t a virgin is a different story however

      • Default_DefectEnglish
        1·
        20 minutes ago

        Without the super powers, none of the rest matters.

        The was a Saint Nicholas, doesn’t mean there’s a Santa Claus.

      • havocpants@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        23 minutes ago

        Except there’s no contemporaneous record of jesus either existing or being executed by the Romans, despite them keeping detailed records of people they did execute.