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    Default China Going to REWRITE The BIBLE

    I think the world has gone mad... and China just never ceases to find new ways to control it's people. What a shitty nation.

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    China's Communists Aim to Rewrite the Bible to 'Create a New Version of Christianity'

    As the Chinese coronavirus distracts the world, the Chinese Communist Party has ratcheted up its crackdown on religious freedom, and sources say President Xi Jinping is working on rewriting the Bible itself to “create a new version of Christianity shorn of its transcendent visions and values.”

    Xi Lian, a professor at Duke University Divinity School, told The Wall Street Journal‘s Matthew Taylor King that Beijing doesn’t just want to repress religion — the Chinese Communist Party wants to transform it.

    Lian said Beijing wants to “drain Christianity of its spirit.” China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported last year that Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang had presided over a meeting of so-called scholars and “religious people from the grassroots level” to discuss “making accurate and authoritative interpretations of classical doctrines to keep pace with the times.”

    The Chinese Communist Party sees Christianity, which is likely China’s largest-growing religion, as a unique threat, Lian insisted. He mentioned three key reasons: Christianity’s international connection to believers inside and outside of China; Christianity’s congregational strength — “You have this ability to mobilize a stable, reliable community;” and the faith’s “transcendent vision, transcendent values,” which form a “moral and ideological rivalry” to communism.

    https://pjmedia.com/culture/tyler-o-...ianity-n516101
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    At this point, this even registers on your offended meter? One member mentioned at some point, our children aren't even going to have a reference point to go back to so they have even a clue what actual history is.
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    Religious Liberals here have already transformed Christianity. The churches in Galena praise sodomy, tolerance, BLM, and Antifa. They virtue signal constantly, fly rainbow flags, assist in illegal immigration, and put up signs with nonsense like "hate has no home here". So all China has to do is the same as we've done. Besides, the Chinese invented Catholicism in Cathay, a city called in ancient times "The Universe" (Catholicism means "Universal Religion"). Genghis Khan was a mercenary for the ancient and early Catholic Church, he spread the "Good News" throughout Europe. That church then became the Roman Catholic Church, while the Asian Catholic Church became Buddhism.

    So what the Chinese are doing now is nothing new, it's simply history repeating itself. The new Red Chinese Jesus will condemn us for using X-Box cheat codes. The new Eucharist wafer will be Pringles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    At this point, this even registers on your offended meter? One member mentioned at some point, our children aren't even going to have a reference point to go back to so they have even a clue what actual history is.
    Recall the burning of the Library of Alexandria over 2,000 years ago, which intellectuals (myself included) mourn to this day. In the 1950s, Red China invaded Tibet and smashed thousands of Buddhist monasteries and their libraries to bits, taking with it thousands of years of accumulated knowledge, so that today there is declining wisdom in Tibet as well as the world. ISIS (Israeli Secret Service) destroyed a great many important historical sites in Syria and elsewhere in their bid to rewrite history. Further, I predict that the Library of Congress and Internet Archive will soon suffer the same fate. And our public schools having been so dumbed-down, they won't be missed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hot Dogger View Post
    Religious Liberals here have already transformed Christianity. The churches in Galena praise sodomy, tolerance, BLM, and Antifa. They virtue signal constantly, fly rainbow flags, assist in illegal immigration, and put up signs with nonsense like "hate has no home here". So all China has to do is the same as we've done. Besides, the Chinese invented Catholicism in Cathay, a city called in ancient times "The Universe" (Catholicism means "Universal Religion"). Genghis Khan was a mercenary for the ancient and early Catholic Church, he spread the "Good News" throughout Europe. That church then became the Roman Catholic Church, while the Asian Catholic Church became Buddhism.

    So what the Chinese are doing now is nothing new, it's simply history repeating itself. The new Red Chinese Jesus will condemn us for using X-Box cheat codes. The new Eucharist wafer will be Pringles.
    @Hot Dogger Be very wary of saying anything that may be perceived as derogatory about Catholics here... just a friendly heads up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    @Hot Dogger Be very wary of saying anything that may be perceived as derogatory about Catholics here... just a friendly heads up.
    Simply not true. Folks can speak their minds on whatever issue they want. We don't want FEUDING, which is a separate issue entirely.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimnyc View Post
    Simply not true. Folks can speak their minds on whatever issue they want. We don't want FEUDING, which is a separate issue entirely.
    Or baiting.


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    Btw, this was locked for good reason.

    As for the subject and link to article? Anyone is free to start a new identical thread if they would like, let's just leave certain things out of public discussions. Folks are able to discuss any subject they feel like. I prefer staff subjects, complaints, bitching or whatever - take it to PM.
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