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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.
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Lmao that’s fucking hilarious.
NK levels of brain rot here we come!
Right on track to repeat the horrors of the past with complete blind faith in himself.
I can’t wait to watch him fall on his face royally.
That’s a fairly direct transition.
Saint Winnie the Pooh
Seriously the onion can’t keep up with reality.
This worked out great for Lenin and Stalin who just skipped the middle step and outlawed the church, then put their statues everywhere
Dictators always do that.
And, not because they’re atheists as the butthurt Christians so often claim.
It’s all about centralized control and not allowing for divided loyalties or spaces for people to gather outside the party’s control.
The US has it figured out, give the churches that support you special privilege
And slaughtered a lot of clerical people in the wake. There is a monastry where more than 1000 monks have been murdered under Stalins influence in Mongolia.
Overall tens of thousands of clerical people must have been murdered under Stalin
I watched “The Man in the High Castle”, and the Christian imagery and symbolism in a former Christian Church were replaced with Nazi symbolism. I thought it was a bit farfetched, but now hearing something similar being done by China as part of totalitarianism, it is rather spooky. I’ve heard religious buildings being destroyed, but converting places of worship and blatantly removing its past to align with state ideology is far more surreal and haunting, and I am an agnostic atheist.
I can’t wait to go Christmaos Jinping this year! They just put in a new Target in the workers quarter.
I had to double check to see if this was an onion article.
she came into the manger, way overdue,
and plonked herself down next to the ewe.
then – leaning back on the cow –
did she, the great chairman mao,
immaculately embirth winnie the pooh.
Don’t give them ideas!
No, this would be a fun one to watch! Imagine them claiming that Xi is 2000+ yrs old and he just came to power…now?
ಠ_ಠ
IYKYK 🤪
So techically these are Chinese sheeps, Chinese fodder, Chinese cloaks… A lot of things are coming to mind
A Chinese Mohammed A Chinese Jerusalem A Chinese Israel
Ai had difficulty to do a nativity scene without Mary 😀
Replace Mary in the manger with Mao. Now Mao is giving birth to Jesus. Weirdo.
Replace baby Jesus with adult Mao in the manger.
I wouldn’t be able to stop laughing in that church.
Maohammed when?
As a Muslim this is one of the times I’m glad paintings of humans and animals are haram in Islam. We don’t got none of that shit in mosques (or anywhere else, really).
Also Islam rejects intercessors. We pray to Allah s.w.t. and only to him. We asked for forgiveness for our sins from him and him alone. The prophets and messangers a.s. were all humans of best character and faith, which is why they were honored but also challenged with their tasks.
This is why countries like China are particularly oppressive towards Islam. The faith is structured in a way that makes it more difficult to coopt it into exerting control over people for a government. Unfortunately we see (partly) successfull attempts at it like in Saudi Arabia. But they also control two of the holyest sites with Meqqa and Medina.
If i understand correctly China is oppressing Buddhism more strongly too because it is also not well controllable. But i have to admit that i know little about the details of buddhist spirituality/religion.
Many mosques in Xinjiang are reportedly damaged or destroyed though. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67483202.amp
Yeah Muslims are a bit sensitive when it comes these kinds of things
That’s like saying “catholics are a bit sensitive when it comes to eating meat on fridays”. It’s a nonsense statement
Well you could look at incidence where things got out of hand like the “Muhammad cartoons crisis”.
Or just look what happened in Sweden with the Quran
I think Muslims take this more seriously because, as someone who grew up in a region where most people identified Catholic (and most of the rest just had no religion) but didn’t practice much, I wasn’t even aware of that rule.
It is quite weird with catholics also. You should not make an image of god is part of the commandments, yet there is all the depictions of some old bearded white dude like in the sixtine chapel.
That’s one of the dumber things I’ve heard today. Luckily it’s still early, plenty more dumb stuff to read.
Is this just militant atheism or are you trying to make some kind of point?
I need to see the nativity scene version of this! But with Xi’s old face on baby Jesus.
the spectre of communism immaculately impregnated mao, who gave birth to xi.
Please someone paint a Mohammed with Mao or Xi’s face on it :)
The holy Xinity
the father son and holy ghost
The father, the son, the Winnie the Pooh.
Hey, finally, a religion tankies are comfortable with!
Upon further consideration, it was decided that perhaps what Marx had meant was that certain varieties of opium were, in fact, good for the people.
That’s not even a Chinese innovation. At least the Chinese gave Mao a proper burial instead of desecrating his corpse Christian saint/Lenin style.
What the actual fuck???
Same shit, different century. Ever look up the actual history of Christmas or Easter? They were pagan holidays and Christian rulers forced everyone to jam as much Christian stuff into them as they could.
It’s literally one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Honestly, concerns over the possibility that religion might be a political opponent and trying to neutralize it by replacing figures with one’s own are not new.
It’s just a little unusual to have it happening in 2024 between gods and secular leaders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_syncretism
Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition.
This can occur for many reasons, where religious traditions exist in proximity to each other, or when a culture is conquered and the conquerors bring their religious beliefs with them, but do not succeed in eradicating older beliefs and practices.
concerns over the possibility that religion might be a political opponent and trying to neutralize it by replacing figures with one’s own are not new.
It’s been a pretty common thing that dictators have done throughout recorded history.
It’s not about agreeing or disagreeing with the specifics of the church, it’s about eliminating divided loyalties.
Are you surprised???
More flabbergasted, really.
