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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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the spectre of communism immaculately impregnated mao, who gave birth to xi.
The holy Xinity
the father son and holy ghost
Please someone paint a Mohammed with Mao or Xi’s face on it :)
What the actual fuck???
Are you surprised???
More flabbergasted, really.
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.
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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 😀
Hail,
MaryMao, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,JesusXi.
HolyMaryMao, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.Hail,
MaryMao, full of grace…When I see tankie lemmings, I just point to this type of stuff…
Does it help?
You point to poorly sourced telegraph articles and you expect to be taken seriously?
I need to see the nativity scene version of this! But with Xi’s old face on baby Jesus.
Let China dive this shits into Middle East countries’s mouth :)
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).
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?
Neither? Being glad art is banned for any reason is dumb to me.
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.
There are many more examples than just Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan comes to mind but also many other Muslim countries use Islam and Shari’a law to control the population or use religious laws as an excuse for their authoritarianism. No religion is free of that.
Rejecting intercessors has not worked out, has it? See Sunni vs Shia.
Most religions in China get the same treatment from the CCP.
Christian communities have had similar experiences.
In 2016, thousands of crosses were torn down from churches throughout Zhejiang Province. The authorities have also broken up congregations that have not been approved by the state, while church leaders have been arrested and jailed.
The demolition of domes, crosses and minarets and their replacement by Chinese-styled tiled roofs and Buddhist-styled pagodas. It involves mandatory patriotic education for Buddhist, Christian and Muslim clergy and it entails party-approved sermons and prayers.
South of Xinjiang in Tibet, the authorities have restricted the practice of Tibetan Buddhism over the last decade. Religious festivals have been banned more frequently and government employees, teachers and students have been barred from participating in religious activities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/26/a-jealous-god-china-remakes-religions-in-its-own-image
Which one is Mary, and which Jesus?
Obviously Mao is Mary, giving birth to Xi the Jesus, that will be betrayed by his own government.
Can’t say China is anti lgbt now as Mao Zhedong is trans all along.
Mother Mao-ry and little baby Xi-sus.
Mao Nodong
Good thing all the sources are from US based institutions and NGOs. Must mean they are completely factual and unbiased.
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.
Keep waiting, bud.
Yeah say whatever you want about Xi’s rapid descent into red fascism, his rule seems stable enough, and with how humans work it’s going to stay that way as long as the economy keeps growing. And it WILL keep growing because that’s just how industrialization works.
This worked out great for Lenin and Stalin who just skipped the middle step and outlawed the church, then put their statues everywhere
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
The Chinese approach is far more effective I fear. The Soviet way worked only with mixed results and was more ideology driven than logical. In Poland, the Catholic Church became a huge factor in the opposition because of that. If religion is deeply rooted in society, controlling and steering religion makes for a powerful tool to control the masses while fighting it automatically makes it a strong opposition force.
That’s a fairly direct transition.
An outrageous claim from the Telegraph. I need a second source.
Managed to make religion more believable by replacing the made up with real people.
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
Without the super powers, none of the rest matters.
The was a Saint Nicholas, doesn’t mean there’s a Santa Claus.
Okay, but Mao is treated like a pseudo-godlike figure in China, similar to how Jesus was a guy but is treated like a god by Christians.
Sure, but I know Mao existed. Son of God Jesus of Nazareth™ didn’t exist. A Jesus that might have caused a ruckus back in the day is not the same thing as a born of a virgin demi-god.
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.
That’d be true for the vast majority of figures from that time. Also I’d like to see evidence for your implied claim that apparently the Romans kept vast swathes of paperwork concerning executions and that the vast majority of it was preserved until this day.
