Religion in China: Worship the CCP! By James Reed
With the drift of parts of the West to communist China, it is worthwhile looking closely at how their system works, so-called. What about religious freedom? Forget about the organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners, what about more traditional religions? Well, the CCP has revised its “Administrative Measures for Religious Activity Venues,” which holds that churches be required to demonstrate it “supports the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, supports the socialist system,” and “carries out in-depth implementation of Xi Jinping Thought” to maintain its license to operate. Shades of Chairman Mao! It is like Henry Ford saying that one could have any colour of the T model Ford, so long as it is black!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China
“The Chinese government recently published a draft version of the 2023 “Administrative Measures for Religious Activity Venues,” a set of restrictions on religion that are even tighter than the 2005 rules they will supersede.
Among other changes, a house of worship will now be required to demonstrate it “supports the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, supports the socialist system,” and “carries out in-depth implementation of Xi Jinping Thought” to maintain its license to operate.
Xi Jinping Thought is the political philosophy of the current Chinese dictator. It has been written into the Chinese constitution and incorporated into the Chinese Communist Party’s rulebook, to the exclusion of all other ideologies, even the writings of Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong. Xi Jinping Thought is mandatory reading for schoolchildren and taught in college as though it were a great work of literature.
The new regulations require religious institutions to energetically embrace “Sinicization,” which means hollowing out the religion and replacing it with Chinese Communist Party dogma.
“Note that it is not enough to refrain from dissent. Places of worship, whose ‘liquidation’ is made quicker and easier, should actively preach ‘love for the motherland, and support for the leadership of the CCP and the socialist system,’” observed China watchdog site Bitter Winter on Friday.
The 2023 regulatory update requires all houses of worship to promote the “national language,” a clear burden on groups like the Tibetan Buddhists and Uyghur Muslims.”
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