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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
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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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.
This worked out great for Lenin and Stalin who just skipped the middle step and outlawed the church, then put their statues everywhere
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.
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 😀
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!
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.
I think this is good actually
I need to see the nativity scene version of this! But with Xi’s old face on baby Jesus.
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).
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.
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?
Good thing all the sources are from US based institutions and NGOs. Must mean they are completely factual and unbiased.
First that’s attacking the messenger not the message. Cope. Second seeing how ML rely on information disproven nearly 100 years ago. And how ML state media is worse than western media on every metric. A true accomplishment! It’s an especially sad and hilarious tactic.
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.
When I see tankie lemmings, I just point to this type of stuff…
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
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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.
