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.
I can’t wait to go Christmaos Jinping this year! They just put in a new Target in the workers quarter.
I think this is good actually
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.
I had to double check to see if this was an onion article.
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.
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.
I need to see the nativity scene version of this! But with Xi’s old face on baby Jesus.
When I see tankie lemmings, I just point to this type of stuff…
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.
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.
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
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…Let China dive this shits into Middle East countries’s mouth :)
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.
Are you surprised???
More flabbergasted, really.
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.
