The sudden order to remove the symbol of the cross from the roof and entrance of a village church in China’s Anhui province cited unspecified “safety” hazards.
The notice, issued in March, was a shock to the church in Yongqing, eastern China, which had reportedly passed official safety inspections for the cross on the roof five years ago. The second cross had stood at the door of the church for over 40 years without any security concerns.
ChinaAid, a US-based group that advocates for religious freedom in China, alleged the order had been made by the villagers’ committee with no legal basis, suggesting it may have originated with higher-level authorities who wanted to avoid international criticism.
Its investigation pointed to a report from 2019 of a Catholic church in the eastern province of Jiangxi that was forced to replace a painting of the Virgin Mary with her child with one of President Xi.
>During the war, Rosenberg drafted a plan for the future of religion in Germany which would see a Positive Christian Reich influenced by Germanic paganism conduct the “expulsion of the foreign Christian religions”, the replacement of the Bible as the supreme religious authority with Mein Kampf as the holy scripture of Positive Christianity, and the replacement of the Christian cross with the swastika as the universal symbol of European Christianity in Nazified Christian churches.
We’ve been seeing a play by play of exactly this. The CCP being in power as the public at large just buys crap from China is worrying.
BaronVonLazercorn on
They still allow churches there?
SufferNSucceed on
You think Xi would hang to death on a cross to save his people? “The glorious leader” is naturally jealous.
Lex2882 on
What about Confucius ?
Coast_watcher on
In China the band is called The Xi and Mao Chain
autotldr on
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/xi-and-mao-replace-jesus-and-mary-in-chinese-churches/) reduced by 89%. (I’m a bot)
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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.
> Its investigation pointed to a report from 2019 of a Catholic church in the eastern province of Jiangxi that was forced to replace a painting of the Virgin Mary with her child with one of President Xi. Other similar instances have been recently reported by local media and human rights groups.
> An image from a separate church shows a photograph of Mr Xi at the end of one arm of a cross and Chairman Mao at the end of the other.
The Jesus and Mary Chain would be better than all of them
Puzzled_Pain6143 on
The holy couple? Or mother with baby?
Snafudumonde on
Oh Xi-sus, what next
martapap on
I’d rather die than worship xi.
T4lsin on
I am atheist but I’d prefer Jesus and Mary over the dictators.
Zolo49 on
According to Chinese Christianity, Mao sat on the toilet one day and gave virgin birth to Xi.
Anon_throwawayacc20 on
Never forget that every time these “anti-West” governments posture their hatred of America, it’s not about a polite disagreement with political systems, but because the alternative they are proposing is a totalitarian cult.
bck1999 on
Here’s that religious oppression that US Christians think they are experiencing!
AhhBiteMe on
Trump has basically already done that in many American churches
Elipses_ on
So wait… does this mean Mao has a Male pregnancy? Cause that seems kind of out out of character for.the CCP to claim.
Due-Contact-366 on
So is the idea that Mao’s delivery of Xi was a virgin birth?
babbitts2ndbutthole on
Mao gave birth to Xi without intercourse through the holy spirit?
Aggressive-Falcon977 on
So they gonna crucify Moa now?
NoLime7384 on
uhhhhh, which one of those two is the woman? /s
Count-Elderberry36 on
This has been going on for years in China with churches
Mhdamas on
What bothers me the most about the red fascists is that they don’t even have the balls to admit they are as bad as the nazi they have to pretend they are good people on top of their fascism.
vegetable_completed on
Could be pretty subversive if Xisus is depicted crucified and Maory is in drag.
FlimsyConclusion on
Well that’s disgusting.
But a classic case of dictators co-opting religion to control their people.
Astrangeloo8p on
And the pope is absolutely fine with it
borazine on
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crowmagnuman on
So.. the Jesus and Mary Change?
Rathbane12 on
So you’re telling me Winnie the Pooh had an immaculate conception?
vrenejr on
Didn’t expect the Chinese Jesus for 21 Jump Street to be this absurd.
jmcunx on
I wonder if Xi pictures are also being hung in mosques.
That would be a huge religious violation for Islam.
gamedreamer21 on
That’s a low.
hunterbidenisaddict on
Always knew Mao was a woman and birthed virgin xin
WTFvancouver on
Pretty much Juche at this point
BanjoTCat on
Mao gave a virgin birth to Xi?
EquivalentAcadia9558 on
Which one had the virgin birth
findingmike on
Which one gets nailed to the cross and which one wears the dress?
rosettaSeca on
The Father and Son of China’s cultural destruction
DavidELD on
Second Commandment:
Exodus 20:4-6: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.”
You know what to do to these heretics Chinese Christians. Christian’s do not bow down to false idols, they destroy them.
Accomplished-Mix-745 on
I k is this is horrible and dystopic and stuff, but I can’t get over the idea of making someone keep a painting of your president instead of your god. Like it’s so ridiculous to me. “You know who’s really worthy of worship? Me! Fuck that Jesus guy”
Vectorman1989 on
So, Mao gave birth to Xi?
Mundane_Opening3831 on
Haha Xisus and Maory. So cute. I look forward to all the censored works of art showing the Chairman cradling little baby Xi in her arms
TotoroTheCat on
I would laugh out loud if it’s Winnie the Pooh on a cross.
SauceHankRedemption on
“They are not dictators…they are supreme beings and they do not have a butthole.”
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***The Telegraph reports:***
The sudden order to remove the symbol of the cross from the roof and entrance of a village church in China’s Anhui province cited unspecified “safety” hazards.
The notice, issued in March, was a shock to the church in Yongqing, eastern China, which had reportedly passed official safety inspections for the cross on the roof five years ago. The second cross had stood at the door of the church for over 40 years without any security concerns.
ChinaAid, a US-based group that advocates for religious freedom in China, alleged the order had been made by the villagers’ committee with no legal basis, suggesting it may have originated with higher-level authorities who wanted to avoid international criticism.
# Party slogans and censorship
It was one of multiple examples of oppression cited in a report last week by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an agency that reviews [violations of religious freedoms](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/09/16/china-frees-us-pastor-after-15-years-christian-fundraising/) overseas and makes policy recommendations to the President and Congress.
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](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/24/top-china-economist-disappears-after-criticising-xi-jinping/),” the report said.
[The Chinese government has also required](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/24/robinson-crusoe-among-books-purged-christian-references-china/) “the display of CCP [Chinese Communist Party] slogans at the entrances of churches, censored religious texts, imposed CCP-approved religious materials, and instructed clergy to preach CCP ideology,” the USCIRF report said.
Its investigation pointed to a report from 2019 of a Catholic church in the eastern province of Jiangxi that was forced to replace a painting of the Virgin Mary with her child with one of President Xi.
**Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/xi-and-mao-replace-jesus-and-mary-in-chinese-churches/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/xi-and-mao-replace-jesus-and-mary-in-chinese-churches/)
>During the war, Rosenberg drafted a plan for the future of religion in Germany which would see a Positive Christian Reich influenced by Germanic paganism conduct the “expulsion of the foreign Christian religions”, the replacement of the Bible as the supreme religious authority with Mein Kampf as the holy scripture of Positive Christianity, and the replacement of the Christian cross with the swastika as the universal symbol of European Christianity in Nazified Christian churches.
We’ve been seeing a play by play of exactly this. The CCP being in power as the public at large just buys crap from China is worrying.
They still allow churches there?
You think Xi would hang to death on a cross to save his people? “The glorious leader” is naturally jealous.
What about Confucius ?
In China the band is called The Xi and Mao Chain
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/xi-and-mao-replace-jesus-and-mary-in-chinese-churches/) reduced by 89%. (I’m a bot)
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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.
> Its investigation pointed to a report from 2019 of a Catholic church in the eastern province of Jiangxi that was forced to replace a painting of the Virgin Mary with her child with one of President Xi. Other similar instances have been recently reported by local media and human rights groups.
> An image from a separate church shows a photograph of Mr Xi at the end of one arm of a cross and Chairman Mao at the end of the other.
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How sad for them.
The Jesus and Mary Chain would be better than all of them
The holy couple? Or mother with baby?
Oh Xi-sus, what next
I’d rather die than worship xi.
I am atheist but I’d prefer Jesus and Mary over the dictators.
According to Chinese Christianity, Mao sat on the toilet one day and gave virgin birth to Xi.
Never forget that every time these “anti-West” governments posture their hatred of America, it’s not about a polite disagreement with political systems, but because the alternative they are proposing is a totalitarian cult.
Here’s that religious oppression that US Christians think they are experiencing!
Trump has basically already done that in many American churches
So wait… does this mean Mao has a Male pregnancy? Cause that seems kind of out out of character for.the CCP to claim.
So is the idea that Mao’s delivery of Xi was a virgin birth?
Mao gave birth to Xi without intercourse through the holy spirit?
So they gonna crucify Moa now?
uhhhhh, which one of those two is the woman? /s
This has been going on for years in China with churches
What bothers me the most about the red fascists is that they don’t even have the balls to admit they are as bad as the nazi they have to pretend they are good people on top of their fascism.
Could be pretty subversive if Xisus is depicted crucified and Maory is in drag.
Well that’s disgusting.
But a classic case of dictators co-opting religion to control their people.
And the pope is absolutely fine with it
I’m Shay Tan and I approve this message.
So.. the Jesus and Mary Change?
So you’re telling me Winnie the Pooh had an immaculate conception?
Didn’t expect the Chinese Jesus for 21 Jump Street to be this absurd.
I wonder if Xi pictures are also being hung in mosques.
That would be a huge religious violation for Islam.
That’s a low.
Always knew Mao was a woman and birthed virgin xin
Pretty much Juche at this point
Mao gave a virgin birth to Xi?
Which one had the virgin birth
Which one gets nailed to the cross and which one wears the dress?
The Father and Son of China’s cultural destruction
Second Commandment:
Exodus 20:4-6: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.”
You know what to do to these heretics Chinese Christians. Christian’s do not bow down to false idols, they destroy them.
I k is this is horrible and dystopic and stuff, but I can’t get over the idea of making someone keep a painting of your president instead of your god. Like it’s so ridiculous to me. “You know who’s really worthy of worship? Me! Fuck that Jesus guy”
So, Mao gave birth to Xi?
Haha Xisus and Maory. So cute. I look forward to all the censored works of art showing the Chairman cradling little baby Xi in her arms
I would laugh out loud if it’s Winnie the Pooh on a cross.
“They are not dictators…they are supreme beings and they do not have a butthole.”
Conclusion:
Communist China is Anti-Christianity.