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    Xi und Mao ersetzen Jesus und Maria in chinesischen Kirchen

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/xi-and-mao-replace-jesus-and-mary-in-chinese-churches/

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    1. TheTelegraph on

      ***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/)

    2. CathulhuStudios on

      >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.

    4. SufferNSucceed on

      You think Xi would hang to death on a cross to save his people? “The glorious leader” is naturally jealous. 

    7. 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)
      *****
      > 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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    14. Zolo49 on

      According to Chinese Christianity, Mao sat on the toilet one day and gave virgin birth to Xi.

    15. 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.

    16. bck1999 on

      Here’s that religious oppression that US Christians think they are experiencing!

    18. 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.

    19. Due-Contact-366 on

      So is the idea that Mao’s delivery of Xi was a virgin birth?

    20. babbitts2ndbutthole on

      Mao gave birth to Xi without intercourse through the holy spirit?

    24. 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.

    25. vegetable_completed on

      Could be pretty subversive if Xisus is depicted crucified and Maory is in drag.

    26. FlimsyConclusion on

      Well that’s disgusting.

      But a classic case of dictators co-opting religion to control their people.

    30. Rathbane12 on

      So you’re telling me Winnie the Pooh had an immaculate conception?

    31. vrenejr on

      Didn’t expect the Chinese Jesus for 21 Jump Street to be this absurd.

    32. jmcunx on

      I wonder if Xi pictures are also being hung in mosques.

      That would be a huge religious violation for Islam.

    38. findingmike on

      Which one gets nailed to the cross and which one wears the dress?

    40. 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.

    41. 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”

    43. 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

    45. SauceHankRedemption on

      “They are not dictators…they are supreme beings and they do not have a butthole.”

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