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2019-12-26 China-Japan-Koreas

China to rewrite Quran, Bible to fit socialist values

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Posted by 3dc 2019-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Good luck, China!

Hmm. Having a hard time psyching myself up to bet against them on this.

Posted by Mad Eye Gray4250 2019-12-26 01:26|| 2019-12-26 01:26|| Front Page Top

Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2019-12-26 02:07|| 2019-12-26 02:07|| Front Page Top

#3 A society which punishes people for "transfobia" shouldn't criticize.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-26 02:35|| 2019-12-26 02:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't have any problem at all with the Koran here, however the Bible is going to be a tough fit. What they seem to doing is, in their minds, negating the malevolence from malevolent cultures, so that citizens are not harmed, including monetarily. Western civilization should take a good look at this.

In this case malevolent cultures could be divided into a) violent ones that want to pillage the planet, and b) other invaders, to whom I'd put to the Australian test of whether you bring in significant value, or not.

Regarding the first paragraph of Velina's tweet, Christianity seems to have a bigger sway in the south, more than around Moscow and Petersburg. Just reflections from a dolmen site that I worked on in 2000 outside Gelendzhik, and an earlier train trip in 1970.

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Posted by Fairbanks 2019-12-26 03:00|| 2019-12-26 03:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Not a sparrow falls to the ground without Pooh's knowledge.

For Pooh so loved the Chinese people that he sent his only son to employ them for $3 a day, with morning and evening bio breaks.

I shall dwell in the House of the Local Party Leader-- with an option to buy.

For he is the just one - just one, silly, no more, and keep your greedy little hands to yourself.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-26 03:33|| 2019-12-26 03:33|| Front Page Top

#6 In my opinion they won't find anything needs changing much in the Bible. Maybe they'll do away with parts of the OT that don't relate to their CPC sensibilities, but nothing that changes the way a christian should live.

I think a true christian makes for the most model citizen in any political set up. Except of course the way the rabid western liberals want to run things. I have friends in China who are christian along the lines of the first church, and they are not complaining. There are simple rules. You can't run a church with a self-appointed pastor it seems. If you want to, your pastor has to pass a State examination. You need a license to congregate, and it's easily expedited with a modest bribe. You can't baptize in public places and rivers or the sea, you need your own pool. You can worship only under the decibel level below 'nuisance'. You need to have a rule book or constitution approved by an inspector. I've heard as soon as you tell them your 'sect' is unaffiliated to the Roman Catholic Church, or any of the major protestant denominations; that you don't recognize papal authority or some far off transcontinental bishoprick - they begin to see you as 'acceptable', harmless. I think that's good enough.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-26 03:43|| 2019-12-26 03:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, the Chinese authorities have a reason to be suspicious about "Christianity", a little thing called the Taiping Rebellion. Total dead: 10–30 million dead. The West wouldn't see numbers like that till the 20th Century.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-26 06:28|| 2019-12-26 06:28|| Front Page Top

#8 ^😊

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-26 06:42|| 2019-12-26 06:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Predictable: You may have no other religion before Communism (that is, the current Warlord/Robber Baron version)

Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-26 08:18|| 2019-12-26 08:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Haters of Christianity still get a warm feeling in their crotches any time the story of Jefferson cutting and pasting his Bible (to make it more to his liking) come up.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-26 09:10|| 2019-12-26 09:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Go Forth and multiply (with one child between you)
Thou shalt not murder (except in gulags and when organs are needed)

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-26 15:50|| 2019-12-26 15:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Am glad they acknowledge that the Bible would need a rewrite to accomplish this goal.

Posted by Iblis 2019-12-26 19:40|| 2019-12-26 19:40|| Front Page Top

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