Christians face harassment and disruption in Beijing crackdown on religion, US government agency reports

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.

  • havocpants@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    1 month ago

    Except there’s no contemporaneous record of jesus either existing or being executed by the Romans, despite them keeping detailed records of people they did execute.

    • Geobloke@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      It’s a pretty high bar to expect bureaucratic details of people executed in a far flung part of the empire to survive 2000 years

    • GiveMemes@jlai.luEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      That’d be true for the vast majority of figures from that time. Also I’d like to see evidence for your implied claim that apparently the Romans kept vast swathes of paperwork concerning executions and that the vast majority of it was preserved until this day.