Chinese Police Dynamite Christian Megachurch

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Chinese Police Dynamite Christian Megachurch


By RUSSELL GOLDMANJAN. 12, 2018

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• removed their steeples and crosses as part of a campaign that reflects the Communist Party’s longstanding fear that Christianity, viewed as a Western philosophy, is a threat to the party’s authority.
  
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  The church in 2009. CreditAndy Wong/Associated Press
  Global Times, a state newspaper, described the building’s destruction as part of a “citywide campaign to remove illegal buildings,” and quoted an unidentified official as saying that the church had been “secretly” constructed without proper permits and was initially disguised as a warehouse.
  
  Members of the megachurch, however, have previously clashed with the authorities, including in 2009 when the police confiscated Bibles and imprisoned several of the congregation’s leaders.
  
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  On Tuesday, officers of the People’s Armed Police, a state paramilitary organization, detonated explosives in the church’s underground sanctuary and destroyed the rest of the building, according to ChinaAid, an American watchdog group that monitors religious freedom in China.
  
  “The repeated persecution of Golden Lampstand Church demonstrates that the Chinese government has no respect for religious freedom or human rights,” said Bob Fu, the group’s founder.
  
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  The authorities used dynamite and heavy machinery to raze the Protestant megachurch.CreditChinaAid, via Associated Press
  ChinaAid said that the building was built by the married evangelists Wang Xiaoguang and Yang Rongli with nearly $3 million in contributions from local Christians, but that it had never been registered with the authorities, a legal requirement.
  
  Officially, Chinese citizens are free to practice the religion of their choice, but the government tightly controls spiritual life, and in some cases bans certain groups, like Falun Gong.
  
  On Dec. 27, the authorities also demolished a Catholic church in Shaanxi Province, southwest of Shanxi Province, destroying an altar and confiscating vestments, according to ChinaAid.
  
  More than 60 million Christians live in China, at least half of whom worship in unregistered churches.
  

 

[Maarkhoor]

Their country their rules....

 

[ARMalik]

Good decision by China. The West has used religion as a tool of destabilization.

 

[beijingwalker]

Good decision by China. The West has used religion as a tool of destabilization.

The pain was so harsh and the memory is still fresh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

 

[scope]

Thank you, Jezuz!

 

[Jlaw]

Why didn't all might omnipotent God stop the Chinese from destroying the church

Is God real?

 

[ARMalik]

Why didn't all might omnipotent God stop the Chinese from destroying the church

Is God real?

Why would God defend a religion which has been twisted and turned by every tom, dick and harry, and by every christian and Jewish retarded leader for at least a couple of millennium?

 

[beijingwalker]

Most Chinese are atheists like me, we don't care about religions as long as they don't disrupt our social orders. This church was destroyed for a reason I believe.

 

[Jlaw]

Why would God defend a religion which has been twisted and turned by every tom, dick and harry, and by every christian and Jewish retarded leader for at least a couple of millennium?

God is playing all sides. Before Iraq invasion Bush said God is on Americans side. Hussain said God is on his side.

 

[Dungeness]

God is playing all sides. Before Iraq invasion Bush said God is on Americans side. Hussain said God is on his side.

They have different gods. Come to think about it, why didn't they let their gods to fight with each other instead? That would have saved a million lives.

 

[I.R.A]

If it was an illegal building constructed without permit then fine ....... otherwise if it was to put ban on religious people and restrict their religious freedom ... not fine.

 

[Jlaw]

They have different gods. Come to think about it, why didn't they let their gods to fight with each other instead?

Well regardless, the omnipotent God should have threw some lightning bolts at the Chinese police or at least make the dynamite not work....but look like Christian God is too weak or too fake. Sometimes I wonder what's inside the minds of idiots.

 

[I.R.A]

They have different gods. Come to think about it, why didn't they let their gods to fight with each other instead? That would have saved a million lives.

There are no different Gods and God doesn't get involved in our petty human matters ........ HE is lawful and unlike may be Chinese, HE doesn't go around punishing people for having different belief or being an Atheist.

 

[Dungeness]

Well regardless, the omnipotent God should have threw some lightning bolts at the Chinese police or at least make the dynamite not work....but look like Christian God is too weak or too fake. Sometimes I wonder what's inside the minds of idiots.

There is a blind faith in them, but the rationality is for sure missing. That's why "critical thinking" ability is so crucial to social development.

There are no different Gods and God doesn't get involved in our petty human matters ........ HE is lawful and unlike may be Chinese, HE doesn't go around punishing people for having different belief or being an Atheist.

So basically, HE is not doing anything.

 

[beijingwalker]

So basically, HE is not doing anything.

I want that job.