CHINESE REWRITE BIBLE TO MAKE IT MORE COMMUNIST
SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/18/chinese-rewrite-bible-to-make-it-more-communist/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
[Lifesite News] BEIJING, January 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – As it arrests Christian pastors, vandalizes or destroys Christians churches, and demands control over Christian leaders, the Chinese government is also altering Christian scriptures to suit its tastes.
In 2018, the Communist Chinese government embarked on a five-year plan to make Christianity more compatible to what it sees as authentic Chinese and socialist values. Stephen Mosher, author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream Is the New Threat to World Order, told LifeSiteNews that altering the Bible is part of this plan.
“It is part of a larger effort in China to sinicize all religions, at the same time bringing them into line with Communist ideology,” Mosher said by email.
“So far, it is (1) no longer possible to buy a copy of the Bible online [in China], (2) existing copies of the Bible are being confiscated whenever the authorities come across them, and (3) there are new versions of all sacred texts – Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, etc. – that reinforce Communist ideology in the making,” he continued.
Bob Fu, a Chinese Evangelical pastor, testified at the U.S. House of Representatives last year that one of the ways China hopes to make Christianity more “Chinese” is to retranslate the Old Testament and write new commentaries on the New Testament.
“The plan made it clear that ‘Sinicization of Christianity’ means to change ‘Christianity in China’ into ‘Chinese Christianity,'” Fu told members of the House Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations last September.
The scheme emphasizes that “the heart and soul of Christianity’s Sinicization is to Sincize the Christian theology” and wants even to “re-translate the Bible or re-write biblical commentaries.”
Fu said a retranslation would involve a summary of the Old Testament with Buddhist scripture and Confucian teachings.
The pastor told The Christian Post that there are official guidelines “that the new Bible should not look westernized and [should look] Chinese and reflect Chinese ethics of Confucianism and socialism.”
“The Old Testament will be messed up. The New Testament will have new commentaries to interpret it.”
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[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Dorothy Cummings McLean and first published at LifeSiteNews. This HT is not an endorsement of LifeSiteNews]
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CHRISTIANITY TO BE MIXED WITH BUDDHISM TO MAKE IT "CHINESE CHRISTIANITY", AGREEABLE TO THE COMMUNIST STATE
EXCERPT: "The plan, finalized at a meeting this March, proposes “cultivating and implementing the socialist core values” and will be supervised by the national religious affairs bureau. “Every province, autonomous region and municipality’s TSPM and CCC seminaries and churches will cooperate with it,” according to Fu."
AND: https://bitterwinter.org/you-shall-have-no-god-before-marx/
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AND: https://bitterwinter.org/you-shall-have-no-god-before-marx/
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China Rewrites Bible
Propaganda materials declaring the Communist Party members cannot believe in religion, issued by a school in northeastern China.
A public institution demands its Party members sign their names after watching a “Party micro-lecture,” to make sure that all have been acquainted with the atheist propaganda.
Propaganda material distributed to teachers in a school of northeastern China quotes Xi Jinping’s call for party members “to be unyielding Marxist atheists, strictly abide by regulations of the Party Constitution, strengthen their conviction and ideals, keep the Party’s goal firmly in mind, and not seek for values and beliefs from religions.”
A public institution demands its Party members sign their names after watching a “Party micro-lecture,” to make sure that all have been acquainted with the atheist propaganda.
Propaganda material distributed to teachers in a school of northeastern China quotes Xi Jinping’s call for party members “to be unyielding Marxist atheists, strictly abide by regulations of the Party Constitution, strengthen their conviction and ideals, keep the Party’s goal firmly in mind, and not seek for values and beliefs from religions.”
