China Tears Down Church Buildings: "Freedom" Totalitarian Style

There is Christian liberty in communist China. You must register your activities with the government, and you are then at liberty to do whatever the government allows. This is exactly where America has arrived. The American government has confiscated and sold church buildings, torn down crosses and Ten Commandment monuments, forbade Bible reading and prayer in public schools, forbade teaching against homosexuality and evolution in government places, and in a hundred other ways harassed God’s people in the practice of their faith. And it is not President Obama’s fault. He is merely a popularly elected official who is doing what he promised to do. The root of America’s ills is the apostasy and compromise in the churches in general and in the pulpits in particular. The problem lies at the doorsteps of those who call themselves Christians, and only a revival will bring substantive change. The following is excerpted from “China Tears Down Church,” Breitbart.com, May 21, 2014: “China has responded to the fast-growing Christian population in Zhejiang province by destroying churches in bunches. The latest victims are the congregation of Xiaying Holy Love Christians at a ten-story megachurch. The Christian community said Communist officials ordered them to leave the premises immediately following a visiting politician’s orders. The politician was apparently offended by the size of the cross on the roof of the building. ‘They told us the cross was too shiny, too tall and too big. At first they asked us to put it on the wall. We refused. Now they have told us they will tear the church down,’ said a member of the church. Local sources said the last service at the church took place on May 11. ... ‘The demolition work has already started. I have seen churchgoers around here crying,’ said a local resident. According to the U.S. State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report on China, the government considers several Christian groups it does not officially recognize to be ‘evil cults.’ The only official Christian groups recognized by the State are the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, China Christian Council (Protestant), and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.”

(Friday Church News Notes, August 22, 2014,www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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