Thursday, June 11, 2020

THERE IS NO NEW THING UNDER THE SUN

Been there, done that, China.  They're called Anglicans.

As the Chinese coronavirus distracts the world, the Chinese Communist Party has ratcheted up its crackdown on religious freedom, and sources say President Xi Jinping is working on rewriting the Bible itself to “create a new version of Christianity shorn of its transcendent visions and values.”

Xi Lian, a professor at Duke University Divinity School, told The Wall Street Journal‘s Matthew Taylor King that Beijing doesn’t just want to repress religion — the Chinese Communist Party wants to transform it.

Lian said Beijing wants to “drain Christianity of its spirit.” China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported last year that Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang had presided over a meeting of so-called scholars and “religious people from the grassroots level” to discuss “making accurate and authoritative interpretations of classical doctrines to keep pace with the times.”

You can see how well that turned out.  I'm sure that Dr. Williams, Justin Welby, Mrs. Schori, Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Organization or any number of other individuals or groups would be easily available if you need consulting work about how to suck the life out of Christianity.

5 comments:

Dale Matson said...

Actually, any modern church would qualify as consultants to China.

William Tighe said...

This posting recalls to my mind the idea expressed by the Rev'd Gordon Reid, sometime rector of St. Clement's, Philadelphia (a favorer of WO and of homosexual pseudogamy, someone who hired a man "married" to another man as his Curate at St. Clement's), that the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion in general, ought to cultivate relations with the public (or "Patriotic," i.e., schismatic) Catholic Church in China in order to wean it away from popery and into the Anglican Communion where it belonged. This was the link to his posting on that subject:

http://reidandwrite.com/?p=1702

but the blog appears to have disappeared as I get from it the response "Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress," the meaning of which I do not understand.

Katherine said...

Dr. Tighe, instead it has been left to Pope Francis to cultivate relations with the Communist-run Catholic Church in China. Sad.

An MD Teacher said...

Very sad. Out of all the (many) things Pope Frank has done, the situation in China is the most infuriating one, although there is no surprise, since Commies - birds of a feather and all that.

Christopher Johnson said...

Yup. Fran The Man is going to have a lot to answer for.