Beijing Olympics bans Bible
Here. Should we just go ahead and boycott the whole Games? Yes.
Labels: Persecuted church
posted by Matt Friedeman at
5:21 PM
Monday, November 5, 2007
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Boycotting these games would send a message to the world that there is something more important than sports, even if trying to represent your country. I truly doubt that anybody in a position to make a decision on a boycott will have the conviction to make it happen. Pity.
I think the Chinese are taking a cue from the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages:
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The Council of Toulouse, which met in November of 1229, about the time of the crusade against the Albigensians, set up a special ecclesiastical tribunal, or court, known as the Inquisition (Lat. inquisitio, an inquiry), to search out and try heretics. Twenty of the forty-five articles decreed by the Council dealt with heretics and heresy. It ruled in part:
Canon 14. "We prohibit also that the laity should be permitted to have the books of the Old or New Testament; unless anyone from motive of devotion should wish to have the Psalter or the Breviary for divine offices or the hours of the blessed Virgin; but we most strictly forbid their having any translation of these books."
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What goes around comes around I guess.
To say the Chinese are taking a cue from the Catholic Church is absolutely ridiculous. They are following the playbook of Mao, Lenin, et al. that see the God of the Bible as the greatest threat to their power. God grants freedoms that these people cannot condone. They are interested only in oppressing those under them so that they (rulers) can continue their lifestyles. They realize that God wants all mankind to have the choice to freely choose or reject Him and opting to believe Him brings an inner peace and strengthens their will to stand up to oppression.
I am not defending the Inquisition or those that conducted it. I am far from being Catholic, but this comparison is ludicrous at best.
Chinese Communist/Catholic Church: Apples/Oranges
On the other hand, it is good to see you again Mr(s) ananymous!!
Just read that the Chinese are vehemently denying the charge of banning the Bible at the Olympics.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/11/8/worldupdates/2007-11-08T160316Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-303989-1&sec=Worldupdates
if you want to read for yourself.
Sorry I didn't get my point across Larry. Chinese Communist, Roman Catholic Church, Evangelical Protestants= Totalitarianism.
Liberal Christianity is much closer to the teachings of Jesus.
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