Posted on 07/12/2026 12:36:27 PM PDT by thegagline
When the power cut out and his signal dropped, TJ knew something was wrong.
Seconds later, the banging started on his front door. Terrified, he stood as still as possible with his wife and three-year-old daughter, hoping they wouldn’t be noticed.
But the Chinese police officers broke down the door, shoved his wife and child into a separate room and began to question TJ.
“They grabbed my clothes and grabbed my hands so I couldn’t move. I could hear my daughter crying so much in the room next door but I couldn’t go to her, I couldn’t hug my wife,” he told The Telegraph.
TJ knew what his family’s crime was: being Christian and worshipping a God that was not Xi Jinping. In China, following a church that is not state-controlled is punishable.
The Chinese leader is intensifying Beijing’s crackdown on Christians amid a wider purge of top officials, showing signs of an increasingly paranoid leader.
The country officially recognises five religions, including Protestantism and Catholicism, but this only extends to churches that are fully state-controlled, where congregation is expected to sing patriotic songs before every service and affix Mr Xi’s portrait above the pulpit. *** Under Mr Xi’s iron-tight grip, China has expanded its nationwide suppression of Christians during the last decade, arresting more than 10,000 people, according to Bob Fu, the founder of ChinaAid, a charity for victims of persecution in the country. *** Mr Xi’s ruthless campaign against these underground churches aims to ensure the survival of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and remove any threat to his power.
Mr Fu said: “It’s the emperor playing God. [Mr Xi] wants to be exclusive, he doesn’t want to have anything treated or worshipped more superior than him.” ***
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I have no doubt he was arrested for attending a house church. But part of this article is bunk.
“where congregation is expected to sing patriotic songs before every service and affix Mr Xi’s portrait above the pulpit. *** “
As of this Easter, when I WAS PERSONALLY IN WORSHIPING in a 3 Shelf church. This was not true.
There was no picture of Mao and Xi, there were Crosses over the pulpit. There were crosses on the building.
Once again. I was THERE.
This is what the outside looks like.
https://aroundus.com/p/6512786-christian-shenzhen-church
And they did not sing patriotic songs.
The only time they mentioned Xi’s name was when they prayed that he would come to Christ.
No one believes anything you say anymore.
If you quit posting, we will know the reason.
China needs a Pinochet.
Allegra?? Is that what AI is churning out now for names? Allergy meds?
“China needs a Pinochet.”
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China already has one.
One central theme of Christianity since the Reformation has been their constant claim of repression and victimization, regardless of where they are.
It could be some areas have more enforcement then others.
Rome had many believers in all strata of society and persecution could be severe but it wasn’t always consistent across the empire.
I’ve heard of similar stories before 2020. Xis photo on the wall, required.
In December 2019, I read an article about how the CCP was rewriting the Holy Bible to make it more CCP friendly. What was altered or changed I do not know, but I immediately commented to numerous people at the time that God promises a plague upon those who change his Holy Word.
For this reason I expected to see a plague arrive soon.
I didn’t have to wait long.
This is also the only reason I could offer anyone that Anthony Fauci’s GOF work with Eco Health Alliance in Wuhan China was accidentally released, unintentional.
China always has been brutal to Christians.
We grew up hearing the sad story of the murders of John and Betty Stam in the ‘30s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_John_and_Betty_Stam
Xi sounds like your typical liberal.
Two of the predictable three Ps of communism...
Power Struggles (real and imaginary), Paranoia, and Purges.
If you permit me an aside, and for some useful historical perspective, ask AI something along the lines of how many deaths under mao? You'll get something like...
Great Leap Forward (1958-1962):
This campaign aimed at rapid industrialization [think collectivization] led to widespread famine, with estimates of deaths ranging from 15 million to 38 million due to starvation and overwork.
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976):
This period saw political purges and social upheaval, contributing to an estimated 1.5 million to 3 million deaths.
“China already has one.”
China has a one-way helicopter ride giving anti-communist strongman in charge of the state? The hell you say.
You should see how easy they have it in Nigeria.
What are the chances that ‘Eeyore is Still’ would comment on a thread about Pooh worship?
They better not let my Tigger find them chillin’ round the Hundred Acre Hood with that mess.
Some sources say children are not allowed in church in China even if the frowned upon parents attend services. Heavy camera and audio surveillance of all churches. Have to display Xi and others as equals to any Christian altar or display of images or statues. Christians are shunned for promotions or investments available to others.
The children angle alone is powerful. They would see churches as foreign to their lives. Children would lack any feeling of closeness to a faith, would be even more likely to reject Christian beliefs when taught about evolution and mythical aspects of the Bible the Chinese promote in their altered and censored published Bibles.
I am reading a very interesting book titled “Evidence That Demands a Verdict”, and the chapter I am on is discussing the authenticity and reliability of the old and New Testament in the Bible.
It is utterly fascinating. One of the interesting stories about one of the manuscripts in question was how it had been given to the Tsar of Russia as a gift before the revolution in 1918. It was a critically important manuscript. They said that it had been sold by the Soviet Union to a group in England that raised the money to buy it from them.
This was interesting to me, because I am currently dictating a free, downloadable audiobook titled “The Naked Communist” by W Cleon Skousen (who is known to many Freepers primarily due to his “45 Communist Goals“ from this book that was read into the congressional record in 1963, which have been posted on this website innumerable times… Many times by me!
As soon as I heard that it was sold by the Soviets, his group that had raised money in England, I immediately wondered if it happened in 1933, because that was the time when Stalin survived coup attempts from multiple places by simply arresting everybody and lining them up and shooting them after they went through the famous show trials that the world saw. As immediately as this popped into my head, the author of this book on the authenticity of the Bible said that it was in 1933.
Because he then said at that timethat Stalin, having consolidated his power and eliminated his enemies, then began to crack down on churches and religion, sending priests and nuns to Gulags, and seizing Church properties and repurposing them.
To the Soviets, that priceless manuscript of the Bible had absolutely no value, and they sold it off for hard cash which they needed. I have no doubt of that.
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