Posted on 03/24/2023 7:14:45 PM PDT by marshmallow
In the mandator statement, they promise to educate their children to socialism and atheism.
A good Communist Party education starts from kindergarten, and it should necessarily include atheism. At the beginning of March, Christian parents from the Longwan District of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, sent to several human rights media pledges they are required to sign to have their children, aged 3 to 6, continue to attend kindergarten. The documents look genuine, and similar texts have been circulated previously in China.
The document is called a “Kindergarten Family Commitment Not to Believe in Religion” and should be signed by the parents, who should indicate the name of the children.
The parents promise to lead “civilized families” who “do not believe in religion, do not participate in any religious activities, do not teach religion to children.” Parents commit that they and their children will stay away from “Falun Gong of any other xie jiao,” avoid ‘feudal superstition,” and teach kindergarten children faith in science, socialism, and the Chinese Communist Party.
Campaigns for atheism may become more or less visible, but never subsided in China. Xi Jinping himself has repeatedly insisted that scientific atheism is an essential feature of Marxism, and popular culture is mobilized to inculcate this idea. The total prohibition of any religious education for Chinese children is part of these campaigns, and kindergartens are just another agency expected to enforce it.
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As a Christian, I don’t believe in Religion. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ my Saviour.
Does that include the religion of Climate Change?
Does it include Marist-Leninist-Maoist religions?
We had a Chinese girl from Wenzhou stay at our house a few years ago from an evangelical program through our church. She is now a kindergarten teacher there. I was never able to determine if she had become a Christian.
I am pretty sure they are covering what you believe too.
Me too! Amen 🙏🏻!!!!
The New Testament actually speaks very positively about religion:
Acts 26:5
They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.
1 Timothy 2:9-10
The women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion.
1 Timothy 3:16
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.
James 1:26
If any one thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is vain.
James 1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
When many people speak of "religion", what they usually mean is legalism. Those who follow true Christian religion believe in Our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, and worship him in spirit and truth.
Actually for protestants it’s another way to try and spit on Catholics.
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