Posted on 10/27/2022 6:24:40 PM PDT by marshmallow
A Three-Self Church report to the 20th Congress explains that the new concept of “Sinicization” of Christianity means accepting the “Marxist view of religion.”
The 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party opens on October 16, and the government-controlled Protestant Three-Self Church contributes to it with a report on how Christianity is being “Sinicized.” Published on October 8, the report is signed by Pastor Xu Xiaohong, the Chairman of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee.
The document reviews the efforts made by the Three-Self Church to accomplish the “Sinicization” of Chinese Protestant Christianity, and proposes a road map for the future. Its main theoretical point is an explanation of how the concept of “Sinicization” has evolved throughout the history of the People’s Republic.
In the last few years, the Three-Self Church has lionized the figure of theologian Zhao Zichen (known in the West as T.C. Chao, 1888–1979), as the main founder of the doctrine of Sinicization. The Exhibition Hall on Zhao in Deqing county, Zhejiang province, has been solemnly visited this year by the Three-Self Church’s main leaders, and pilgrimages continue to be organized there.
Zhao is celebrate for his anti-missionary and anti-American stance, yet we are now told that the doctrine of Sinicization today has evolved with respect to his writings. Zhao’s idea that Christianity in China should be separated as much as possible from foreign and Western influences and styles is proclaimed as still valid. If anything, it needs more radical implementation. For instance, Xu praises the work done in Sinicizing the architecture of Christian churches, which in practice means destroying or downsizing crosses and other specific Christian features and making places of worship more similar in their external appearance to secular halls and in some cases to Taoist or Buddhist temples.
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Like they are here.
Atheism ia a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism.That is a quote from the introduction to the book by Lenin titled Religion.
So when will Joel and Victoria Osteen going to guest pastor? How about papa Frank? He certainly likes Marxist.
something else for those cheering on the CCP to rise and grow stronger here to bring “multipolarity” to celebrate.
Didn’t the Pope say the same?
Just like Democrats.
Yep, Bergoglio is on the same page as these folks. In a big way.
Pretty much the same as the Democrats at their national conventions.
Christians told they should become more like the pope
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