Posted on 05/14/2023 6:33:48 PM PDT by marshmallow
The annual inspection of churches and license renewal are seen as measures to 'governing religion according to the law'
Leaders of two pro-government Christian groups in southeast China organized a conference with the aim to strengthen the re-evaluation of state-controlled churches and control of religious clergy on annual inspection and license renewal for the clergy.
The conference in mid-April by the Three-Self Patriotic Movement and Fujian Christian Council at the Fujian Theological Seminary insisted on efforts and activities by church groups and clergy based on social principles of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and direction for religious groups by President Xi Jinping, ChinaAid reported on May 10.
Zhang Huarong, a professor at Fujian Normal University, delivered a lecture on “The Generational Implications and Contemporary Values of Chinese Path to Modernization.”
He also shared his experience studying the report of the 20th National Congress of the CCP last October.
Pastor Zhang Jiyou, deputy president of the Fujian Christian Council, pointed out that the license renewal process is “a significant reflection of the governing religion according to the law.”
“It is a crucial measure for the information management of religious clergy and an important channel for the Fujian Churches to strengthen its self-management,” he said.
He asked the clergy of the churches to take the opportunity of this license renewal work to be strict with themselves.
State-sanctioned groups should implement every regulation conscientiously and govern their churches strictly, he urged.
In recent years, government-controlled Christian groups across China have organized annual inspections, reviews, and license renewals of religious clergy, ChinaAid reported.
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Coming to America.
Kind of already here. Covid set the stage for church capitulation to the almighty State
Hong Kong ids a perfect example.
Pope Francis will give them what they want
“Covid set the stage for church capitulation to the almighty State”
I live in Washington State and they set up a rule that faith based organizations were allowed to meet during the pandemic with very few hurdles. But no one told anyone about it.
There was a decision to allow up to 100 people, families six feet apart, to worship and do some other listed things that went into effect early May 2021. Well kept secret.
wy69
What part of The State of Washington allows 100 people spaced Sox feet apart to meet in church is listed in the following:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
The church failed the body of Christ and their mission.
Maybe the state of Washington has not heard of the Constitution. If so, it’s time somebody enlightened them, doing it the hard way if necessary.
Obama/biden may try this in the US, but they will get their unholy asses kicked!
Makes me think of Thomas Becket. And Thomas More.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”
You’re speaking of a real see saw here as I don’t disagree with you, I’m saying what it was versus what it could have been. About half the states shut down churches in a formal atmosphere during the pandemic whether right or wrong. It was a game of semantics rather than the privileges of the citizens and their ability to make up their own minds concerning their wishes and safety.
Unfortunately the religious community didn’t really press the issue even though they had laws on their sides, working within the system, because they bought into the fear presentation the media supplied to the governments. The government got away with it and the community failed in their beliefs when they got “bluffed.”
wy69
The church should have fought back. I live near Baltimore. There were a handful that refused to cave in. They received some sternly worded letters and nothing else, yet the vast majority, including mine were too worried about their 501C3 status (One of the elders at my church told me that to my face, thereby losing my respect permanently)
Eric Metaxis wrote an incredible book entitled Letter to the American Church in which he compares the American church in the current culture to the Church in Germany as they capitulated to the Nazi’s as Hitler was coming to power.
In general, the church is managed by weak men who are more interested in playing church than being the Church.
“...managed by weak men...”
The government has been methodically re-arranging the way the citizens think in the US for many years.
Methodically is defined as arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order. And that order is many times not anywhere near what the founders wanted or the country has morphed into. Uncle Sugar is expecting kumbaya and they are getting people shot, stabbed, robbed, beaten, raped, and run over. Taught them a lot didn’t they?
When you take animals and change their purpose to them in life, they either rebel or die. Take a fish out of water, put black bears in the Sahara. Neither can live in that atmosphere which is why there are no bears in Africa and few fish on dry land. If you take man, who is also an animal, and take away his/her possibility of improvement or even staying the same, and they will fight you or lay down and slowly die. This is what we have today. So the government perpetrates it, and no improvement is noted. Man has been tamed or invited to die. That is what man believes. Stupid, ain’t it?
wy69
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