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rug

(82,333 posts) Mon Dec 16, 2013, 07:23 PM Dec 2013

The Christian Underground In 'Atheist' China

Officially, China is an atheist country but only because the Chinese Communist Government is an atheist institution.

11:45am UK, Monday 16 December 2013
Mark Stone
China Correspondent

Religion in China is complicated for those trying to practice it - and complicated to explain, too.

Officially, the People's Republic of China is an atheist country but only because the Chinese Communist Government is an atheist institution.

Chairman Mao, whose revolution brought the Communists to power in 1949, described religion as "poison".

Attempts were made through his Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s to eradicate all religions.

http://news.sky.com/story/1182991/the-christian-underground-in-atheist-china

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The Christian Underground In 'Atheist' China (Original Post) rug Dec 2013 OP

The more I read about China walkingman Dec 2013 #1

Would you trade that for state-controlled authoritarian capitalism? rug Dec 2013 #2

Chairman Mao ... described religion as "poison". Jim__ Dec 2013 #3

Hmmm, let me think . . . something, something, Iraq . . .. something, something poison . . . . rug Dec 2013 #4

walkingman

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1. The more I read about China

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Mon Dec 16, 2013, 08:07 PM

Dec 2013

the more I tend to agree with some of their philosophies. I think I would like living in a country where religious dogma is not part of the political structure.