Does China have the right idea when it comes to religion?
The historic relationship between Christianity and human rights is an ambiguous one. For hundreds of years the Christian Church actively promoted religious intolerance and persecuted those who failed to accept its moral values and customs. Many of these values and practices are today rejected as contrary to a human rights culture and moral decency.
1. “Abolish Christianity because of the evils done in the name of Christ!”
2. “Belief in God is an irrational thing.”
3. “Science has eliminated God.”
As China experienced an explosion in the number of religious believers, the government has grown wary of Christianity and Islam in particular.
Does China have the right idea, with their Unrelenting Efforts to Abolish Christianity. Clergy members from all of China's five state-sanctioned religious groups -- Buddhist Association of China, the Chinese Taoist Association, the Islamic Association of China, the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement, and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association -- will be subjected to rigorous monitoring and surveillance.
They have come to see the political potential of Christianity as a political force. China is correct in thinking this way, just look at the political power Christians have in the US. The new regulations will ban government-sanctioned churches from interfering in any concerns with education or the daily activities of citizens.
We need to do something like this in the US to eliminate in the power Christians have in our political system. Communism or Democracy, Christianity will destroy it, and there will be no stopping them, or reasoning with them, because they are on a mission for God.
Maybe China has the right idea, but feeding them to the lions would be just as affective.