I got a sense of déjà vu after reading this article from The Christian Post,
A communist textbook that's being used in Chinese schools falsifies the biblical account found in John 8:3–11. The textbook claims that Jesus murdered the woman who was found in adultery and said He, too, is a sinner.
The textbook, published by the government-run University of Electronic Science and Technology Press, states: “The crowd wanted to stone the woman to death as per their law. But Jesus said, ‘Let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone.’ Hearing this, they slipped away one by one. When the crowd disappeared, Jesus stoned the sinner to death, saying, ‘I too am a sinner. But if the law could only be executed by men without blemish, the law would be dead.’”
Blasphemy.
Not since the times of Hitler's Reich Bishop, has there been an attempt to re-write the Bible in order to further the ideology of a totalitarian regime, but that was not the déjà vu I was talking about.
You see, I have listened to so many revisionist priests and bishops give false interpretations that I could have sworn that one of them must be writing for the University of Electronic Science and Technology Press.
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That's awful. I think American Christians need to wake up to the extreme danger posed by the Chinese Communist Party. But perhaps they don't because, as you say, they've heard so many twisted interpretations from their preachers for so many years. The Reformers had the right idea when they urged everyone to actually READ the Scriptures.
ReplyDeleteThe Chi-coms are waging a war against any ideology that conflicts with their own. Americans who favor socialism do not agree that socialism leads to communism and that communism leads to totalitarianism and worship of the State.
DeleteMost Americans who say they favor socialism actually have little idea what it is, and no historical information on how it always devolves into totalitarianism.
DeleteSee this quotation, “What’s worthwhile to point out, first and last, is that Socialism is a tyranny; that it is inevitably, even avowedly and almost justifiably, a tyranny. It’s the pretense that government can prevent all injustice by being directly responsible for practically anything that happens.” - G.K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)
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