This Will Not End Well For China
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 11 months ago
Via Insty, this ridiculous news from China.
China will rewrite the Bible and Quran to ‘reflect socialist values’ amid crackdown on the country’s religious groups, a report has revealed.
New editions must not contain any content that goes against the beliefs of the Communist Party, according to a top party official. Paragraphs deemed wrong by the censors will be amended or re-translated.
Though the Bible and Quran were not mentioned specifically, the party called for a ‘comprehensive evaluation of the existing religious classics aiming at contents which do not conform to the progress of the times’.
The order was given in November during a meeting held by the Committee for Ethnic and Religious Affairs of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which oversees the ethnic and religious matters in China.
What the Mohammedans think is irrelevant since the Qu’ran is false. But as for the Bible, this is serious business for China. They are about to step into forbidden territory, more forbidden than just about any other.
The apostle says this. “I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.”
Welcome the plagues, Chinese. You’re going to wish you hadn’t done this.
On December 26, 2019 at 8:45 am, Todd said:
All translations have omissions of truth at some level. The Chinese are at least admitting what they are doing, unlike other bible versions that act like they are reflecting the total, inspired word of God, when in fact they leave out inconvenient content that might cause the masses to question religious beliefs (as opposed to God’s instructions as written originally.)
On December 26, 2019 at 9:56 am, Fred said:
@Todd, What truths, specifically, are omitted, and which exact inconvenient content has been left out in the King James Version please?
On December 26, 2019 at 2:12 pm, scott s. said:
They would have to start with the Analects and Mencius.
Fortunately for Biblical study, westerners have access to many text comparison sites.
On December 26, 2019 at 4:07 pm, Heywood said:
Sounds like something the new Pope would wholeheartedly endorse.
On December 29, 2019 at 5:11 pm, Tigerstripe Sky said:
Commies? Bible? This won’t end well. Although you could say the third way melding of communism/capitalism (lite) is already achieved in China.
@Heywood, the first non-Euro pope in over 1000 years, maybe the Chinese curse of interesting times is upon us.