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China Bans Christmas And This Happens To Google Traffic
Very quietly and under the radar, authorities in China have cracked down on Christmas celebrations in China, deeming them "Western spiritual pollution." As CNMNews reports, for several years, a virtual rush to convert to Christianity has been underway in China, both in its Protestant and Catholic versions. The Department of Education this year issued a directive to limit Christianity’s appeal to young people, banning Christmas events and celebrations in schools and kindergartens, deemed “kitsch” and “un-Chinese”. The crackdown has also been spreading to universities and colleges nationwide. The result is nowhere more evident than in Google's traffic in China...
For several years, a virtual rush to convert to Christianity has been underway in China, both in its Protestant and Catholic versions.
According to some reports, some 3,000 people, mostly young people, were baptised on Christmas night, in Beijing alone.
In Wenzhou, the local Department of Education has issued a directive to limit Christianity's appeal to young people, banning Christmas events and celebrations in schools and kindergartens, deemed "kitsch" and "un-Chinese". The crackdown has also been spreading to universities and colleges nationwide.
Since China opened up to foreign trade, Christmas trees, Santa Clauses, greeting cards and even crèches have spread widely. Although 25 December is a working day, thousands of young non-Christians attend church services in order to understand what Christmas is about. Eventually, many of them eventually sign up for the catechumenate and being baptised.
According to a survey conducted a few years ago at universities in Beijing and Shanghai, at least 60 per cent of young people are interested in learning about Christianity.
The directive issued by Wenzhou authorities is part of a wider pattern, which includes a campaign to tear down crosses and religious buildings launched in Zhejiang by the local party secretary whose primary purpose is to reduce the influence of Christianity in society, deemed "Western spiritual pollution."
Ironically, Zhejiang - in particular the city of Yiwu - lives off Christmas. About 60 per cent of all Christmas decorations sold in the world are manufactured in the province.
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China is best at killing it's own citizens. One despostic regime after another for thousands of years.
Nothing has changed.
Grimaldus
.....Except it now has the capacity to murder many milions/billions of non-citizens as well as its own citizens......with no moral inhibitions.......And we are financing them!
Are we insane, or just stupid?
ChiComs Sabotaged by Santa!
'St Nick knocks out Commie Party Rule'
Commies should use Santa as a mascot. He's already dressed in red, and his sled is full of gifts for the world. They could re-write their geography curriculum to show that the north pole is in the middle of China, which would explain why China is the world's workshop.
Heck, take it farther, make all the little elves look like china-men - working for the big fat drunk white Santa of the west.
Google fits right in with China's PLA. Google makes for good little commies.
They ban non-commie approved Youtube videos all the time.
Wow, that's almost as bad as the US liberals and their crackdown on the practice of Christianity in the US. Happy Solstice, Namaste, Gaia Lives, and Kwanza Rules. Anything goes except Merry Christmas.
Well, Christmas was Xinanity's attempt to Xianize the Winter Solstice and associated Celebrations. Dec 25th was the Solstice on the Julian Calendar - used in Europe until its gradual shift to the Christian Gregorian Calendar. Even the Xian "Anno Domino" (AD) date was a Fabrication based on Arbitrary Assumptions by a Monk in the 6thCE who backdated the beginiing of "AD" to its location in Human Chronology.
The beginning of AD was conveniently backdated far enough to "pre-existently cover" the "pre-Xian" Cults and Fables (e.g., Chrestus Movement) that are incorporated into Xianity by Constantine in the 4thCE. Nothing could be done about the pre-existent religions like Mithraism and the worship of Dionysus, etc.; but their power/influence were looted by Xians as they gained political influence to the point Xianity became the "State Religion".
I used to be a Xian from the Protestant Camp - at least the Protestant Reformation was an attempt to uphold the Ethical Values touted by the Jewish and Xian Bibles - instead of by what some Priest would forgive/absolve.
Good for CHN. They're trying to press Christmas more heavily in JPN in the Media and Metro Events, which is utter Bullshit for a Country with less than 1/2 of 1% as Xians. Desperation for the Ignorance-driven Demagogues of the Asia Pivot.
Truth and Reason.
Eat it, Downvoters...
First they came for Falun Gong.. but I did not speak out because I was not a Falun Gong
Next they came for the Christians.. etc
As I always say same shit different shape. In the future, at least as long as I am constrained by time and space within satan's realm, the new addendum to that short apropos phrase will be different perspective.
Worship of the state appeals to the godless because they have delusions of grandeur about being gods themselves. Just ask the kitsch. They have no moral compass and even less ethical values. They will never be redeemed and therefore they are stuck here forever on this planet. Trapped under ice, in the bottomless pit, locked behind the gate, or another brick in the wall always hoping to break on through to the other side. So many interesting lyrical similies. So their job is to corrupt you, sway you and entice you to staying here for eternity to keep them company
As anyone literate in fictitious non-fiction historical publications can quote. Do not mistake my jocular parody as mocking. You're only hope to escape is to forsake all on Earth. Not an easy task to accomplish ever for the most stouthearted of you girly bitches
But I have read of at least one entity that allegedly accomplished this feat successfully. Unfortunately these newly trapped poor souls may never hear about it now that another brick has been put into the great wall of satan
Falun Gong is a horrible destructive cult. First they separate the victim from their family, then they separate him from his money. If you ever had a family member taken by this malicious gang of psychos, you wouldn't be talking kindly about them. They are hated in China, and they are hated in New York and Boston by ex-pat Chinese.
I don't know Falung Gong, but the pattern looks similar to that of Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the like.
A new variant hereabouts: Word of Faith.
Cultists are dangerous to liberty minded people.
Whether that cult be a governmental philosophy or a religious philosophy. The end result is you turn over your possessions and your power of your own life to a master. A 'better'.
I say "Fuck that shit".
Stay the fuck out of my wallet, my head, and my life you statist bitchez, or feel my wrath.
Sorta like Scientology!
.....And the American Statists!
All Missionaries should be put to DEATH.
The Roman Empire tried to do this, but with little success...
Easy Mr., a tad harsh. All missionaries should have their passports revoked. Spend thousands to travel across the world and "help" a community when the one you live in could use the capital and resources. And by "help" they mean convert and we give you a school.
western practice of christmas and new year festivities are based on the ancient roman celebration of saturnalia:
Saturnalia was an ancient Roman festival in honor of the deity Saturn, held on the 17th of December of the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities through to the 23rd of December. The holiday was celebrated with a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn, in the Roman Forum, and a public banquet, followed by private gift-giving, continual partying, and a carnival atmosphere that overturned Roman social norms: gambling was permitted, and masters provided table service for their slaves.[1] The poetCatullus called it "the best of days."[2]
In Roman mythology, Saturn was an agricultural deity who was said to have reigned over the world in the Golden Age, when humans enjoyed the spontaneous bounty of the earth without labor in a state of social egalitarianism. The revelries of Saturnalia were supposed to reflect the conditions of the lost mythical age, not all of them desirable. The Greek equivalent was theKronia.[3]
Although probably the best-known Roman holiday, Saturnalia as a whole is not described from beginning to end in any single ancient source. Modern understanding of the festival is pieced together from several accounts dealing with various aspects.[4]The Saturnalia was the dramatic setting of the multivolume work of that name by Macrobius, a Latin writer from late antiquity who is the major source for information about the holiday. In one of the interpretations in Macrobius's work, Saturnalia is a festival of light leading to the winter solstice, with the abundant presence of candles symbolizing the quest for knowledge and truth.[5] The renewal of light and the coming of the new year was celebrated in the later Roman Empire at the Dies Natalis of Sol Invictus, the "Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun," on December 25.[6]
The popularity of Saturnalia continued into the third and fourth centuries AD, and as the Roman Empire came under Christian rule, some of its customs have influenced the seasonal celebrations surrounding Christmas and the New Year.[7]
Well, if Christmas doesn't work out for them, there's always FESTIVUS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8g4Ztf7hIM
I'll always love that one. The "Airing of Grievences" and "Feats of Strength" are so true.
Chinese suckers for spiritual/ghosty/magicy shit.
Sorta like cosmetics and women.
Porn and men.
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falun christianity is band just like gong. No public work outs allowed unless in the name of CPC
Christmas came early for Putin this year...
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/china-to-the-rescue-russia-agrees-to-...
Well Buddhism is inherintly Chinese and look what they did to the Dahli Lama. The chinese government simply cant stand anything coming before them.
Christmas has become a pretty gross commercial holiday. Call me the Grinch, but I don't really like what christmas has become in much the same way I don't like what America has become.
On the commercialization of christmas... I was in Japan in early November a couple of years ago and they had TONS of christmas decorations up already in all the malls and department stores. Early November! Keep in mind that Japan is largely Buddhist/Shinto-Buddhist and christians are a very, very small minority.
Personally, I'm not religious and lean towards atheist/agnostic. But growing up in the US, christmas was always a pleasant time to spend with family. Some of my best childhood memories are from the holidays. I hardly recognize what this frenzy called christmas is even about anymore.
An agnostic is an atheist in denial. First 28 years religous, past 7 not. For me it was another system of control and it was a relief to renounce. To be religous is to ignore history and reality.
a ban on christmas in china??? I was in mainland china and Hong Kong just 2 weeks before christmas. If their trying to ban christmas, they are a little late... both mainland and Hong Kong looked about like any location in the USA... christmas stuff everywhere you look.
And the 25th there, though not a national holiday, is a holiday for most businesses there.