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3-3-2007 11:14 PM
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enbar says:
On the resurgence of religion in modern-day China. Religious practice (of the five "authorized" faiths: Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Protestantism and Islam) is increasingly public, though still subject to draconian restrictions and limitations.
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3-4-2007 4:15 PM
RecordSage
you forgot to mention the main religion there - communism.
3-5-2007 5:02 PM
karstenharder
RecordSage has got it all wrong - the main religion is *money*. Also superstition takes its toll. Actually, I think the man was right on this one: religion is opium for the people. But he had no right to impose this truth on everybody else.
3-5-2007 6:17 PM
RecordSage
No, I don't think I got it wrong... not in that particular country - I think they're much closer to the religion of 'communism' than religion of 'money'. Other countries - you're certainly right, but China, N. Korea and such - I think you're the one that's mistaken.
3-5-2007 8:18 PM
enbar
RS i didn't realize you'd lived in China. How long were you there?
3-5-2007 9:32 PM
RecordSage
I lived in USSR and that's close enough. Same gods, almost same uniforms, same tactics and same ambitions.
3-5-2007 10:56 PM
enbar
Wow. The USSR and the PRC the same? Tell that to a Chinese.
3-6-2007 12:06 AM
RecordSage
Which Chinese? The ones that live here or the one's that marched on Tianamen Square?
3-7-2007 6:54 PM
enbar
Pretty much any Chinese, is my impression. Tell them they're more or less the same as Russia, and you'll have given them a moral insult.
3-7-2007 6:55 PM
enbar
That's "mortal," not "moral," sorry.
3-7-2007 11:49 PM
RecordSage
That doesn't mean their regime is much different than the one that was in USSR.
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