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China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls

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Re: China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls

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That’s... just evil. Even atheists generally support people’s freedom to read and believe as they please.

"Even atheists"? Are atheists pretty evil, but not quite this evil? Are atheists well-known for being anti-freedom? Why "even atheists"?

Re: China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls

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This is bad. I get that religion has taboos, but religion also has an influence on morals. Yes, there are ways to be a good moral person without the Bible, but are we really giving people agency and the ability to choose if they are sensored? Human rights are human rights and as a human I should have the right to obtain a Bible if I so chose and live the consequences there of.

Re: China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls

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The Heathens!

It's been spiraling down for a while now. I know quite a few Chinese who moved from China to the U.S. now, while they can. A couple of them are LGBT, where it was made clear they weren't welcome - even with PhD's in Chemical Engineering and Physics.

Re: China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls

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What are the Chinese government so scared of! They have complete control in a way not possible in the West, I can’t really foresee how the state would be overthrown by the people there?

They got that way, and keep it that way, by doing things like this.

Re: China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls

#8

That’s... just evil. Even atheists generally support people’s freedom to read and believe as they please.

As an atheist i can't even see why they would ban it. It's a mish mash of traditional views, fallacies , contradictions and stories. Studying it should teach you see all these things.

Re: China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls

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What are the Chinese government so scared of! They have complete control in a way not possible in the West, I can’t really foresee how the state would be overthrown by the people there?

Christian churches played a major role in the end of communism in East Germany.

Re: China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls

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That’s... just evil. Even atheists generally support people’s freedom to read and believe as they please.

"Even atheists"? Are atheists pretty evil, but not quite this evil? Are atheists well-known for being anti-freedom? Why "even atheists"?

I think they meant that it is evil; also atheiest-- people who do not believe in any religion, would not do such a thing.
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