USCIRF report: China, two dozen other countries top religious freedom offenders list

[Bretton Garcia]

59. In China it was more recent too: till 1949.

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1) Attempts by partly religious, Christian forces to take over China went on until as recently as 1949.

2) China also has continued to have a lot more immediate trouble with specifically Islam, than America did. Because it is geographically much, much closer to the centers of militant and sometimes nuclear-armed Islam, it has always been at risk for Muslim incursions on the scale of a hundred thousand "911"s.

You'd think it would be hard to top religions going into a country, addicting it to opium, and then killing those who resisted. But in a nuclear age, it is possible for religions to do far worse than even that.

That's why the founders of America very firmly separated their new state, from religion. A separation that came far later to the rest of the world however.

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Marx by the way, thought that religion itself was kind of opium: "religion is the opiod of the masses." The theory is probably that religion in part tells us optimistic fairy tales, makes false promises of heaven, to make people feel better. So they won't rebel against their exploitative leaders.

So the connection between selling opium and peddling religion, is closer than some might think.