“We will rewrite the Bible” Chinese government wants to translate the Scriptures into communism
The Chinese government is supervising a five-year plan to make Christianity more compatible with socialism in which there will be a “rewrite” of the Bible, a prominent religious freedom activist has told Congress.
The Rev. Bob Fu, a former Chinese house church leader who immigrated to the United States in 1997 and founded the persecution watchdog organization China Aid, provided great detail during a House hearing Thursday about a plan enacted by leading state-sanctioned denominations in China to “Sincize” Christianity.
These campaigns of attacks on the Religious freedom in China has really reached to the worst level, meaning the destruction of churches throughout the territory. Fu said that while over 4,000 to 6,000 crosses of state-sanctioned churches have been torn down, churches that have crucifixes on the inside must “put up pictures of Chairman Mao and Chairman Xi [Jinping] on both sides of the cross.”
“In the beginning of every church worship service, the choir of the church has to sing a few communist revolutionary songs praising the communist party before they can sing the worship songs,” he detailed.
There have been reports that state officials have gone door-to-door trying to get Christians to sign a statement renouncing their Christian faith.
The new guidelines to which the people must adapt to is the new socialist society, the inspection of religious departments and the guidance of a government official. This plan to propose cultivating and implementing socialist values will be overseen by the national bureau of religious affairs and each province, autonomous region and municipality, as well as the churches will cooperate to implement it.
