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Olde Tyme Religion

Going to the Beijing Olympics? Dont take your Bible.

2007-11-05

ht:hotair

Bible Banned at Beijing Olympics

Have you seen this in the mainstream media? I didn't think so:

Organizes of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing have published a list of "prohibited objects" in the Olympic village where athletes will stay. To the surprise of many, Bibles are among the objects that will not be allowed
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To think just a few weeks ago ChiCom bureauweenies were purring that they would offer religious services for foreigners at the Olympics. Services may have to be conducted without benefit of Bibles. Not that you need a Bible to worship the only god recognized by the Chinese regime or our media: Government Power.

There are some 10 million Catholics in China, divided between an "underground" church loyal to the Holy See and the state-approved church that respects the Pope as a spiritual figurehead but rejects effective papal control.

So are they going to ban the Koran as well? No.

But it seems that the bible ban is limited only to those staying in the Olympic Village. The official website of the Beijing Olympics clearly states that each visiting foreigner is recommended to take no more than one Bible into China.

Posted by:Icerigger

#5 Put a green Koranic cover on your bibles & walk right into the People's Paradise, no problem. The guards won't know the difference anyway.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-11-05 23:03

#4 Ice - does Poland come to mind?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-11-05 20:43

#3 Understood Zoid but I wonder then what the Chicoms are worried about.

Posted by: Icerigger 2007-11-05 20:42

#2 Gallaleo comes instantly to mind, "It still turns".

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-11-05 19:47

#1 Actually, few Roman Catholics own a Bible, and if they do it is the "Douay" version. The Vatican assigns to clerics the role of transmitters of church doctrine. The faithful are deemed unqualified to understand the New Testament. As a former RC, who attended hundreds of hours of catechism instruction, be aware that at NO time did a priest either read from a Bible or ask indoctrinates to read from same. In fact, Bibles were not present in class. Having a monopoly on understanding, allowed the RC leadership to peddle "indulgences" for centuries.

Loyola wrote: "Thou shalt be prepared to believe that that which is black is actually white, should the church so dictate." He wrote that in contempt of the Reformation. Later, Pope Pius 9, wrote a "Syllabus of Errors" in which he pronounced specified political freedoms and scientific thinking, as anathema.

Posted by: McZoid 2007-11-05 19:27

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