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Grab your attention? Fox news recently reported that the fastest growing Christian Churches in China are being crushed by Communist authorities who fear any independent social group that could challenge their political / ideological authority. Tibetan Buddhism and Islam come in for similar treatment. Commericalization hasn’t improved their tollerance for religion it seems.
Sounds like the status quo hasn’t changed much in China since Watchman Nee.
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Hirsch writes that it was when this kind of persecution started that the Church started taking off. With 50 years of growth under persecution, you wonder why they bother. Just like in Acts 8, the persecution of the first Christians scatters them and the Gospel spreads.
I wonder what would happen if Aussie churches were closed by government order – would things come alive as in China? The again, we get a persecution complex if ever the neighbours complain about loud music, or when people advocate reduction of privileges for the Church.
And why does it take three months for a story like this to reach the world media?
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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully
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karma, were you looking for e.g. —
http://mattstone.blogs.com/christian/2009/03/is-the-god-of-the-old-testament-christian.html
(Or use the site search for ‘Old Testament’.)
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@karma,
We are living in 21th century CE, not the 21th century AD. The book you refer to is the Hebrew Bible, or more specifically, the Tanakh, the name used by the jew for the book makes up the canon for belief of the jew and their god(s).
Was people use the correct name maybe it will become clear why Christians, Muslims, Pagan, and members of countless other religions have always had a distaste for those the practice the religion of the god(s) you described.
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