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The Two Faces of China and the Sacred Doctrine
By Dana G Smith
Keywords: China, Bibles, Christian, Persecution, OppressionWords:1233
Walmart Buys into the Slave trade in China. Walmart is only one of many American companies and Ministries who do business with the Two faced Giant we call China
This year China will host the Olympics. All eyes are and have been on this nation. President Nixon first opened the door to this society many years ago. Then it was in the midst of its own cultural revolution, Red Guard style. Over the years this nation has changed. Its own lifestyles, clothing, business, and international affairs have seemed to adapt more to modern society. When one mentions China, the major supplier Wal Mart comes to mind. Not only Wal Mart but many other top companies do business with China today. It seems only right, some say, that China should now host the Olympics. On the Olympics Website there is a warning though aimed at all athletes and other travelers coming to China. It says: “Each traveler is recommended to take no more than one Bible into China.†[timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3019026.ece]
This warning gives one side of the face to the current China we know today. Just like the businesses which use this nation and later find out the horrendous working sweat shops that we trade with use. It is over the backs, sweat, and hard labor of poor Chinese that our American goods are made for rich companies to sell to rich Americans so they can have more goods in their homes. Our consciences don’t seem to bother us on this agenda of such apathy regarding the ethics of business with this nation. As well, this nation is having the Olympics. With this event comes prestige that says “you are one of us now.†It relates that the nation is open, honest, fair, and treats all humans with respect. Nothing however could be farther from the truth. In fact, there is a duality, two faces if you will in China today. The one political-geo face which major national companies see and do business with and then there is the heavy handed communist regime that has always been oppressive.
The major Christian publishing firm of Amity press is one top producer of Bibles in the world today. In China, the bible is known as the “sacred doctrineâ€. As we look at the “sacred doctrine†know that Amity is the major producer of bibles in China. The people at Amity made arrangements with government officials in China to produce a Chinese version of the bible. The bible production from Amity in China has now celebrated its 50 millionth bible to come off the presses in that nation.
Amity Printing Company is now one of the biggest bible printing presses in the world and one of the thin paper printing experts in China. [www.amityfoundation.org/wordpress/?p=138]
The news is good that tells Christians and other nations of the freedom to have bibles in China. But in all this news, is that really the story? Is there another one hidden? I know of a close friend who is a Christian, whose daughter worked in China, Taiwan to be exact, going into mainland China for certain duties. The friend told me of the availability of bibles and the many Christians they found there when on a trip to China recently. But is this the whole story? Not at all! Many people today either ignore or have no time to really understand the complex machinery that makes China go.
The Times Online in the UK ran a story on the 50 million bibles to run off Amity’s presses in China. The information is true. There have been a tremendous influx of bibles into China, which is good, but this is not the whole story. To understand this you would have to know that only officially approved Protestant and Catholic churches can have this bible. The bible is also only on sale through a distribution system managed by the official church, which is first sanctioned to follow the state, communism, and then their faith. As a result there are millions upon millions of Christians who worship in private underground churches in China today. This is the other face to the China you may read about and hear about.
The underground churches in China actually have a network of pastors, deacons, prophets, and other workers keeping the wheel of the faith in China going. One recently elected leader, who is Pastor Zhang Mingxuan, was named President of the Chinese House Church Alliance. This Pastor wrote President Hu Jintao a letter telling him of the plight of those in house churches in China. In this letter he details attrocities of local and regional officials against those in this underground church. He also tells a number of personal experiences. One of which says that on February 21, 2002, we had a meeting of testimonies at the residence of Beiqi in Changping. At the time, US President Bush was visiting China for the first time. Changping Public Security Bureau took away 47 of us Christians, including three of whom were blind (two of whom were over 80 and one whom was only seven.) When these believers are taken into custody, many times they are beaten, tortured, and thrown in cells without food or water. They are mistreated and even killed. All this is usually with the knowledge of the local and regional officials who sanction this treatment.
Further, in a recent communiqué from the China Aid society, 270 House Church Pastors in the Shandong Province have been detained for what the Chinese officials are calling an “illegal religious gatheringâ€. The Pastors met December 7 at 1:30 pm for a bible study when the police officials disrupted the meeting and took them to jail. We have written proven testimonies, evidence if you will of the treatment of these Christian leaders and believers in China. While China is on the world stage, making agreements with major companies and even ministries we may know of, China has an ongoing persecution of our Brothers and Sisters in Christ.
These are the two faces, duality of China today. On the one hand you see a smiling friendly face; on the other is a terrible hand of the red regime. This is the communist empire of old, persecuting its own people for its own selfish purposes. Several years ago I read a testimony of a Chinese brother who was finally able to come to the USA. He had told a true story of how when in custody for his faith, they would beat him, break his fingers, and persecute him terribly, all because he was a Christian. He further relates how he was forced to make Christmas light bulbs, the small ones for a major US company to sell in America for Christmas. He tells how he would put together these small bulbs for an American holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus using Christmas lights he was forced to make using his broken fingers.
I do not today use any kind of such bulbs for Christmas. I also strive to buy American and not Chinese. China has to clean up her act. If she is truly changed, then let there be one face. China must have a face of truth and democracy which will shine out to the world, a face which has a proven track record. Let China stop persecuting these innocent ones. Let Americans top allowing China to continue its atrocities, by refusing Chinese goods until China cleans up her act.
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Dana G Smith is the author of D-Day For America, a prophecy book of what is coming to America. Published by Xulon Press, ISBN: 1-59781-843-7. Dana is the editor of the W.I.B.R. online Web Sites.
He Hosts WARN Radio, “into the night”, airing Fridays 9 PM Pacific on The America Voice radio network. He also is The Watchman of W.A.R.N. Radio Network, www.warn-usa.com.
His articles appear on his own news sites at www.wingswatchman.org, www.ddayforamerica.com, www.warn-usa.com , and on many sites around the web.
Dana is a Watchman, “let the Watchman declare what he see’s Isaiah 21:6. He is also an investigative and research journalist who lives in the Midwest. You can contact him through his websites or email watchman at wingswatchman.org.
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