Christianity Attacked in China

China goes after Christians more and more often lately. Their hands off approach to unofficial and non party churches has been policy since the 1990s. It should be an obvious aside, but before that the Communists made it their full time job to kill, exile, and forcefully convert Christians.

Now under President Xi, China is returning to classic isolationist East Asian policy. The Koreans in the last dynasty (Choson 1390s-1910) and Japan (Tokugawa 1600-1868) who both expelled and killed Christians because they fundamentally subvert the system. The Bible and Christ's message is subversive.

Remember this in an age where materialist-progressiveness is rising in the West. Pray.

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