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The more interesting twist is that China is editing the bibles they print: > the Chinese government is cracking down on the 60 million Christians inside China,
by radley 7y ago
The more interesting twist is that China is editing the bibles they print:
> the Chinese government is cracking down on the 60 million Christians inside China, with party plans of “retranslating and annotating” the Bible to establish a “correct understanding” of the text.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/china-christians-religious-persecution-translation-bible https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/china-christia...
- jhart99 7y agoHah. I am reminded of a particular conversation I had when I was working in China. Our admin informed us around Christmas/New Years that we had to register with the police for "religious celebration" if anyone wanted to have a Christmas party. We were like, "we can't even have food and drinks/gift giving? It isn't like any of us were religious." Yep no parties that might be even superficially religious. We ended up having regular night out instead. While I was there it was noted that any version of the Quran which was not in Chinese was banned and needed to be turned into the authorities because only the official Chinese translation was permitted.