Evangelical church demolished in China sparks fear

[Guest Kurt]

The similar demolition of a Catholic church last year is prompting Christians to worry that the central government will begin ordering the mass destruction of church buildings nationwide as new religious regulations go into effect next month. These regulations grant the Chinese Communist Party increased power over religion, paving the way for escalated persecution.

according to ChinaAid

Chinese Police Dynamite Christian Megachurch

[David Normand]

Interesting. In Russia they just confiscate the buildings and re-purpose them. Unless there is a problem with the building structure it would seem a waste of resources to destroy them. But then again, if they had left the building standing them it would have been a constant reminder of what had happened and perhaps a rallying point for protest against the confiscation of the building. By destroying the building you remove the physical reminder of what happened I suppose. 

Oh well, eventually all false religion will be destroyed so it really does not matter which religious buildings are destroyed. 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

The issue is not that it was destroyed ... it's WHY it was destroyed.

" Global Times, a state newspaper, described the building’s destruction as part of a “citywide campaign to remove illegal buildings,” and quoted an unidentified official as saying that the church had been “secretly” constructed without proper permits and was initially disguised as a warehouse."

The Society just had confiscated by the Russians a building I think was worth $15 million dollars, that was "supposedly" transferred to Watchtower in the United States... but for many years was CONTINUED to be used by the local Brothers in Russia, same as before.

The Society tried to hide a full size Elephant under a beach towel, and the Russkies were NOT FOOLED.

WHO KNEW that totalitarian governments could not be so easily duped?

 I mean.... WHO KNEW?

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

Here in the United States... if you build a building that is not properly permitted ... they will make you raze it to the ground at YOUR expense, or do it for you, and put a lien on your property, and sell the property out from under you,  to pay for the demolition.

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