{"id":16462,"date":"2020-10-06T05:55:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/?p=16462"},"modified":"2020-10-06T07:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T11:17:25","slug":"chinese-community-party-re-writes-bible-in-new-textbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2020\/10\/chinese-community-party-re-writes-bible-in-new-textbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Communist Party Re-Writes Bible in New Textbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

News reports indicate that a Chinese ethics textbook has changed the story of the women caught in adultery so that Jesus stoned the woman to death and himself is named a \u201csinner.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Epoch Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The textbook in question is entitled \u201cProfessional Ethics and the Law\u201d and is used in vocational training schools across China. \u2026\u00a0The textbook instead subverts the ending [of the story of the women caught in adultery] to read: \u201cWhen everyone left, Jesus stoned the woman to death himself, saying, \u2018I am also a sinner. But if the law could only be enforced by men without blemish, the law would be dead.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There you have it, the Chinese community party is inventing a new agraphon (sayings of Jesus not written in the Gospels).<\/p>\n

This is part of a wider trend of religious suppression by the Chinese Communist Party:<\/p>\n

The CCP has presided over a\u00a0tightening crackdown<\/a>\u00a0on underground Christians and other religious groups, demolishing churches and detaining\u00a0church<\/a>\u00a0members and leaders.\u00a0In September 2019, Chinese officials forced a Catholic church in the eastern province of Jiangxi to replace a picture of the Virgin Mary and her child with that of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according to Bitter Winter, an online magazine reporting on religious freedom issues in China. The officials also ordered the church to display the national flag at the entrance and to replace its church name with a banner that read \u201cFollow the Party, thank the Party, and obey the Party.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News reports indicate that a Chinese ethics textbook has changed the story of the women caught in adultery so that Jesus stoned the woman to death and himself is named a \u201csinner.\u201d According to the Epoch Times: The textbook in question is entitled \u201cProfessional Ethics and the Law\u201d and is used in vocational training schools […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nChinese Communist Party Re-Writes Bible in New Textbook<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"News reports indicate that a Chinese ethics textbook has changed the story of the women caught in adultery so that Jesus stoned the woman to death and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2020\/10\/chinese-community-party-re-writes-bible-in-new-textbook\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chinese Communist Party Re-Writes Bible in New Textbook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"News reports indicate that a Chinese ethics textbook has changed the story of the women caught in adultery so that Jesus stoned the woman to death and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2020\/10\/chinese-community-party-re-writes-bible-in-new-textbook\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Euangelion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michael.bird.33\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-06T09:55:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-06T11:17:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael F. 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