This doesn't stand only for China also

They're soldiers. They fight wars.

They are soldiers of the country

In the 70s they killed the Red Guards

their oath is to serve it and protect it's people. That stands for out of the country enemies, and inside the country

Did they killed Mao?

God killed Mao

Did they killed Mao?

God doesn't kill

one person

If that was the case

Stalin would be in hell

sooner

Churchill would be in hell sooner

So far I have your boomer and nofoolintulin for guests

@Amadeus a lot of Russians weren’t communists, and their army was brainwashed

@blondishasp , sure, add me as well

@Iakovos Most of them weren't brainwashed, some were added to the army by force and they had the red lines that if you tried to flee they would kill you off

Okay Arcane, if you want to appear I will have to screen you beforehand

np

@blondishasp what do you need me to do?

When I am ready I'll allow you to join a voice channel and prep you

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I've been to China, with religious items, been to church, my wife is a Christian Catholic, and we never faced any persecution whatsoever @Deleted User

I wear a Saint Michael medal on my neck all the time and of course you show it to the airport police and they didn't have an issue with it

So the presecution they do to the Churches and what they enforce what is it?

90% of this religious persecution is western media propaganda

@Deleted User is he your patron saint?

@Deleted User do Orthodox have patron saints?

The largest church to get shut down in recent memory was in Chengdu or Chongqing I forget which

@Iakovos there was kinda three aspects of the Soviet Army--the actual communists who deserved to die, the non-communists forced into it or going along with it just to survive, and then the ones that were holdovers from Imperial Russia (aka the best ones, the true patriots)
the first ones deserved to die, the rest deserved far better than the Soviet Union

I've read their statement of faith and it was basically like Jehovah Witness trash

@Iakovos Yes https://orthodoxwiki.org/Patron_saint here is the list

They said things like, you can't have a government job if you are a Christian, no true Christians can be cops or soldiers etc

It was very similar to JW trash and they were shut down for it

There's a Catholic Church in Shanghai that has had 3000 people in one mass

There's Orthodox churches up north, where ethnic Russians with PRC citizenship go

So the enforcing of states doctrine is a lie?

Protestant churches too

It depends

While the CCP is officially atheist, Protestantism and Catholicism are two of five faiths sanctioned by the government and religious freedom has been enshrined in the constitution since the 1980s. For decades, authorities tolerated the house churches, which refused to register with government bodies that required church leaders to adapt teachings to follow party doctrine.