In their effort to "exert total control" over religion and to "sinicise" Catholic and Protestant Christianity, the authorities have "ordered the removal of crosses from churches [and] replaced images of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary with pictures of President Xi Jinping," the report said. 
The Chinese government has also required "the display of CCP [Chinese Communist Party] slogans at the entrances of churches, censored religious texts, imposed CCP-approved religious materials, and instructed clergy to preach CCP ideology," the USCIRF report said. 
Its investigation pointed to a report from 2019 of a Catholic church in the eastern province of Jiangxi that was forced to replace a painting of the Virgin Mary with her child with one of President Xi. 
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Trots gunna be right, they are gunna be stuck with authoritarianism cause the economic miracle has ended
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Xi is probably nuts, but this wasn't ordered because he sees himself equal with God or anything. It was done purely to intimidate and exert control over churches because they believe in an authority structure different from (and in fact greater than) the state. Dictators can't handle that, their ego won't allow it.
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reread your comment until you understand how stupid it is
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I'm sorry Senpai, you're right. Dictatorial authority figures should be omnipresent in our lives and we should never question that.
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Don't be silly, dictatorial authority figures are bad. I'm just saying:
In a very practical way this is seeking equality with God in people's lives.
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why stop at equality?
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There's nothing really new here. All states have attempted to exercise control over religion for this same reason: no competing external authority to the state is allowed. China just goes the extra mile about it.
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Jesus is a symbol of hatespeech chud
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Maybe Xi is another younger brother
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Rolling for a new Boxer Rebellion type scenario
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Good. President Xi has done more for humanity than fake butt Jesus ever has.
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