“You are a preacher of the communist party,” – a proselytiser verging on religious fanaticism"
Finally! An inside source confirms exactly what I have said in my reviews of BOTH of Xi's books! He speaks of the Communist Party as a religious cult with himself as its Patriarch.
Well, I think, any critical China watcher would agree that the CCP has cult-like characteristics. (I mean, Mao is even on these Buddhist (?) plaques. Not sure, whether they do that with Xi already, though.)
Communism, like most other ideologies, is a religion surrogate, anyway.
Communism, like most other ideologies, is a religion surrogate, anyway.
True, but I've not found many other "religion surrogates" that mimic the trappings so perfectly that the pigs and the men truly are indistinguishable, at the risk of abusing an Orwellian metaphor.
As for Xi, I haven't seen any altars to him like the ones I saw to Mao, but religious believers throughout rural China are being told "no more financial aid from the government unless you replace all religious icons in your homes with portraits of Xi."
Yeah, I read that about Christian churches, mosques & Tibetan temples. Didn't know that it would be applied to pretty much anyone religious.