The Chinese Communist Party continues to tighten its control over religion, as a video of monks taking the oath to join the Party was surprisingly surfaced on the Internet earlier. (Image source: Screenshot of the video)
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to tighten its control over religion, and on February 9 it just issued the Measures for the Administration of Religious Clergy, which imposes comprehensive control on clergy and emphasizes the promotion of the so-called “Chineseization of religion. The Measures will come into effect on May 1.
The mainland media today published the full text of the Measures for the Administration of Religious Clergy announced by the Communist Party’s State Administration for Religious Affairs, saying that the Measures are of “important significance” in promoting the “chinization of religion.
The content clearly requires religious clergy to “love the motherland, support the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and support the socialist system,” and requires them to “practice the core values of socialism” and adhere to the “Chineseization of religion direction”.
The Administrative Measures stipulate the so-called rights, obligations, and norms of conduct of religious clergy, and explicitly prohibit religious personnel from “being dominated by foreign forces or accepting teaching appointments from foreign religious groups or institutions without permission.
The Administrative Measures also stipulate that religious clergy identified by religious groups at all levels shall be reported to the religious affairs departments at all levels of government for the record; if they engage in religious activities across provinces, they must be approved by the local and destination religious groups and reported to the religious affairs departments of the provincial governments of both places for the record; religious groups are also required to conduct assessments, rewards and punishments for clergy, etc.
Under the Chinese Communist Party, religion has long been politicized, and the religious community has been plagued by chaos, with temples holding ceremonies to raise the Communist Party’s five-star flag, monks taking an oath to join the Party, and Buddhist monk Yin Shun, vice president of the Communist Party’s Buddhist Association, publicly declaring that the 19th National Congress report is a “Buddhist scripture” and that he has copied it by hand three times and will copy it 10 more times, and asking Buddhists to follow his example.
Religious officials, like other Communist Party officials, have been the subject of frequent corruption and debauchery scandals.
In an interview with overseas media, Professor Nie Sen, head of the department of the Catholic University of America, said that the current religious chaos in mainland China is due to the fact that the Communist Party forces people with religious beliefs to listen to it in the first place, and that the Communist Party is their real godfather. Therefore, the Communist Party is the state religion, the great cult, and the devil religion of the mainland.
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