Xi and Mao replace Jesus and Mary in Chinese churches

the spectre of communism immaculately impregnated mao, who gave birth to xi.

Hey, finally, a religion tankies are comfortable with!

What the actual fuck???

Maohammed when?

An outrageous claim from the Telegraph. I need a second source.

she came into the manger, way overdue,

and plonked herself down next to the ewe.

then -- leaning back on the cow --

did she, the great chairman mao,

immaculately embirth winnie the pooh.

Which one is Mary, and which Jesus?

Found this:

While we found evidence of both the removal of crosses from churches and the replacement of holy images with that of Xi in China, we find that the reports on the replacement of holy images with Xi to be potentially misleading in some ways in the social media posts.

I need to see the nativity scene version of this! But with Xi's old face on baby Jesus.

I had to double check to see if this was an onion article.

When I see tankie lemmings, I just point to this type of stuff....

Hail, Mary Mao, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus Xi.
Holy Mary Mao, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Hail, Mary Mao, full of grace...

Religion is the opiate of the masses and the CCP insists on being the only dealer around

That's a fairly direct transition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

I watched "The Man in the High Castle", and the Christian imagery and symbolism in a former Christian Church were replaced with Nazi symbolism. I thought it was a bit farfetched, but now hearing something similar being done by China as part of totalitarianism, it is rather spooky. I've heard religious buildings being destroyed, but converting places of worship and blatantly removing its past to align with state ideology is far more surreal and haunting, and I am an agnostic atheist.

This worked out great for Lenin and Stalin who just skipped the middle step and outlawed the church, then put their statues everywhere

Saint Winnie the Pooh

Seriously the onion can't keep up with reality.

I can't wait to go Christmaos Jinping this year! They just put in a new Target in the workers quarter.

I was so hoping to see pictures of mother Mao hold baby Xi

Lmao that's fucking hilarious.

NK levels of brain rot here we come!

Right on track to repeat the horrors of the past with complete blind faith in himself.

I can't wait to watch him fall on his face royally.

Replace Mary in the manger with Mao. Now Mao is giving birth to Jesus. Weirdo.

Oh ya, it's time for Hot Xi Summer.

That is soo messed up

Managed to make religion more believable by replacing the made up with real people.

Good thing all the sources are from US based institutions and NGOs. Must mean they are completely factual and unbiased.

While fucked up, at least Xi and Mao are nominally real (though their particular origin stories and revised histories are also just as made up as those of the religious bunch).

I think this is good actually

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Let China dive this shits into Middle East countries’s mouth :)