Communist "Translation" of the Bible

[bookslover]

Has anyone seen the English-translation excerpts from the new Chinese Communist Party "translation" of the Bible? I saw one, in which Jesus declares Himself to be a sinner after killing someone. Totally blasphemous.

 

[W.C. Dean]

I have not, but you've struck my interest. I am going to try to find some.

China instructs Bible to be rewritten as pro-communist: report

The Chinese Communist Party instructed the Bible and other religious texts to be rewritten in an expressly pro-communist perspective that conforms with

americanmilitarynews.com

Alright I looked it up now. This is crazy. I knew weird stuff was going over there, but they're removing Christian symbolism from churches, and replacing them with portraits of Jinping. The article said one church apparently hung a banner that read "Follow the party, thank the party, obey the party". This is like stereotypical totalitarianism. Not really hiding their motives, eh?

 

[Charles Johnson]

I had heard about the effort a year ago from a missionary to China, exactly as described. Sad to hear of its progress.