Re: WHO SAYS THERE IS NO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN CHINA?

In article <MPG.2285ff28ccc58e8798a7b2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
s****k@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPAMh3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 
> > On Sat, 3 May 2008 15:53:55 +0800, Raymond wrote
> > (in article <qq5o145eiktl26171nfneug11l6bd76okj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> > 
> > > Religion is only good when it is kept from the power to rule over
the people 
> > > just as capitalism is only good when it is kept from the power to
rule over 
> > > the society. Religion wants to be the God of the people. Capitalism
wants to 
> > > be the God of the consumers. Both are evil entities in searching for
power 
> > > and control. Only the power of the government can keep them both in
their 
> > > rightful place to serve the people instead of harming them.
> > 
> > Well, it is too bad about China, then.
> > 
> > Capitalism in China is beyond the power of the CCP to control (cause
the 
> > members live on the bribes).
> > 
> > Religion can be free without creating a theocracy. Indeed, one
characteristic 
> > of theocracies is that they ban most religions. (Just like the CCP.)
> > 
> Yeah, it's funny. 
> 
> In Turkey, one of the first New Members of NATO, 95% of them are Muslim,
but 
> there are as many Churches and Buddist temples there as are Mosques.
> 
> Turkey is like Iraq was, a secular nation.
> 
> But unlike Iraq, a democracy.
> 
> We all know what Turkey meant during the key period of mankind in Europe
and 
> Asia, they were the middle ground.
> 
> I've met Turks.  They're very proud people.
> 
> 
> If only the Muslim world was like Turkey.  Then things would be so easy.

Turkey had the good fortune to have had Artuk as a leader post WW1


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