China Says Evangelicals Have ‘Kidnapped’ the Trump Administration by JOHN HAYWARD for Breitbart
GNN Note – If this is true we have done a terrible job.
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In the course of its days-long sputtering tirade against U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for daring to criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chinese state media on Tuesday blasted Pompeo’s Christianity and claimed the entire Trump administration has been “kidnapped” by Evangelicals.
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The CCP is deeply antithetical to religion since its believers are more likely to question the authority of the Communist hierarchy, hold their rulers to higher moral standards, and get funny ideas about individual rights bequeathed to all human beings by a power more exalted than the state. In China, religious believers routinely suffer appalling persecution, from the CCP’s endless war against “unlicensed” Christian churches to its concentration camps for Uyghur Muslims.
From that perspective, the Chinese state-run Global Times decided that one of the biggest problems with Pompeo is that he is one of those sinister Christian fundamentalists, and his narrow little religious mind is stuffed full of arrogant white supremacist ideas:
Many evangelical Christians tend to believe that America is a land chosen by God. Jonathan Edwards, an evangelist and one of the dominant figures in the 18th century, once said that “The latter-day glory is probably to begin in America.”
Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible for US politicians like Pompeo to believe the CPC-led China. They regard China as a completely different kind, or a rival of the US. In fact, since Trump took office, US policies toward China have been kidnapped by their deep-rooted religious beliefs.
What’s more, Pompeo and his like firmly believe that the Western civilization dominates global civilization. This being the case, the rise of China, a so-called different civilization, has been regarded as a challenge to Western civilization. As US political scientist and academic Samuel P. Huntington posited in his book Clash of Civilizations, “the rise of China is the potential source of a big intercivilizational war of core states.”
The CCP likes to drag Huntington, who died in 2008 and can no longer defend his “clash of civilizations” thesis, out of his tomb for a thumping every now and then because he supposedly provided a veneer of intellectual cover to the Trump Administration’s brutish xenophobic hatred of noble China.
