The Truth About Religion in China: Is It Really Banned? / 关于中国宗教的真相：真的被禁止了吗？

[@palmpalm5131]

This is the best explanation of this issue. Thank you.

[@vErVe75]

Thank you for making this video. I understand better now and i truly agree with what Chinese govt is doing to limit the use of social media to spread any religious propaganda

[@accentedlife]

Thanks for your comment! I agree with it as well

[@jeffreysetapak]

​@@accentedlifeYou are Orthodox Christian?? This means you are using Julian calendar. This also means your Christmas it's not on 25th December in Gregorian Calendar. Your Christmas is much later.

[@choongmin63]

Very good information about religion in China

[@S0läriz1831]

hi ，首先要感谢up主的理性的讨论，这比国外的主流媒体好多了，但是我还是要指出一些问题， “在中国，只有被授权的宗教人士可以在社交媒体发布”，这显然是错的，我身边很多朋友是佛教徒（藏传佛教），他们的社交媒体（微博、朋友圈）有非常多宗教相关的内容，例如分享他们去了哪个寺庙，家中供奉的佛像等等。如果你想验证，只需要去一个寺庙，随机找一个在拍照或者来祈祷的人，问他能不能把照片发到社交媒体，然后你就知道真相了。 至于你的帖子为什么被ban（我们叫‘限流’），你需要理解一个14亿人口是如何管理的，首先中央政府公布他们的原则，“首先宗教不能分裂国家，在这个前提下，宗教是自由的”，这是写在宪法里的，然后每个省市、地区、每个企业会按照这个原则来做事，比如社交媒体公司，会在他们的服务加一些审核的代码，这些代码的机制是黑箱的，但我觉得会有这样的机制: "如果是外国人发布的宗教内容，就可能触发审核，然后导致你的文章被限流"。这样听起来非常粗暴，但是如果一个社交媒体公司没有执行好，他们的企业可能会被罚款，所以每个社交公司都尽量遵循这个规则，但是并不是每个社交媒体的黑箱策略都一样，你可以试试不同的社交媒体。

[@accentedlife]

谢谢你的有趣评论！是的，我会和寺庙里的人讨论这个问题

[@Zerpentsa6598]

YT is censoring my posts as well for their anti-US contents. I see them, but others can't. Hi, censor! You reading them! 😂😂😂

[@KennyHello]

有信仰沒問題，中國也沒有禁止宗教信仰，但有人過於沈迷，導致客易被利用而引發衝突！中國14億人口，因宗教引起動亂，實難以控制！

[@George-k6o9t]

I am unsure about the use of the word, "addicted" to religion as a proper description for those who are RADICAL EXTREMISTS in their religious faith. These are the people who believe that in order to satisfy their "god", they must be 100% totally immersed in their beliefs thoroughly to the extreme. Such radical extremists are what give us CULTS such as the Falun Gong and the hundreds of others found in the U.S. such as the Koresh Branch Davidian, Heaven's Gate, The Peoples Temple, The (Manson) Family, etc which have led to mass murders and suicides. In China, there was the "Taiping" ("Big Peace") God worshipping religious society in the 1850s that led to the deaths of an estimated more than 20 million people in a rebellion against all foreigners and the Qing (Manchu) government. The thing to note is that when something of significance happens in China, it NEVER occurs in a small way. It is ALWAYS huge and far sweeping and this is due to the size of the land and the population. When Mao unleashed his "Great Leap Forward", it created a huge economic upheaval in the country and when he set off his "Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution", the country went into a virtual meltdown across the board. Now, when China has grasped the concept that "it is good to be rich" as espoused by the late Deng Hsiao-peng, we see the gigantic movement of a nation towards an unstoppable economic and technological advancement that is shaking the world and making some tremble. Knowing that China doesn't do things by half measures ("China speed"), one should be able to realize the tremendous energy and forces within the Chinese diaspora. If the people are given full reign to radicalism or extremism in whatever beliefs - political, philosophical, religious - one can imagine it all going off like a billion thermonuclear warheads and this must not be allowed to happen - which is why there is such measured and wise control applied.

[@kamyuen1478]

That was very well thought out and certainly rationalises the stance taken. It would be interesting to present this to somebody who is at least borderline anti-china to see what that think.

[@toyvng]

Great share of experience - there is one more thing i would like to add though, is that not only religion, superstitions are also very much regulated on media and platforms as well - perhaps even way more heavily than religions themselves, like zodiac astrology, taros and oujie boards (along with other native ones). Which if you ask me is pretty based

[@accentedlife]

Yeah, true, agree. The most disappointing thing for me is that as a result of these policies it's impossible to shoot any supernatural-horror movies in China. It is considered as spreading superstitions and doesn't get a green light during production phase :D

[@George-k6o9t]

The Chinese Constitution GUARANTEES freedom of religious beliefs - within certain boundaries (eg NO radicalism, no interference into government policies and no involvement in political recourse and no proselytizing (logic: if your faith is real and true and strong enough, people will come into belief voluntarily and need no persuasion on your part)). We also receive many Mainland Chinese students here in Australia on student visas and they are Christians. Some Catholics, some Baptists and many who are Christians from Buddhist parents and families. But Christianity and Buddhism are NOT the only religions in China. There are also Muslims and along with them, mosques as well as their halal restaurants and Friday prayers. Apart from those "mainline religions", there are also smatterings of Taoism and Confucianism although these are more philosophies than religions with supernatural deities. Then, there are also the time-honored and revered Chinese folk-lore religions associated with nature and animism. Finally, a tiny minority of Keifeng Jews in China practice Judaism. The idea that China is a monolithic totally atheist country with 1.5 billion robotic zombies is the sort of crazy, Hollywood-inspired fictional dystopian world dreamt up by the West (the U.S.A. in particular with a hateful diatribe towards anyone that it doesn't like). With 56 different ethnic groups all making up collectively known as "Chinese", it really stretches the imagination that China is the sort of land described by Western media to be a "godless" and "god forsaken" empty wasteland (when in all truthful reality, the West today is far more godless in its total belief in the theory of evolution and Darwinism).

[@MarkMiller304]

Religion is allowed in China, cults and extremism are banned though. I don’t see a problem with that.

[@S0läriz1831]

可能有人会疑问，为什么宗教会分裂国家？以藏传佛教为例，他们有不同的流派，都认为自己是正统，当时的政府（清朝）会官方承认其中一个，所以，宗教流派之争会涉及到政治，但是到了19世纪，殖民主义的到来改变了一些规则，没有被政府承认的一方，会依赖外国的支持来争夺宗教的正统性，直到现在，这个游戏也依旧如此

[@accentedlife]

这个话题绝对非常有趣，值得进一步探讨

[@HeviFirza]

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[@siewkonsum7291]

Religion is not banned in China for personal practice & to believe. However no one is allowed to proselytize or propagate his/her religion to others by law, right? 😊

[@araara4746]

Preaching religion to others is not prohibited in China, but with several provisions, such as not in public, not in an unregistered church or temple.

[@AaronSutton-fj2oz]

Christian is banned but all others are free and open

[@Jie-n2r]

很简单，因为你的内容触发了限流机制，中国法律规定在不涉及国家安全的前提下，民众可信教自由，但宗教活动只有在宗教场所或者你自己家中进行。如果你的内容涉及教义传播，那么即会触发限流。但是你分享去寺庙参观祈祷这些不涉及教义或者宗教内容传播的是可以正常发的。

[@accentedlife]

是的，我想是的。我可能会尝试在不触发算法的情况下发布一些内容，看看效果如何

[@廖博]

其实中国人对西方宗教信仰有点好奇，你是主动选择宗教信仰（成年后对宗教有了一个基础认知.而选择），还是因为生活环境被动选择呢。（例如很多穆斯林因为父母是穆斯林，下一代就必须信教）这个其实是天差之比的，

[@accentedlife]

视情况而定。非常传统的家庭会让孩子继承他们的宗教信仰，但更现代的家庭会让孩子选择自己的宗教信仰。对我来说，基督教是我自己的选择，但我是在基督教的环境中长大的

[@ganzhishijie]

@@accentedlife 环境选择吧....

[@FrancoisEustache-ed6gd]

We must remember that the Christian Faith was chosen by a Roman Emperor to be the State Religion of the Roman Empire and to this day doesn't like the Separation of Church & State. So when the leaders of organized religion cannot impose their political views on the State they feel opress. In China there is a strict legal framework for the Separation of Church and State. One rule that shock most members of foreign organized religion is that the freedom of religion is for adults only. Children cannot be educated (force fed) into a religious faith because the governement is the sole provider for Education and their curriculum is secular only. So no learning to read with the Quran or the Bible or the Thorah. No teaching of any faith in sunday school. Parents have the right to practice their Faith at home but they cannot force their children to do so. There is a Christian movement that is growing in size because they have adopted the early Christian strategy of very small congregations that meet in homes only.

[@accentedlife]

What's your opinion about it? Do you support it?

[@FrancoisEustache-ed6gd]

@@accentedlife Well I was born an original sinner. I was borne from original sin. And if I had a dollar bill For all the things I've done There'd be a mountain of money Piled up to my chin My mother told me good My mother told me strong. She said "Be true to yourself And you can't go wrong." "But there's just one thing That you must understand." "You can fool with your brother But don't mess with a missionary man." Eurytmics

[@jeffreysetapak]

You are Orthodox Christian?? This means you are using Julian calendar. This also means your Christmas it's not on 25th December in Gregorian Calendar. Your Christmas is much later.

[@accentedlife]

Yes, that right. We celebrate Christmas on 7th of January :)

[@julianclegg1922]

​@@accentedlifeso it's only two weeks later 😊

[@julianclegg1922]

For some reason I like the Julian calendar, but my friend Gregory is not so keen ;)

[@ekasulisno2164]

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