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Hot Take: it's actually a good thing that AES states don't allow evangelical proselytising (hexbear.net)

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I went to Vietnam a couple times. If you hang out downtown in the city, you might get a random Jehovah's Witness or Seventh Day Adventist* try to chat you up. "Oh, we can't do missionary work out in the open, so we just do one-on-one conversations like this". Despite the lack of "Jesus saves, die sinner" signs in Hanoi, you can definitely find Catholic and Protestant churches in Vietnam.

The Western press likes to piss and moan about settler nation missionaries that go, without proper visas mind you, to spread their Western versions of Christianity to the DPRK, only to get deported. So am I allowed to enter a white people country without a visa to stir up trouble and expect no consequences???

I'm the furthest thing from an expert on Myanmar. I get everything I know from Burmese friends. But if you look into the minority people situation, many of them are being heavily proselytised by the worst of the Amerikan type. I don't want the Pat Robertson's the world anywhere near struggling people.

*I'm definitely not saying that JWs and SDAs are anywhere near the worst as Christian sects go.

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[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What I mean is that priority of aggression should clearly be given to the religions that wield or practically threaten to wield political power, like the Catholic or Orthodox churches, the evangelical bloc in America, and indeed many Eastern religious entities like, uh, Vajrayana Buddhism in Bhutan, for example, or the Tibetan church of old, before the PLA liberated Tibet. Unfortunately I think this puts Theravada on the chopping block since it has great clerical emphasis, but that's just how it is. Reform Jews, miscellaneous protestants, the more decentralized branches of Mahayana, and other such religions are fine, we don't need to gulag Shintoists unless they're the Imperial kind.

But if you take my view as too liberal, then you may as well go banning space religions while you're at it.

[-] TheDeed@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reform Jews, not Reformed

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

My bad. As you can see, it's at the edge of my ken, I've only ever known Jewish people who are so secular that they aren't even in a sect anymore.

[-] TheDeed@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

It's all good, even the Judaism subreddit (don't go there, it's ass) had a bot that would automatically make this correction when posted, its a common one even for people that are religious/deep in the sects