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Context on China banning this type of cults:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9155093

China’s National Religious Affairs Administration issued a set of rules on the management of online behaviors for clerical personnel, which included activities such as online preaching scriptures and providing religious education or training on the internet, according to a release on the official website of National Religious Affairs Administration on Tuesday.

The 18-article document details provisions for religious personnel’s online conduct, requiring clerical personnel to comply with national laws and relevant regulations.

The regulation stipulates that religious personnel’s online scripture preaching and religious education or training can only be conducted through legally established websites, apps, forums, or other online platforms operated by religious groups, religious institutions, temples, or churches that have obtained the license to provide online religious information services issued by official departments.

The regulation prohibits clerical personnel from engaging in online self-promotion, supporting or participating in overseas religious infiltration activities, spreading religious extremist ideologies, promoting cults or heresies, or profiting from religion.

The new rules are intended to implement existing laws on religious affairs, standardize the online behavior of religious personnel, and maintain order in online religious activities.

Previously, the Buddhist Association of China announced in July that it has agreed to revoke the ordination certificate of Shi Yongxin, former abbot of the renowned Shaolin Temple, over suspected criminal offenses, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

Shi Yongxin is suspected of criminal offences, including embezzling and misappropriating project funds and temple assets. He has also been accused of serious violations of Buddhist precepts, maintaining long-term inappropriate relationships with multiple women and having at least one illegitimate child, Xinhua reported, citing the Shaolin Temple management office.

  • GlueBear @lemmygrad.ml
    24·
    15 days ago

    Every society needs to regulate religion to a degree. You don’t have to do head scarf or yarmulkes bans, but you should probably monitor the stuff people preach about

        • Maeve @lemmygrad.ml
          5·
          14 days ago

          Idk, public contradiction, maybe. I know plenty of Catholic (and protestant, for that matter, whose churches forbid it, but are somehow fine with Viagra) women who quietly use birth control and still attend mass/services several times a week.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
            3·
            14 days ago

            Yeah I guess people can be culturally Catholic without actually believing in any of the stuff the church says. It’s just a place to meet up with the community once every Sunday + holidays. That’s probably most denominations of Christians tbh

              • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
                3·
                14 days ago

                I think a lot of “religious” people living under capitalist modernity are in denial. Even when they want to believe, they can’t. It’s the curse of bourgeois revolution - all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, etc etc.

        • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          14 days ago

          Eh, even that’s surmountable, eg the current pope is illegitimate but the church abides, awaiting a correct pope. The church has survived terrible popes before. So even that isn’t a showstopper.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
            3·
            14 days ago

            I don’t see it. He has primacy, he’s the vicar of Christ, he can’t be illegitimate by definition. There can’t be an incorrect Pope.

            Eastern Orthodox can square this circle because they respect papal primacy without papal supremacy, so the Pope is first among equals and the bishop in Rome rather than the Supreme Pontiff of all bishops and churches. Rome can have an incorrect Pope and that doesn’t effect their faith or churches, because they have their autonomy.

            Roman Catholics are Roman Catholic because they acknowledge papal supremacy. If they reject it, they reject the Church.

      • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml
        5·
        15 days ago

        That varies by a lot. The really batshit protestants fled to the colonies back then. The remaining protestant churches tend to be toeing the state line to alright, because they’re only losely organized. Because closer organization was exactly the problem that led to their og protestation in the first place.

  • Gấu Ngựa@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    14 days ago

    Previously, the Buddhist Association of China announced in July that it has agreed to revoke the ordination certificate of Shi Yongxin, former abbot of the renowned Shaolin Temple, over suspected criminal offenses, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

    Shi Yongxin is suspected of criminal offences, including embezzling and misappropriating project funds and temple assets. He has also been accused of serious violations of Buddhist precepts, maintaining long-term inappropriate relationships with multiple women and having at least one illegitimate child, Xinhua reported, citing the Shaolin Temple management office.

    If the investigations would substantiate those allegations against Shi Yongxin, then Shi Yongxin would be indeed a cobra monk (from Vietnamese ‘sư hổ mang’).