"Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested His supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who, being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to exalt it by its influence on reason alone." - Thomas Jefferson, TITLE: Statute of Religious Freedom. EDITION: Washington ed. viii, 454. EDITION: Ford ed., ii, 237. PLACE: [none given] DATE: 1779“Religion must adapt to the society it is in,” said Mr. Chen, whose department, the State Administration for Religious Affairs, is being absorbed into a branch of the Communist Party as part of a sweeping government reorganization.
Totalitarian ideologies, including the "Progressive" ideology elsewhere, demand conformity and "adaptation to the society"--one of the signs of impending tyranny for citizens in the society.
What a striking contrast!
It could still happen, though now it looks like it will not happen "imminently".
Much prayer and many tears have gone up to Heaven over this. May God protect His people from the God-rejecting tyranny of the Party --- and its sometime ally, FrancisChurch.