{"id":6157,"date":"2010-11-25T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2010-11-25T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T16:16:44","slug":"china-vs-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6157","title":{"rendered":"China vs Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-11829664\">Vatican threatens new China bishop with excommunication<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Vatican has threatened a bishop with excommunication after he was ordained by China&#8217;s state-backed Catholic Church without papal approval.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if people will actually notice this one.  Maybe next they will just declare a new Chinese Messiah.  It will be a new Chinese Christianity; it could be a state religion where the Vatican is a pretender throne.<\/p>\n<p>No one seemed to care when China did this with Tibetan Buddhism (the plot of Martin Scorsese&#8217;s &#8220;Kundun&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Basically, China&#8217;s Maoist government got tired of having a religion that competed with the state, so they exterminated Tibetan culture and ran the Dalai Lama out of the country.  The government then appointed a new religious leader of Buddhism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican threatens new China bishop with excommunication The Vatican has threatened a bishop with excommunication after he was ordained by China&#8217;s state-backed Catholic Church without papal approval. I wonder if people will actually notice this one. Maybe next they will just declare a new Chinese Messiah. It will be a new Chinese Christianity; it could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}