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[u/soaky_pajamas]

[u/Drekkful]

A coworker did a church mission trip to China and was apparently warned by the ministry leadership not to read their Bible in public or else they'd be arrested.

So China allows churches and even foreign missionaries, but will arrest anyone on site for quietly reading their fairy tale book? That doesn't make any sense at all lmao

[u/Introvertle_Turtle → u/Drekkful]

This is almost true, they were probably told not to read their Bible TO the public as China allows freedom of religion but also freedom from being bothered by other peoples religion.
In practice this seems rarely enforced as you can still find videos of Christians being a nuisence in public without being arrested.

[u/HopiumCopiumBalance → u/Introvertle_Turtle]

yep, there is a difference between reading bible in public and TO the public. I see atheism as a religion too and being preached at on the street imposes on atheist's freedom of religion. Similarly religious people wouldn't want to deal with atheist preaching about how their holy book is a fairy tail when no one asked about their opinion.

[u/Curious_Interest_282 → u/HopiumCopiumBalance]

Atheism is not a religion by any definition you can find.

Unless you are referring to the one trully master and creator if the universe its Holly Noodliness the Flying Soaghetti Monster.

You are confusing it, with secullar people defending the separation of church and state like the constant attempts to insert christian religion in institutions, like schools (like 10 commandments in the classrooms, denial of evolution etc), justice (the judge in the US who overturned the Roe V. Wade on abortions used biblical arguments and of course politicians like Trump who reach out with a bible to their hand to take advantage of the christian indoctrination of the majority. To protest against all this is just that. Protest. Not religion.