When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship i…

Eric Metaxas
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When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’. ✨ Raising Good Men. Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 4, 2013.
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