That isn’t related to the point I am trying to make, and it isn’t an appropriate discussion on HN as it will only burn in flames.
Let me try again:
Idea - Religion is suffering. In a better world religion is unnecessary.
CCP - We are creating a better world by ridding it of religion.
Reality - Organized religion is a major threat to governments and their narrative.
The situation is that the CCP has high sounding ideals from Marx and other communist works. Reality is that religion is a threat to their power. That a narrative that rounding up these troubled people and re-educating them is necessary for the better world to happen.
This outrage is good, but I am simply pointing out that what is happening in China shouldn’t be surprising. The ideas of Karl Marx are only dangerous because people accept ideas without critical thought, and others use his ideas to further their own real agenda under such cover. It’s all straight out of ‘Animal Farm’.