{"title":"Some Conclusions","authors":"M. Introvigne","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190089092.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190089092.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The confrontation between the Chinese regime and The Church of Almighty God does not happen in a vacuum. The chapter reconstructs the different attitudes the Chinese Communist Party has had toward religions. Mao originally believed that, with the progress of Communism in China, religion will naturally disappear. Meanwhile, he tried to control it through five national associations (Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist, and Daoist), to which all believers should mandatorily adhere. This strategy, however, failed to prevent the growth of independent religious bodies, and the Cultural Revolution tried to wipe religion out entirely. After the dust of the Cultural Revolution settled, Deng Xiaoping restored the five national associations and granted religion a limited tolerance. The chapter also shows that, under Xi Jinping, the attitude toward religion became again more negative. The groups banned as xie jiao suffer more than all the others.","PeriodicalId":198980,"journal":{"name":"Inside The Church of Almighty God","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124621018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fake News","authors":"M. Introvigne","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190089092.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190089092.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter discusses the notion of fake news and how it is used in propaganda against controversial religious movements. It then examines several accusations against the CAG originating with Chinese anti-cult organizations and media. Based on the transcript of the 2015 trial and other sources, it discusses the murder in a McDonald’s restaurant in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, in 2014, when a woman was killed by supposed missionaries mentioning the name Almighty God. Chinese authorities immediately attributed the crime to The Church of Almighty God. However, documents clearly prove that the assassins belonged to a different religious movement, which recognized an Almighty God other than the one The Church of Almighty God believes in, a unique divine soul living in the two bodies of the small movement’s female leaders. The accused also denied ever having been members of The Church of Almighty God.","PeriodicalId":198980,"journal":{"name":"Inside The Church of Almighty God","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125396657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}