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Religious freedom in China

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Lotus Temple (Lianhua Si) in Tongnan County, Chongqing

(h/t Prostate in Flames)

5 Comments

  1. 哈种种 wrote:

    hahaha, this is really fun

    Monday, February 2, 2009 at 9:55 pm | Permalink
  2. Dan wrote:

    I am 90% certain I know who the two people are in the front right, but they are so strangely done, that I am still a bit uncertain. Of course, their appearance in a temple only adds to the confusion.

    Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 12:03 pm | Permalink
  3. Heifenbrug wrote:

    OH,It’s so China

    Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 5:12 pm | Permalink
  4. What a great and true photo. A few years ago, when I first started reporting on religion in China, a Shanghainese religious leader said something to me along the lines of - “One of the spiritual characteristics of the Chinese people is the ability to believe in two contradictory systems at the same time.” At the time I didn’t give it much thought. But the more time I spend around Chinese religious, and the more I see pictures like this one, I see what he was getting at.

    Friday, February 6, 2009 at 11:35 pm | Permalink
  5. SNR wrote:

    That’s probably because a lot of Chinese aren’t driven ideologically but by more practical means. In other words taking parts of each ideology that overall might be contradictory and patching different parts together to make it work.

    Monday, February 9, 2009 at 2:50 pm | Permalink

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