What the hell is wrong with us?
(warning: MAJOR political-social rant ahead. I had to write about this or it would be stewing with me all day.)
Oh yes, we said. We need to have the Olympic games hosted in China. Okay, so Chinese officials will imprison anyone for many years for the crime of owning a bible. They force their women to have abortions rather than exceed the one-child limit in most districts. They imprison Catholic bishops (ie, ones not appointed by the state) and beat and starve them for refusing to propagandize. Their factories (thanks in no small part to our corporations who want a bigger profit!) have their workers work for slave wages. When girls are adopted by non-Chinese parents from an orphanage, the girl who will be adopted is fattened up (while others in the home are deprived of food) lest the Westerners see exactly how bad it is. (I have friends who adopted from China, and when they saw this happening, they actually took all four girls from the group home because they couldn't bear to see it go on.) Disagree openly--even peacefully--with the government? Prison time at best. Or you may "disappear." But hey, to suggest that they quit it already with the massive human rights violations would be, well, MEAN. Or something. Instead, let's give them a stamp of frickin' approval and host the Olympics there. (Just be sure the athletes don't try to bring a bible into the country. Because doing so means that you are barred from entry FOREVER.) Oh, how very multicultural we are! Let's all pat ourselves on the back. In the meantime, this is going on. Don't click on that link unless you have a strong stomach and a box of tissues.
Hello? Olympic committee? I really hope you feel that this multiculturalism stuff is worth these animals dying horrible deaths so that the city looks nice for the foreign visitors. I'd argue that those responsible for that decision should be forced to go through what those cats are going through. Lock the damn committee up in cages without so much as room to turn around, and let them die horrible deaths of horrible infections. Oh, fear not; I wouldn't do that. But there is a very special place in hell for those who make such decisions and then pretend ignorance of the results. Bastards.
I have to go hug my cats now. And I really need to stop reading/watching/listening to the news.
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One day, he came before the congregation and told us a little bit more about the struggles that his wife is going through. He said that she is an atheist, but not by choice, because in mainland China, religion is actively discouraged.
Ker Ning(that is her name), recently lost her mother and has recently learned that her father has Lou Gehrig's disease. She flew back to China to be with him and our Church friends sent some meds as well. Unfortunately, the meds were lost during the snowstorm that China had that month.
At any rate, Ker Ning, knowing that we believed in the Almighty God, asked us to pray for her and her father, even though, she herself does not understand faith,
I have not heard from Ker Ning in about a month, so I will let you know how things are going.
I am partial to cats as well, and I definitely disagree with inhumane treatment of both animals and people.
The Chinese government is a well known violator of human rights, I myself can't see the reason why the committee agreed to go there.