Comments on: The Olympics are around the corner.

By: jonah

jonah — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:03:17 +0000

That would have been part of the state-controlled catholic church. There are two church denominations in China that are state-controlled and therefore not oppressed.

But the church does what the government tells it to do, the priests teach what the government tells them too, etc.

Christians (and catholics) who do not want to be in a church that is government controlled and run are oppressed.

By: Mom

Mom — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:49:25 +0000

I attended Mass at a catholic church three times while in Beijing last october. I even met a city official and his baby there. So, catholics do not seem to be oppressed there.

By: joel

joel — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:56:58 +0000

its cheating assuming its factual… but regarding the boycotts, there were rumblings and some mild protests around the world, especially during the torch tour. but the line i seem to keep hearing is “lets not politicize the olympics” or “its about celebrating the world, not dividing it, etc…. but this time its china. who are china’s clear enemies, other than those internal? with moscow 80 and LA 84, the lines were clear. the cold war divided the US and the USSR and all their allies and you could jump onto that bandwagon easily… i think your comparison to berlin 36 is a better observation.

By: jonah

jonah — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:20:24 +0000

Using wikipedia is cheating! But you are right.

So why haven’t there been any boycotts this time around? I can’t see that the current chinese regime has cleaner hands than the old soviet one.

By: joel

joel — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:46:57 +0000

moscow 1980? boycotted by quite a few countries, according to wikipedia…