The West is Turning Into China

Whenever I say the West is turning into China, invariably there will be some who say "It's not that bad." And it isn't that bad yet for a couple of reasons, the main one being the people in charge do not have the unrestricted power of the CCP in China. In other ways, the West is worse off because Westerners cannot face the evil within their own governments. It is difficult to admit your own people are as bad and sometimes worse than a regime you've been programmed to hate. (It's also near impossible for the Woke to recognize that they're the moral equivalent of the Nazis, but that will come in time.)

What is going on in Canada with priests thrown in prison and churches fenced off is exactly like what happens in China.

Now in the U.S., four of the Supreme Court justices (one of whom is a Bush the Younger appointee) ruled that the government can also ban house churches...as they do in China.

The Hill: Supreme Court says California must allow in-home prayer meetings

The Supreme Court late Friday said that California must lift its coronavirus-era restrictions on in-home prayer meetings and other forms of home-based religious gatherings.

In an order from the court, five conservative justices wrote against rules in most parts of the state that limit indoor social gatherings to no more than three households, while different restrictions apply to places such as schools and churches.

“California treats some comparable secular activities more favorably than at-home religious exercise, permitting hair salons, retail stores, personal care services, movie theaters, private suites at sporting events and concerts, and indoor restaurants to bring together more than three households at a time,” the justices said.

Additionally, the justices noted that a lower court in its ruling “did not conclude that those activities pose a lesser risk of transmission than applicants’ proposed religious exercise at home.”

Amazing that this decision wasn't 9-0, but the America that was is long gone. As a Westerner, I have a different expectation in the West and in a supposedly free state. China is an authoritarian dictatorship, nominally atheistic communism, plus thousands of years of authoritarian government. Thus when I see this going on in California and Canada, and four justices (including one nominated by a Republican president) assenting to it, it is a far greater violation of norms and escalation of tyranny, than when China fences off an illegal church before bulldozing it.

I do not want to speak openly about my experiences, but I can only say that in my time in China, I saw Christian persecution first hand. And honestly, I cannot really tell the difference from what is going on in the USA. The only difference I can cite would be the U.S. elites aren't trying to eradicate Christianity, but then I can go to things like BLM and transgenderism that are more openly hostile, if not in name to Christianity, to its teachings. That is, the CCP which openly says churches must be CCP approved and puts "illegal" priests in jail, is in its totality less anti-Christian than elite-supported organizations and cultural trends in the West. (e.g. BLM says it wants to destroy the nuclear family...China has policies that encourage the nuclear family.) Yes, you will not be arrested for possessing a Bible in the USA and in certain circumstances you could be arrested in China, but that I have to get into such policy minutae to highlight the differences says far more about the descent of the West than the historically authoritarian nature of Chinese government.