Beijing (AsiaNews) - China is in a deep spiritual crisis because it has been withered by Maoism and Dengism. This is another thesis put forward by Prof. Liu Peng, Academic of Social Sciences in Beijing and an expert on religion, according to whom the weakness of Chinese power is the lack of faith and freedom of religion. In this third installment, Liu Peng analyzes the history of China, the discrete freedom during the feudal period and the spread of Maoism with the promises of land ownership, after having driven out the landlords, and the presentation of the class struggle as a religion and Mao as its god. The human and economic failure of Maoism has led to the openings of Deng and the emphasis on economic transformation and "getting rich" as the goal of life (another pseudo-religion). But even this fails to satisfy man's desire spiritual. To date, China is still asking: What do we believe?
Read the article here: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/After-the-failed-religions-of-Mao-and-Deng,-Ch...
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