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This only bans outside missionary activities btw, if you're a properly registered church with a local congregation basic missionary work is ok. So the local Jesuit health clinic isn't shutting down as long as the CCPA knows about them

"attempt" here seems to mean "resounding success"

Oh lol the US are so scared they sent 2 hornet sats to camp nearby!

Would be funny for China to just nationalise DeepSeek and make it free for all humanity for the lulz.

She grew up as one.

She grew up Catholic, iirc

You can get away with the first part (it's not just the Shahada, it's literally the first sentence of the Nicene Creed.) but Man is, definitionally for a supposed Catholic, God. ("he was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became Man.") you're literally supposed to genuflect on that line. She's heard this every week since childhood!

None of these assholes are Christian, they neither embrace the "Low Christianity" of charity, humility and forgivness, nor the "High Christianity" of the Logos and the nature of the Divine because none of these people can read or, apparently, listen in mass.

The question is, what happens if too many people start doing things they can't ignore.

Courageous move by Keir Starmer, in the Yes Minister sense.

Seriously though it's just such an absurd overreaction. They hemorrhaging off their own politicians! They're arresting 84 year old upper class priests!

Some kind of King in Yellow I assume.

Best case scenario is Red Vienna, but I think that's unlikely. Nevertheless this IS a win, and the reaction of those in power is heartening. They're frightened and have so much less social capital than they did in 2000.

I know i know he's no communist, but we can throw rocks at social democrats when we're in a position to do so.

Does anyone remember that book Dinotopia about a secret human-dinosaur civilisation? In one scene they had a giant monument to the trilobite, like we might have a dinosaur carving.