re: "Xi and top officials pay homage to Mao" (BP, October 29, 2022)
Dear editor,
Freshly ordained into the highest holy orders, of course Xi Jinping, the the newly anointed messenger of the one true, universal and apostolic Chinese Communist Party, flanked by his college of cardinals most resplendent descended upon the "holy land" of Yan'an to pay homage to the divinity(ies) whose graciously bestowed eternal truths benevolently guide himself as he selflessly shepherds with fatherly resolution the devoted flocks along the bounteously paved paths to heaven.
Blindly held dogma? Check.
Magical rites promising eternal prosperity? Check.
Elevation of pure faith over reason and reality? Check and check.
Deities to worship mindlessly, tolerating no others? Double check.
Criminalization of blasphemy, heresy and apostasy? Triple check.
The infallibly righteous and inerrant ideology of Maoism has ascended to full blown religious zealotry, complete with priestly caste dressed to kill, nor is any limit placed on the sufficiency of lesser humans to be sacrificed to protect the faith from inimical reason, sense or justice, past, present or future.
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Rome's Pope Francis, among others similarly immured in their own infallibility, could take the online course.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on October 31, 2022, under the title "Ideology check-list" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2426120/ideology-check-list
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