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China bans Olympic athletes from bringing a Bible

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by hondo, Nov 5, 2007.

  1. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10868

    Just out of curiousity, will the ban extend to the Koran?
     
  2. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Oh, that's not going to fly at all... no way that holds up.
     
  3. Pastor

    Pastor Active Member


    This is a load of fucking shit. They have Christian churches over there. How the fuck would they ban the Bible?
     
  4. Twoback

    Twoback Active Member

    I call b.s. on this story.
    (Hey, I was the first! Sort of.)
     
  5. Beaker

    Beaker Active Member

    Agreed-I would also question the veracity of the story. The organizers would have to know something like this wouldn't fly.
     
  6. Pastor

    Pastor Active Member


    Yes. I should have added, "This story is completely and utterly full of shit at every single level."

    The story is certainly false. It is incorrect. I see people walking around with crosses around their neck all the time when I'm there. The churches exist. They don't have the congregation sizes, but they exist.
     
  7. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    You lost me at:
     
  8. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Hey, all I did was post the story.
     
  9. Pastor

    Pastor Active Member


    A completely ridiculous story that is obviously false.
     
  10. markvid

    markvid Guest

    A load of BS.
    Google the Italian paper they mention.
    In this shocking development, it doesn't exist.
    Must be the same publishers as Bill O'Reilly's Paris Business Review.
     
  11. terrier

    terrier Well-Known Member

    Given the Chinese government's attitude toward human rights, they never should've been given the games in the first place.
    Chilling story in last week's Time about young, affluent Chinese urban dwellers who don't give a damn about democracy as long as they can keep their iPods, snowboards, fancy vacations, etc. And the Chinese leadership keeps them onboard by continuing to provide bread and circuses (one young woman's attempt to justify the Tiannemen Square massacre is really sickening).
    That story made me want to see Mao rise from the dead and organize the peasants.
     
  12. sportschick

    sportschick Active Member



    Further proof that Hondo likes the throw shit agains the wall.
     
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