Thursday, February 17, 2011

Religion and political correctness

This fascinating 2008 article in the Wall Street Journal relates how some temples in Kinmen County, an archipelago within shelling-distance of China, have toned down their anticommunist message in the past few years, ever since tourists from the mainland - rather than ROC soldiers posted there to keep the communists at bay - have become a backbone of the economy. Next time I'm there, I'll make a point of revisiting these shrines to find out the latest.

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