Home visits indoctrinate them against “feudal superstitions,” “anti-scientific beliefs,” and “xie jiao.”
by Liu Wangmin
Mentally ill patients who live at home and their families belong to a very special category. They often find comfort in religion. It seems that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regards this as a danger.
This month of August, the Ganzhou City Public Security Office and Ganzhou Police Station in Jiangxi Province announced on social media that they were conducting visits to mentally ill patients who live at home, teaching them and their families “not to engage in feudal superstitions and to look at their problems scientifically.”
This is clearly understood by those targeted as a propaganda of atheism, which tells them that looking to religion for comfort in their distress is “anti-scientific,” “feudal,” and “superstitious.”
The police also warn the patients and their families that it is always possible that they will be approached by a “xie jiao,” i.e., one of the banned organizations promoting “heterodox teachings” such as Falun Gong or The Church of Almighty God.
In addition to spreading the usual anti-xie-jiao propaganda, the police officers explain to those who have the burden of caring for a mentally ill relative that there is a way to improve their condition. They can always denounce neighbors who are suspected of sympathies for a “xie jiao” and pocket the corresponding reward.
Before leaving the homes, the police read to the targeted families the “Fengxin County Reward Measures for the Public’s Participation in Combating the Illegal and Criminal Activities of Xie Jiao,” commenting that in another part of Jiangxi
Province, Fengxin County, many have already received money for denouncing alleged xie jiao members or sympathizers.
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