Christians in America speak ominously of a “war on Christmas.” This war seems to consist mainly of fights over the appropriate placement of manger scenes and the kind of holiday greeting you’ll hear from your Target cashier. This does not qualify as a war. It has risen to the level of a quarrel, maybe even a dispute, but it does warrant as dramatic a label as “war.”
If you want to know what a real war on Christmas, and indeed on Christianity itself, looks like, turn to China. Christians in Hong Kong wore black to church this past weekend to protest the persecution of their brothers and sisters by the Chinese communist authorities. President Xi Jinping has been organizing raids on churches across the country. Last week, a church in Guangzhou was shutdown and hundreds of books were confiscated. A week before that, another church was invaded and dozens of worshipers were arrested. They were then tortured and starved.
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