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Content: The Chinese government is now tracking virtually 
every social 
movement and behavior of all of its citizens (watch the video below), including who attends 
church, buys Bibles, and where those Bibles are taken. Totalitarian Control
The Chinese government is coupling this Orwellian mass surveillance with a totalitarian "social credit system" that scores and controls the 
behavior and the speech of its citizens. Every Chinese citizem is assigned a social credit 
score that rises and falls with behaviors the government deems good and bad, 
respectively. For example, donating money to a charity the government has 
approved or 
donating blood raises the score, while spreading a rumor or jaywalking lowers 
it. People with high scores get lower interest rate bank loans and discounted utility 
bills, while those with low scores are forbidden from getting loans, getting 
train or flight tickets, and enrolling their children in certain schools. In the (near) future, believing or spreading the "spiritual opium" of 
Christianity, attending "illegal"
underground 
churches, and buying or owning a Bible other than the Communism-friendly "Bible" 
that the Communist Party is currently writing (see
Chinese Bibleand "Sinicization 
of Christianity") are expected to be added as major score-lowering offenses 
to this system, whose penal code is also expected to expand to include prison 
terms. Is Christianity in China doomed? Persecuting Christianity is like throwing water on an oil fire; it spreads 
and expands 
the fire. The intensifying persecution will purify the church in China, 
cut the current crossover traffic between the 
Three Self churchand the
underground 
church, drive true Christians into the latter, reduce the freedom 
of foreign missionaries, and 
may provide renewed impetus for smuggling Biblesinto and clandestine Bible printinginside China.