That's not completely true?

So I hardly write about things outside of the goings ons that affect my life, besides when I first started this whole blog thing, mostly because I want to keep things pretty light hearted here. But when I come across things that are just not true, I find I have to write something on it, and that is what Renee found when we were looking through the Beijing Olympics website. On the "Places of Worship" webpage, the Chinese Olympic Organizers note that "China is a country with religious freedom and respects for every religion." They then go to list 5 religions and how one might go about worshipping. Some things to point out is the fact that the 5 religions listed are the only religions recognized by the Chinese government, so if recognizing 5 religions is "every religion" and "religious freedom" then maybe they are telling the truth, but I'll let you decide on that. And if religious freedom looks like being able to worship in government approved worship places with government approved worship materials and books with government oversight, then they are surely very free. Unless you hold a foreign passport, like we do, then it is pretty hard to worship with "freedom." To note, there are many people that come to find the Father in the heavily regulated Christian church in China (not to mention the many more that come to know Him in underground churches), but that goes to the fact of how powerful the Gospel message is.

Anyway, just wanted to get out some truths from the statements you might see leading up to the Olympics.

Also as a completely different side note, I have been reading a lot of doomsday-sounding articles about the US economy and a lot of the media have been fashioning the word "recession" in their articles. Again, I want to keep things light, but go ahead and look up the definition of recession and see if in fact the US is in one (or close to one for that matter), sometimes, even in the US, you have to weary of some of the things being said. Just another thought.