That the Chinese government is removing crosses and crucifixes across China should not come as a surprise. [1] It has been on-going, with articles being written about it in 2014 [2] and 2015 [3].
Is the Chinese government against the teachings of Jesus that it has to dismantle the symbol of Christianity, or is it against the politics of Christianity that it disagrees with? I would think it is the latter since the many different institutions under the umbrella of Christianity have become political, and many who call themselves Christians probably spend a lot more time and energy on matters of money and policy than in prayer and repentance.
God is love, but there is no love lost when it comes to differences in beliefs and practices. Even within the Catholic church itself, there is no consensus. The latest 256-page apostolic exhortation, the Joy of Love, with 391 footnotes released on Friday, April 8, 2016, [4] is as controversial as the issues it addresses. The document can be downloaded [5] for reading should one have time for triteness.
In the end, what is important is how often one has loved purely, deeply and selflessly [6], not a pope's exhortation, not the cross or the crucifix adorning a church.
[1] http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/659545/Horror-as-China-tears-down-thousands-of-crucifixes-in-crude-bid-to-eradicate-Christiani
[2] http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/07/25/as-government-tears-down-church-crosses-chinese-christians-rise-to-defend-their.html
[3] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/01/china-is-tearing-down-crosses.html
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[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/world/europe/rather-than-rules-popes-document-gives-license-to-adapt.html?_r=0
[5] http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20160319_amoris-laetitia.html
[6] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2022:36-40
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