Leftists have been trying to stamp out Christianity since the French Revolution, when moonbats “suppressed the Church, abolished the Catholic monarchy, nationalized Church property, exiled 30,000 priests, and killed hundreds more.” But it’s like playing Whac-a-Mole. You smack it down in one country (e.g., by imposing a $1.2 million fine for not complying with Covid hysteria) and it pops up in another — sometimes where you might least expect it:

The Rev. Johnnie Moore, a member of the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom, says, “I not only predict the conversion of China to Christianity — it’s much further along than people realize and than the Chinese want to admit. And they’re underestimating it.”

Conservative estimates put the number of Christians at around 100 million.

But Moore believes the number could be as high as 150 million or even 175 million.

Despite generations of repression, there are probably more Christians behind the Bamboo Curtain than there are in blue states in the USA, a traditionally Christian nation.

The leftists running China are reacting to the growth of Christianity just the way Democrats will once they have the political leverage:

In China, some 2,000 church spires and crosses have been torn down. Pastors have been locked up. Bibles have been confiscated.

Bibles have even been rewritten to create more allegiance to the government rather than to Jesus. And hi-tech AI surveillance is meant to intimidate and coerce believers into submission.

Not good enough, ChiCommies. The maniacs conducting the Reign of Terror couldn’t stamp it out. Stalin couldn’t stamp it out. Not even the powerful LGBT lobby can stamp it out, despite employing violence.

Says Moore, “As one theologian once said, five or six centuries ago, the church is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer. And that’s definitely what’s happening in China.”

There may always be moonbattery. But there will also always be hope.

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.