[[File:Flag of the PRC.png|thumbnail|250px200px|right|In 1955, [[China|Chinese]] communist leader Zhou Enlai declared, "We Communists are atheists".<ref>Noebel, David, The Battle for Truth, Harvest House, 2001.</ref> In 2015, the Communist Party of China reaffirmed that members of their party must be atheists.<ref>[httphttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/china-communist-party-atheism-zhejiang-ban-religious-members-christianity_n_6599722.html China's Communist Party Bans Believers, Doubles Down On Atheism]</ref>]] According to a 2012 Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup International Association (WIN/GIA) poll, 47% of Chinese people were convinced atheists, and a further 30% were not religious. In comparison, only 14% considered themselves to be religious.<ref>{{cite news|title= Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism |publisher= [[WIN/GIA|Gallup]]|date=|url= http://www.winmr.com/web/files/news/14/file/14.pdf |accessdate=2012-11-28}}</ref> See: [[China and atheism]]
Several researchers — for example, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas, former Canadian parliamentarian David Kilgour, and the investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann estimate that tens of thousands of [[Falun Gong]] prisoners in [[communism|communist]] [[China]] have been killed to supply a financially lucrative trade in human organs and cadavers, and that these human rights abuses may be ongoing concern.<ref>[http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/slaughter-mass-killings-organ-harvesting Review of: Ethan Gutmann, “''The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem''”, (Prometheus Books, 2014).]</ref>
[[Atheism]] is a an integral part of Marxist-LeninistMarxist–Leninist/[[Mao Zedong|Maoist ]] communist ideology (see: [[Atheism and communism]]). In 1955, [[China|Chinese]] communist leader Zhou Enlai declared, "We Communists are atheists".<ref>Noebel, David, The Battle for Truth, Harvest House, 2001.</ref> In 2015, the Communist Party of China reaffirmed that members of their party must be atheists.<ref>[httphttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/china-communist-party-atheism-zhejiang-ban-religious-members-christianity_n_6599722.html China's Communist Party Bans Believers, Doubles Down On Atheism]</ref>
The atheistic communist regime of China has a long-standing track record of persecuting religious believers. In 1999, the publication [[Christian Century]] reported that "[[China]] has persecuted religious believers by means of harassment, prolonged detention, and incarceration in prison or 'reform-through-labor' camps and police closure of places of worship." In 2003, owners of [[Bible]]s in China were sent to prison camps and 125 Chinese churches were closed.<ref>[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35818 "China sends Bible owners to labor camp"] (November 26, 2003). ''WorldNetDaily''.</ref> China continues to practice religious oppression today.<ref>[http://theworldnow.wordpress.com/tag/around-the-world/asia/china/ "China: Christians tortured while under arrest"] (September 27, 2006). ''The World Now''. </ref>
However, despite Chinese communists efforts to suppress [[religion]], [[Christianity]] is experiencing rapid growth in China (see: [[Growth of Christianity in China]]).
== Atheists/agnostics/evolutionist evolutionists and bioethics/ethics ==[[Image:Lysenko.jpg|right|thumbnail|150px|[[Trofim Denisovich Lysenko]] was the father of [[Lysenkoism]]. ]]
Atheists/[[agnosticism|agnostics]]/[[evolution]]ists have a poor track record in terms of bioethics/[[ethics]] as can been seen in the articles listed below:
*[[Evolutionary racism]]
*[[Social Darwinism]]
*[[Atheism and bestiality]]
*[[Joseph Stalin's ape-men experiments]]
*[[Moral failures of Atheism and the suppression of science]] *[[Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation]] *[[Suppression of alternatives to evolution]] *[[Lysenkoism]] *[[List of atheist and agnostic pseudosciences]] *[[Atheism and cannibalism]] *[[Atheist populationand immorality]]
*[[Atheism and morality]]
*[[Atheistic communism and torture]]
*[[Communist China and baby eating]]
== External links ==
*[http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33145 China's Gruesome Organ Harvest] by Ethan Gutmann
== References ==
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