Cowboy Confessional

Irony is the ultimate entertainment, and today the Chinese government has outdone even itself.  In effect the Godless Communists have proclaimed themselves God.

In an effort to culturally castrate Tibet, Chinese Communist Party Hacks (forgive the quadruple redundancy) have laid their heavy police state hands on Tibetan social systems, transportation, immigration, and even religious practices.  Not content to control Tibetan temporal transactions, China’s chief thugs are now targeting the afterlife.

Buddhists — Tibetan and otherwise — believe in reincarnation, that they will be born again into this world, which stands as the most complete form of auto-masochism ever conceived.  They are particularly fond of hunting down the deceased lamas and upon their reentry into this world, give them immediate employment again as … a lama (imagine holding the same job for a couple of thousand years).

This causes China’s Chief Chumps no end of angst as any garden variety lama will outlive every member of the Central Committee, the Communist Party, and China itself.  Tibetans are a patient lot, and willing to wait for instructions from their lamas even if it requires waiting for them to be born, and born, and born …

So the Chinese government is now regulating reincarnation. The Administration for Religious Affairs will specify “the procedures by which one is to reincarnate.” It will be verboten “to identify the child reincarnation of the Dalai Lama” without the approval of Chinese authorities.  Seems the Dali lama might wish to be reincarnated outside of China, which would prevent the Central Committee from controlling him in the future, and thus controlling the will of pious Tibetans.  Thus the Chinese government will undoubtedly pick some random newborn whelped within Tibetan borders to be the “official” Dali Lama.

And the Tibetan people will ignore him.

In my short life time, I have never seen a human — much less a committee — challenge God.  I fear this may well be the one thing that ticks off the Old Man, and he may well rain a little Hell Fire down on Beijing.  This would be an overall Good Thing.  Not only would it kill off a few communist (which is always the right and proper course of action) but it would also demonstrate that God does exist and he has limited patience.  That would make Richard Dawkins piss himself, which would be almost as entertaining as a meeting the the Chinese Central Committee.

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