by Huang Xia
(from Hong Kong, China)
For
many years, in the hearts of the people of all countries, the BBC, for taking not fearing
power, upholding impartiality, reporting the truth of the fact
objectively, respecting
religious belief, and so on, as its aim, is judged one of the media most
respected worldwide. But
on August 14, 2014, a
report in the BBC Chinese website greatly disappoints many net friends
who deeply trust the BBC. Particularly, some parts in this article that are not
objective make
the sensible net friends begin to red light the trust towards the BBC.
As the
Christians of the Church of Almighty God, we are shocked by this report of
the BBC even more greatly. Next let’s look at the problems in this report together.
I. The
title of this article is “A Report on the
Spot: The Chinese Cult that Kills ‘Demons.’” Before writing this article, has
the author Carrie really
made an on-the-spot investigation in the Church of Almighty God? If not, how much can this
article be trusted? We
believers in God mainly strive to have our life disposition transformed through reading
Almighty God’s word and understanding the truth. God requires us to have
conscience and sense in our living out, to be forbearing, patient, and
tolerant, and so on, and
in the end to live out the likeness of a real man. Whether others are “demons” or
not is not the subject of our life entering in and it has nothing to do with
us. So,
with us there is not such an absurd saying of “killing demons.” But the two men
mentioned in the article both say that
the believers in
Almighty God are “killing demons.” This runs counter to God’s
teaching to us. I
would like to ask the author these questions: When you published this article, have you learned the purpose of
our believing in God in the Church of Almighty God? Have you ever contacted the
Christians of the Church of Almighty God? Have you made a practical research about what Zhang Lidong and Wang
Jiannan said? If
your answers to all these questions are “no,” is it suitable for you to use “a
report on the spot” in the article? Such an act of the BBC has not
only gone against the
tenet of being objective and impartial in managing its media, which it had
always upheld, but it is a very irresponsible act to the public.
II. In
this report, except
for Zhang Lidong known to all, who is the leading role in the “5/28 Zhaoyuan Incident,”
through which the CCP wantonly defames and frames the Church of
Almighty God, there appears another so-called victim named Wang Jiannan who gives
some “evidence.” Yet
those who are careful will find that in the report, only Wang Jiannan
himself speaks from beginning to end, without any concrete evidence at
all. In the report,
Wang firmly says that his sister and mother are members of the Church of
Almighty God. According
to the independent reporting style of the BBC, why hasn’t it gone to check with
Wang’s sister since
she is in prison? Besides,
he says that they have believed for about 20 years; yet she killed her father on the
excuse of “killing a demon.” This
is completely contrary to the word of Almighty God. Then their identities are
suspect. So, only with a
picture of a man’s mourning for the dead before a grave, it plants all the problems on
the Church of Almighty God. Is
this convincing? According
to the author’s reasoning, shouldn’t
it be concluded that the suffering of all those who mourn before graves is caused by the “killing demons”
of the Church of Almighty God? Is such evidence tenable? The BBC says in its tenet of
“trust”: “Trust is the
foundation of the BBC: We
are independent, impartial and honest. We are committed to achieving
the highest standards of due accuracy and impartiality and strive to avoid knowingly or
materially misleading our audiences.” Then is the BBC’s deed keeping the promise of striving
to achieve accuracy in reporting? Or is it upholding its tenet of not
misleading its audiences?
III.
We are perplexed about the
two video screenshots quoted in the article. We all know that to learn about the content of an
article or a film, we
should at least read this article or watch this film, and then we can give our
opinions. However, in this
report, it only selects and quotes two screenshots from the two films of the Church
of Almighty God, and
it adds its own opinions and comments about them without respecting the original
purposes of the authors and the Church of Almighty God to make these two films. Moreover, it misleads people
onto a pathway contrary to the original intentions of the film makers. Such misleading doesn’t respect
the fact, much less care about the public feelings. The BBC says in its tenet of
“Serving the Public Interests”:
“We
seek to report stories of significance to our audiences. We will be
rigorous in establishing the truth of the story and well informed when
explaining it.” This report of the BBC not only hasn’t served the public
interests or reported the
fact, but on the
contrary it has brought loss to the public interests: Before watching the films, they have been infused with a
wrong viewpoint. Isn’t
this thoughtless and improper? Besides, as to whether the
viewpoints in the article are accordant with the facts, the public can draw a conclusion
only after making an investigation themselves. If the BBC really upholds the tenet of “transparency” it
claims, shouldn’t it
publish the links of these two films on the Internet and let the public judge
them themselves, only which can be said to be transparent?
Many
people in the world know that the CCP government cruelly
maltreats dissidents: In
the world-shocking “6/4 Incident” in 1989, the CCP used tanks and machine
guns to suppress the
defenseless students who sat in the Tiananmen Square petitioning for democracy; in the Tibet issue, in order to maintain its
dictatorship the CCP created false cases and slaughtered the Tibetan
people bloodily, and
all at once the blood flowed like rivers in the Tibet. Now, in China so many people
have no way to live because
their houses are forcibly torn down by the CCP, and when they petition with
grievances, they are arrested and put in prison and secretly killed; and so many believers in
Almighty God are imprisoned illegally by the CCP and are maimed or killed; … As a western mainstream media,
you should see that not
only the people in the whole Mainland China are disclosing the CCP, but the people of various
countries and the media in the West have all seen the cruelty of the
CCP’s fighting the dissidents and especially persecuting the
religion. It’s no wonder
that the western democratic countries call China a country in the axis of evil. Under the ruling of the CCP, the
Chinese people have no human rights at all. As for such an evil party, haven’t you, the BBC, seen it through? An agency who bears the glory
and image of Britain and its people actually turns into the CCP’s
mouthpiece and speaks for it at such a time. We are greatly shocked by it! BBC, what qualification do you
have to stand as a star
in the ranks of impartial media of the world?
Why
does the BBC, even in a matter that everyone with a discerning eye can see
through, go against its aim
of managing the media and
speak against the fact? Is
it motivated by money or forced by power? Is the BBC a media or a ruling
party? In June this year,
Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier, paid a sudden visit to Britain and signed commercial contracts
with Britain worth 14 billion pounds. This makes it very natural for
people to link that with this BBC report. The BBC, a media widely
recognized by the world and
deeply respected by its fellows, actually discards the dignity of
speaking the truth for the sake of money and interests, which is really incredible! We can only say this with
sadness: BBC, you have lost
your former aura of an “impartial” media.
EasternLightning | TheChurch
of Almighty God came into
being because of the work of the returned Lord Jesus—the end-time
Christ, “AlmightyGod”—in
China, and it isn’t established by any person. Christ is the truth,
the way, and the life. After reading God’s word, you will see that
God has appeared.
