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Handout #252

Anti-Christian tract of a Chinese secret society around 1875

Accursed be these Europeans, these missionary dogs or these governors of dogs who come to preach a barbarous religion and destroy the holy wisdom, who profane and defame the holy Confucius, although they have not studied the first page of a book. Heaven can no longer tolerate them and the earth refuses to bear them; let us strike them, and send them to meditate eternally in the depths of hell. May their tongues be cut out because they seduce the masses by their lies and their hypocrisy has thousand means of tearing out the heart ... Let us throw their bodies in the desert to be food for dogs. In Les Missions catholiques, 22 October, 1875. 

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