As Feng Shui and other traditional beliefs make a comeback among top officials of the Chinese communist regime, sixty years of mandatory atheism is showing its cracks.
In the Chinese regime’s ongoing disciplinary campaign, many of the thousands of officials sacked for corruption were also caught engaging in activities decidedly inimical to the Communist Party’s materialist ideology—fortune telling, consulting Buddhist monks and Taoist masters, Feng Shui, and the like.
According to a Feb. 4 commentary published in regime mouthpiece People’s Daily, some communist leaders “consult neither Marx nor Lenin, but instead various ’masters’” when they face challenges in their lives and careers.
