This article just reads like racist (and sexist) fear mongering.
They describe a bunch or regular people just living their lives and then accuse them of being spies just for being (or being perceived to be) Chinese.
This, in particular, stood out to me:
Mulvenon also described how, at a business conference on Chinese investment risks hosted last week in Virginia, two attractive Chinese women showed up and attempted to gain entry. “We didn’t let them in,” he said. “But they had all the information [about the event] and everything else.”
So they hosted a conference and blocked people from attending just because they thought those people were Chinese.
No actual evidence given to back up this action; just straight up persecuting people based on their race and ethnicity.
EDIT: I just went back over the article again to more carefully scrutinize it and make sure I was judging it fairly. It gives absolutely no examples anywhere of any woman stealing secrets.
The only example it did give of stealing secrets was a non-Chinese man, and there's no indication anywhere that he even had a romantic partner, let alone one that was a Chinese woman.
The entire article really is just a massive propaganda piece with bigots pushing their prejudices against interracial and intercultural relationships.
You're giving transphobic bigots too much credit; no one reads a verse saying that eunuchs aren't allowed in the temple and infers that it's a sin to be trans.
They aren't reading the Bible and then developing prejudices based on what it says; that's not what's happening here.
Instead, what they are doing is starting with the prejudices they already have and then fishing through the Bible trying to find anything that even remotely matches so they can twist it into a post-hoc justification.
In this specific case, that verse doesn't justify their position in any way shape or form.
The only reason anyone would interpret that as condemnation of trans people is if they're actively looking for excuses to condemn them.
First off, that verse is talking about eunuchs rather than trans people, which is actually a really important distinction.
Further, that verse doesn't even say that being a eunuch is bad; it just says they're not allowed to enter the temple. which, for what it's worth, hasn't even existed for thousands of years.
Moreover, it is immediately followed by a verse saying the same thing about anyone whose ancestors (up to 10 generations back) were illegitimate children.
So, you can't interpret it as saying that it's a sin to be trans unless you also interpret it as saying it's a sin to have great-great-great grandparents who weren't married.
You're right that neither the Bible nor any other religious text is a legitimate reason to persecute people, but that's not what's going on here.
They aren't motivated by what the Bible teaches, they're motivated by bigotry and performing mental acrobatics to try to find anything in the Bible that they can somehow twist into an excuse for their bigotry.
There’s no other translation for that word, but there apparently is a theory that maybe the original Greek was wrong and they meant to say “rope” which is spelled very similarly to “camel” in ancient Greek: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Christianity
That would be a very convenient theory if you were a rich man who wanted to hoard your wealth, but otherwise I don’t see any reason to assume the original Greek word was wrong.
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