Those of us who visit and live in China know that bibles, in Chinese and English, are readily available in China.
One can legitimately argue between state-sanctioned Christian churches and the underground home churches of evangelicals inside China. But bible smuggling an issue ? Give us a break !
The problem is not in the ready availability of bibles; but in the downright dumb misguided false sense of "victimization" that many in the West see in China....... i.e. hordes of religiously deprived "Christians" waiting for the truth of the Christian Gospel.
Talk about "mi-tian-kung."
And this, folks, is coming from AP wires and their recklessly irresponsible and China-bashing reporters:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080817/ap_on_re_as/china_bibles_confiscated