Atheism still China's official doctrine

Religion has very little to do with what is happening in Tibet now, claimed someone in an April 2008 letter to The Sydney Morning Herald.

Atheism is still the official doctrine of China. Its atheism suggests that it is intrinsic rather than incidental to a regime that persecutes even members of quasi religions such as the Falun Gong.

Tibetan serfdom should not be confused with slavery which was practised for centuries in ancient China, or with the status of the medieval serfs of Western Europe who could not be turfed off the land, as happens, at times, to rain-deprived Aussie farmers.