While paying obeisance to the Caffeine God at Starbucks this morning, I embarked upon some technorati searches to follow up on my post on China exports of religious bling.  The result?  A number of blogs detailing persecution in China, a couple of which were particularly interesting in relation to the BofG.

One observant Christian blogger realized that his Bible was made in China & puzzled over the irony of pastors smuggling in something actually made there. 

Meanwhile, Cherry, a new teen blogger, writes an impassioned post on Falun Dafa in response to folks who call her a Nazi for wearing a swastika necklace.  As she correctly notes, the swastika had a long history as a religious symbol long before the Nazis appropriated it for their nefarious ends,  although the association with the Holocaust has indeed made the swastika rather controversial in the West. 

What happens when a religious symbol is tarnished due to actions that believers abhor?  That's one of many subjects we'll be exploring soon here on the Blingdom of God!