religion - the hostility between religious groups

Jeff adds a few of his own thoughts after reading the excellent piece by Joseph Kahn on religion at the country side.
"The dramatic tension in Kahn's narrative is a little more complex than what the human rights groups used to offer," writes Jeff, "since the most bitter hostility is clearly not between banned religious groups and the state but among the groups themselves. This isn't news to Chinese Christians, of course. More than a decade ago I had a long talk with the Reverend Dennis Balcombe, the pastor of Hong Kong's Revival Christian Church and one of the most aggressive foreign missionaries in mainland China. Balcombe didn't mince words about the legal repression that underground Christians faced, but he was at least as worried about "sects" and deviant teachings: he saw the Shouters in particular (a charismatic movement based in Henan, where Balcombe did most of his early mission work) as one of the more dangerous groups."