Friday, June 06, 2025

In Nagasaki Islands, Hidden Christians Are Dying Out

IKITSUKI, Japan (AP) -- On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan 's Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God. In a special room about the size of a tatami mat is a scroll painting of a kimono-clad Asian woman. She looks like a Buddhist Bodhisattva holding a baby, but for the faithful, this is a concealed version of Mary and the baby Jesus. Another scroll shows a man wearing a kimono covered with camellias, an allusion to John the Baptist's beheading and martyrdom. There are other objects of worship from the days when Japan's Christians had to hide from vicious persecution, including a ceramic bottle of holy water from Nakaenoshima, an island where Hidden Christians were martyred in the 1620s. Little about the icons in the tiny, easy-to-miss room can be linked directly to Christianity -- and that's the point.

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Good article about culture.

Comments

I have no idea if this is correct or not... will ck further:

backtojerusalem.com

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-06 10:30 AM

www.google.com

en.m.wikipedia.org

www.oxfordreference.com

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-06 10:37 AM

The Hidden Christians piece was fascinating. The post WW2 world did it for so many of those rural, isolated, communal outfits with commonly shared beliefs of their own. Some continue, usually with admixtures of older and newer forms and norms to accommodate changing realities. It's a development related the basic theme from earlier times: how you gonna keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paree?

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-06 01:55 PM

SILENCE

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-06 03:05 PM

Book and movie(s).

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-06 03:06 PM

good riddance :)

christians, muslims, jews...all of the nonsense. farking idiots, all ya'all.

the world will be a better place when y'all nut jobs give up - and your offspring embrace science and logic.

#6 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-06-06 10:03 PM

Considering that there are Nobel Prize Winners in Physics who are agnostics, atheists, and theists, some assumptions about who can embrace science and logic may not be what people expect.

www.google.com

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-06 10:21 PM

www.johnlennox.org

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-06 10:33 PM

If it wasn't for monks we wouldn't have champagne, so...

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-07 11:07 AM

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