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Karma to Christians for ruining cultures/religions before them? It's damn nice that Japan was able to resist Christianity. Felt really good to walk the cities w

• tecleandor 4y ago
  Certainly there are more than I expected anyway, and seems like Christianity is growing among the young this last years (don't know why exactly) "Christian style" weddings are quite popular there, although are usually done only because they look pretty and probably exotic, foreign, or movie like to them. And in fact it's not unusual to do two ceremonies, one Shinto, and another Christian (I've seen it in some friends), with different clothing and everything. IIRC, legally-wise it doesn't matter, they only care about registering the wedding in the city hall, all the ceremony is just for showing. It's quite interesting to see, anyway, the influence we (Spaniards and our Portuguese neighbors) had when the Jesuits and the Franciscans went for doing their proselytism and stuff. I've been told I look "like the Jesuits from the old paintings" (I don't look typically Spanish, I'm tall, pale, big nose and bearded, but maybe that evokes St. Francis Xavier to them...) I'm not religious, but the cultural side really fascinates me, as how did Portuguese and Spanish words ended in their language way before globalization. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Japanese_words_of_Portuguese_origin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Japanese_words_o... Edit: a completely different case is South Korea, with around a 30% of Christians...