Why is religion so demonized in Japan? Are christian knights really the symbol of all evil?
Why is religion so demonized in Japan? Are christian knights really the symbol of all evil?
Blake Flores
Tyler Bell
Christians are subversive troublemakers who had to be killed for the good of the realm
Owen Sanchez
>religion
>Japan
>christian knights
all are subhuman
>Are christian knights really the symbol of all evil?
yes, and there's nothing wrong with portraying this
Brandon Sanchez
>tips
Mason Ward
But why Christianity-themed soldiers only? What about, say, middle-eastern armies?
Adrian Stewart
I don't know what the context for this panel is, but I think that claiming that Christianity is "demonized" in Japan is a bit silly. There's tons of works where Christianity is not used as an antagonistic figure at all. Usually a lot of imagery isn't really meant to be taken seriously, because it is just incidental or made for entertainment. If you're a Japanese person making something for fun about the middle ages, the purpose usually isn't to care about accuracy or implications, but just to make something work or feel cool.
Sebastian Gray
Legitimate answer? Cause it's easy to make fun of something people widely recognize and is already disliked for being true
Zachary Gomez
Long story short, Christianity was pretty much singlehandedly responsible for Japan's isolationist period. It was intensely disruptive from a moral, social, and political standpoint and the Portuguese saying "we'll only sell these war-winning weapons and medicines to you if you abandon your faith and join ours, BRB gonna preach to your uppity peasants about how all those ancestors you revere are in hell because they died unshriven." won them no favor. The only reason they ever got a foot in the door was "at least they aren't profligate hypocrites like the Buddhists.“
Joseph Reed
Wait, wasn't that the jews?
David Carter
they don't give a shit about Christianity
so they'll portray it in a far more negative light than a western work would