Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:40 am
Hanafuridake wrote:Joohan wrote:Japan straight up banned missionaries for entering into the country ( not before executing a number of the missionaries and their converts ). They were pretty intolerant of Christians.
After the missionaries made themselves unwelcome through violating social mores, selling Japanese in the slave trade, burning down temples and shrines, and convincing daimyo to donate feudal land to the Church. Nobunaga paid little attention to the Christians and most of his ire was directed to Buddhist temples and sects which opposed him. Hideyoshi at first simply banned daimyo from handing land away or from forcing farmers of his fief to convert until moving onto harsher measures.
Really, for all of the talk by Christian missionaries about how they face persecution in other countries, they have been their own worst enemies more often than not.
Christianity will typically violate some social more in what ever culture it is first introduced. It was Portuguese merchants who bought and sold the Japanese as slaves, not the missionaries; it was actually feared that such a practice would hinder the proselytization of the missionaries, and so the King of Portugal ordered it to seize. Those temples and shrines were burned down by the command of Japanese daimyos, the Christians didn't just up an torch some pagoda's willy nilly; regardless though, as i've stated before, we've no intention of sharing a platform. And if the daimyo want's to gift over some lands to the Church, then so what? Good for him.