TO MOTHER MARY IN HEAVEN, TOO
December 24, 2009 was a good day for Japan's Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama and U.S. President Mr. Barack Obama, for both cleared the day out of a potential crisis of any sort.
Personally and humbly, I am all right, sirs.
SECTION I: GREAT IS THE LORD
Today, December 25, Japanese people are working as usual all over Japan, since December 25 is not a national holiday at all.
Even so-called Christians in Japan are working with others as usual.
Generally speaking Japanese Christians less drink, less smoke, and less gamble.
However, if you graduate from an elite school of whatever sort in Japan, you are not supposed and expected to become a clergyman or a priest at all.
In Japan, generally speaking, a Christian pastor is not regarded as an institutional elite in the society such as a lawmaker or politician, a lawyer or judge, a medical doctor, a certified public accountant, a professor or scientist, a high-ranking bureaucrat, an elite corporate employee, a successful businessman, a successful entrepreneur manager, a leader of a successful social body (including a notable Buddhist or Shintoism body), a successful critic, a successful sportsmen, a successful artist, a successful TV personality and journalist, and so on.
For example, if you graduate from one of ex-Imperial Universities, such as the University of Tokyo, you are not expected to be a Christian priest, a second-class intellectual profession in Japan, such as a teacher in a primary, middle, or high school without an esteem.
But, most of Protestant priests in Japan are very proud if they have any connection with a Christian church in America. They think that they deserve respect from other Japanese since they have connection with an American Christian church. But, it is just like a Protestant priest in a developing country somewhere in the world.
Yet, Japanese Catholics are more proud. Japanese Catholic clergymen think the Vatican is more authentic than, say, the University of Tokyo or the Japanese Government. And, as they are a member of the Vatican, they think they must be respected as much as elite Japanese are. But, it is just like a Catholic priest in a developing country somewhere in the world.
Nonetheless Japanese Protestant Christians and Catholic Christians are not criminals having more trust in and loyalty to American Christian Churches and the Vatican, respectively (cf. Chinese laws and regulations).
If American Christian Churches and the Vatican come to respect perfectly the God Almighty as He requests, Japanese Christians will surely follow suit.
From a standpoint of an ordinary Japanese, which is I, great is Lord Jesus, since He allowed for introduction of Christianity into the Japanese society and history, so that the Japanese may complement their religious merit, which Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shintoism alone cannot do.
In this context, Japan is critically unique.
It is so, for Japan is the only nation in the world that is based on the Buddhist culture, the Confucius culture, the Shinto culture, and the Western (Christian) culture virtually.
SECTION II: MAN IS BORN TO PRAISE GOD
Animals are not born to praise God.
But, man is born to praise the God.
Buddhism teaches not to harm others; Confucianism teaches not to lose respect to a man; and Shintoism teaches to revere ancestors, which is a subset of the concept of praising the God Almighty.
If somebody harms others, loses respect to a man, and does not revere his ancestors while calling himself a Christian, it proves that religion Christianity is not perfect at all. Otherwise, he is damaging Christianity regardless of his consciousness.
The term "Christian" or "Christianity" must undergo a review someday so as to recommend non use or else, because honor of Lord Jesus might rest upon it to any degree.
SECTION III: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, and Roman Civilizations
Where had the expertise and technical skills ancient Egyptians had gone?
Where had the expertise and technical skills ancient Indus people had gone?
Where had the expertise and technical skills ancient Romans had gone?
Pyramids never contributed to modern science and engineering.
City planning established in the Indus valley never contributed to modern science and engineering.
Civil and military engineering Romans had developed never directly contributed to modern science and engineering.
They had all gone as they were monopolized by specific groups of the elite or confined to their own kingdom.
Even for the Roman Civilization, when its military structure, a main bearer of technology, was destroyed by invaders, its tradition, knowledge, and expertise in technology and management was lost, since Roman legions were a main bearer of technology.
Had not been for the Vatican, Europe should have been even today backward areas or subject to Islamic power.
However, something is different for the Mesopotamia Civilization. It is so, since the Old Testament identifies Mesopotamia as its deepest root.
Accordingly, the deepest root of Christmas is in Mesopotamia as I once discussed regarding the number of days in a year.
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There is no such a fool in Japan that does not know what December 25 means.
If somebody said to you that he or she did not know what December 25 meant, you must not judge the person to be a fool.
Rather, the person thinks it is safe to pretend to be a fool, as you look dangerously foolish.
Or, the person is suggesting that you are as foolish as a fool who does not know what December 25 means.
Yet, people know they need somebody to respect as they cannot stand living in an all-out ugly world.
People need to respect Christmas.
(In America, now 3,000 or more homeless teenagers are celebrating Christmas:
"National studies indicate a surprisingly high rate of homelessness among youth. Researchers estimate that between 5 and 7 percent [between 1 million and 1.5 million adolescents] of the general teenage population experiences at least one episode of homelessness each year.
- http://endhomelessness.org/section/policy/focusareas/youth"
I cannot help but extend "Merry Christmas" to them! But, don't go around. They said the bad moon is rising. Well, it is bound to take your life.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbowman/midi/misc/bad_moon.mid
Source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbowman/midi/misc/index.html)
Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Joh 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Joh 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.