Christmas...
Trees, here and there, since it is Christmas...
(Yeah, "a faithless priest and innocent Churchgoers" is also the norm in Japan where 2.6 million people call themselves Christians among the 127 million population.)
On the Christmas Eve
Japanese enjoy Christmas buying cakes and holding a drinking party or exchanging gifts.
Japanese listen to the bells ringing out the old year in Buddhist temples in the New Year Eve.
Then, Japanese go and visit shinto shrines on the first three sacred days of a new year.
Japanese know some Christians blame Japanese for their outwardly loose manner in observing religion, but Japanese know Christians have been making so many wars even after WWII.
Japanese know some Muslims blame Japanese for their outwardly loose manner in observing religion, but Japanese know Muslims have been making so many wars and doing so many acts of terror even after the Cold War.
So, most of Japanese think those Christians and Muslims are not clever or honest enough if they blame Japanese who respect Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Shintoism while keeping the Pacifist Constitution that has prevented Japan from opening or joining war after WWII.
No matter how loose the Japanese way looks, Japanese must please Christ Jesus and Allah more than any warring Christians and Muslims. It is the conclusion from Japanese observation of the 9/11 Terror and the War on Terror. All the Christians and Muslims must take responsibility. It is so if any single Japanese carried out such terror or a war, all the Japanese will be forced to take responsibility, since the world will think that it is religion of Japan that has generated such a Japanese.
Very ironically, some Japanese think, some Christians and Muslims cannot stop making war and doing terror because they proudly think they are Christians and Muslims more loved by Christ Jesus or Allah than Japanese are.
(With so many dollars in America and so much crude oil in Saudi Arabia, they must be able to find another way in dealing with the 9/11 Terror and the War on Terror. They can build 100 more Dubais in regions from Somalia to Egypt and Palestine to Pakistan. And nobody makes war or does terror in a Dubai which can be built with costs of $430 billion [$43 trillion is less than Japan's deflation loss in 20 years]. If necessary, have China help the projects since it is now building 20 million new condominiums in the country without occupants due to the bubble.)
However, Christ Jesus might say to any such Christians, "I don't know you," at the gate to Heaven.
However, Allah might say to any such Muslims, "I don't know you," at the gate to Heaven.
But, those who deeply understand Japanese spiritualism might say to Christ Jesus or Allah, "Sir, even Japanese are allowed to enter Heaven through the gate! And, I am closer to Japanese than those nominal worshipers of You."
In this way, Japanese, Christians, and Muslims would enter Heaven together, if they are judged to be as peaceful and honest as a genuine Christian or Muslim who must be as peaceful and honest as a genuine Japanese...
And, remember it is some Christians or Muslims that blame Japanese in person, but not Japanese that blame Christians or Muslims in person, from all I have heard.
For the honor of Japanese spiritualism, I write this under encouragement from Christ Jesus and Allah.
Stop war and terror, and then start to find a reason to blame Japanese, if any in terms of religion, since Japanese, as a nation, are now busy dealing with atheistic China or a billion Chinese atheists, for nowadays their god seems to be gold.
(Even European, American and Israeli Judaists of today never mind befriending Chinese and Indians so as to make big fortune, while those descendants of Abraham and Moses never blame Japanese for outwardly loose practices of Japanese spiritualism.)
So, this is my message in this Christmas. Praise Christ Jesus and Allah, since their religions were established 2000 years ago and 1400 years ago, respectively and respectfully!!
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In 30 B.C., the world looks like below:
(Click to enlarge.)In 5 B.C., the world looks like below:
Not in the Han Dynasty of China,
Not in the Andhras Dynasty of India,
Not in Parthia of Iran,
Not in the Roman Empire or Greece,
Not in Egypt,
But in Palestine, the Son of God was born between A.D. 1 and 10 B.C.
So, why? Because no United States of America at the time?
The answer is that Abraham (2000 BCE - ?) and Moses (1200 BCE - ?) had already score higher points than any others before that time.
But, ....
(Click to enlarge.)http://www.worldhistorymaps.info/images/East-Hem_001ad.jpg
Specifically, around A.D.1, the Senkaku Islands must have been known to those who already started to live in the Okinawa Islands which were called Ryukyu in ancient days. The Han Dynasty was busy looking to the west and the north.
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「メリー・クリスマス！」
"Merry Christmas!")"יום הולדת שמח המשיח"
Luk 12:24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Luk 12:25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?