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   Bree to Siwel Naph   
   Re: The Lion, the Which and the Wardrobe   
   06 Oct 05 20:55:32   
   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: bree@bree.com   
      
   On 6 Oct 2005 09:15:15 GMT, Siwel Naph  wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes wrote:   
   /snip/   
   >> through the wardrobe, by try reading the history of Japan before the   
   >> Meiji era, and most notably in the periods of Buddhist dominance,   
   >> where Japan was xenophobic, ethnocentric and religiously intolerant,   
   >> and intolerant of Shinto, Confucianism and Christianity.   
   >   
   >I'd like to sometime, but others might not and a reference on the net to   
   >"Convert or it's your head in a basket"-type persecution by Japanese   
   >Buddhists is easier for someone knowledgeable about Japanese Buddhism to   
   >find. Do you think an "imaginary" (sorry) contemporaneous Japanese   
   >Christianity would have behaved better or worse with the same power?   
      
   That's a logical approach. Whitesmiles Toothpaste and all that. :-)   
      
      
      
   Bree   
      
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