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cikanman t1_j5558p0 wrote

Reply to comment by jeanleonino in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino

Just pointing out that it was not just the Japanese but many countries have banned Catholicism over the years. Many still do.

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jeanleonino OP t1_j556po9 wrote

Yeah, religion is a touchy point in civilizations, from way before Catholicism was a religion

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