AngusLynch09 t1_j58cs7b wrote
Reply to comment by Freak_Out_Bazaar 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
Why would Japan have wanted to be a "stronghold for Catholicism" though?
Kryptonthenoblegas t1_j58xkr1 wrote
I'm not sure how true it is but apparently prior to the ban catholicism was growing at a very rapid rate in japan, to the point every province had a catholic population of some kind. So I guess if you assume this would continue for some time, Japan would end up having a sizeable catholic population.
Freak_Out_Bazaar t1_j58demt wrote
I never said anything about it being a choice
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