This is a mostly excellent story. I love the description of the church and the atmosphere -- do they still do the Tridentine Mass in Japan, or does the vernacular Mass still have some Latin in it?
The only thing that gives me pause is this line: Or would they blame him for the death of another god, as guilty as those who so many years ago drove stakes through the wrists and feet of an innocent man?
Particularly with Sarah Palin's latest bit of idiocy bringing the blood libel to the greater consciousness again, it's a little disconcerting to read a statement like that, knowing that the people who really did drive in the stakes weren't the ones who ended up getting blamed for it.
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Date: 2011-01-16 10:41 pm (UTC)The only thing that gives me pause is this line: Or would they blame him for the death of another god, as guilty as those who so many years ago drove stakes through the wrists and feet of an innocent man?
Particularly with Sarah Palin's latest bit of idiocy bringing the blood libel to the greater consciousness again, it's a little disconcerting to read a statement like that, knowing that the people who really did drive in the stakes weren't the ones who ended up getting blamed for it.