Do you know what's on the picrel? That's right, it's a picture of Jesus. During the Shogunate, Jap officials made peasants step on such pictures (called "fumi-e") to prove that they are not Christians. Whoever didn't consent to trample our Lord's image would be taken to Nagasaki prison for tortures, or burnt alive on the spot.
>>1979788
Could we do something like this with the symbol of Allah?
>>1979788
seems pretty mild compared to pic related
>>1979788
I wonder how this actually worked. It isn't a sin to step on an image of Christ, it's certainly disrespectful, but to act as if a material depiction of Jesus is somehow divine is idolatrous. It really is just a hunk of metal.
>>1979788
>Whoever didn't consent to trample our Lord's image would be taken to Nagasaki prison for tortures, or burnt alive on the spot.
What do you think officials at the Vatican would have done to someone worshiping a sun Goddess?
>>1979838
Going from Spanish behavior in the Americas, attempted a conversion.
>>1979805
As far as I know they'd arrest anyone who even hesitated or had a second thought. Still couldn't catch everybody because what you mention, but they cast a pretty large net this way.
>>1979788
Based Nippon saving their country from the Eternal Christfag.
Good book on this topic:
https://www.amazon.com/Silence-Shusaku-Endo/dp/0800871863