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Haru to Ashura
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The Buddhist inspirational works are were the Buddhist people are. The Jewish inspirational works are where the Jewish people are. That's not meant to offend anyone, but that's just the plain facts...82 precent of Americans answer that they are Protestant or Catholic. With that high of a percent, of course you're going to run into more Christian media than other religions.*shrugs* |
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Mohawk52
Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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hanachan01
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Remeber when the preachers said that Pokemon was satanic...
Times have changed. And for the mucho better! I'm Jewish, so I might not pick it up....but I did like Tezuka-sensei's 'Buddha', so maybe I'll read it in the store... |
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Mohawk52
Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
Posts: 1325 Location: San Diego |
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I have no problem with Christian messages or OEL manga. I DO have a problem with OEL manga art that looks worse than, say, the losers of Tokyopop's Rising Stars contest. There are high-schoolers who draw better than this, and I'm not even talking about in Japan. I DO have a problem with the Pop-Culture Christianity that seems so popular among Americans these days. Quoting assorted Bible verses to back up some Puritanical feel-good philosophy is not the Christian tradition I grew up with, thankyouverymuch. Ever heard of Dar Williams' song "Teen For God"? It's an ironic chronicle of a high school girl who goes Biblestudying and praying with her friends because it's trendy, and by the time she's in college she's rejected the faith and her life is a wreck because she only got into the surface elements of the religion. I fear that this is the kind of audience that Serenity is going to bring in. They'll take the pop-culture part of Christianity, sure, but they fail to respect the rich historical tradition of the faith. I know some great "Christian music" -- Bach's Mass in B minor, Mozart's Requiem, the Gregorian chants. Folks like St. Thomas Aquinas did some great Christian writing before there was ever the Left Behind series. And I get inspirational Christian messages from the stories and histories in the actual Bible, not a fictional group of kids who spout portions of it in order to make each other feel better. |
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Ghostgrave
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Christan speaking. I love anime or manga no matter what my faith. Now as a christan, if this stuff is propaganda, thats one thing i dont like is forcing things on people. There life there choice. From what im looking at this could be a decent manga.
It could go further, theres more to my faith then just praying and worship. Until i can get my hands on a copy of the manga then this is where i will stop. |
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Mohawk52
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I don't think it is a progaganda tool to try to convert anyone to Christianity. It feels more like it's targeted towards non practicing Christian teenagers who might have personal, or social problems because of poverty, or family breakup, or finding themselves involved with the wrong crowd, or gang and getting in trouble. It's a story to highlight that there is help within their faith if they would but take the first step toward it. I can see this plot working with any religious faith really.
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