Fabian Fucan Rejects Christianity

Fabian Fucan uses various religions, cultural, historical, political, and social aspects to attack Christianity in the excerpt. At first he seems almost a little hypocritical when he reveals that he had studied Christianity for twenty years at first,  but now despises it. He refers to Christians as “barbarians” who he is ashamed that he followed earlier in his life. I also got the vibe that Fucan really respected Japan, seeing as he called it the “Land of the Gods.” He begins his argument by hating on the Christians for wanting to destroy the Law of Buddha and the Way of the Gods by forcing the adherents of Deus to weaken the Royal Sway and eliminating pre-existing Japanese customs by replacing them with their own as a way to try and usurp Japan. Fucan talks about how they have taken over other countries, like Luzon and Nova Hispania, because they were, “lands of barbarians with nature close to animal.” He glorifies the Japanese army by commending their “fierce bravery.” He has faith in the army and believes that even if the Christians try, they will be unsuccessful in trying to usurp Japan. He shows his disgust for Christians yet again by saying, “for the sake of their faith they caulue their lives less than trash, than garbage.” Clearly, we can tell that Fabian is a nationalist for Japan and does not want the Christians to spread into Japan because he is protective over the Japanese customs and culture that he does not want to be tainted by the Christians who seek to invade. He establishes the point that the Christians have history of usurping certain lands then subsequently altering the natives in their beliefs and customs so that they assimilate with them; a completely ridiculous thing to do according to Fabian. He puts Buddhism on a pedestal by basically saying that it is pure and clean and, basically, is a completely better choice of religion over Christianity.