[Buddha-l] religious pluralism in Asia

[Stephen Hodge]

 Dan Lusthaus wrote,

> And [the Jesuits] probably thought the Japanese were agents of
> Satan, preventing the salvation of countless souls, obviously
> evil for rejecting such enlightened frocked gun-runners as
> themselves.

Even more amusing is Xavier's lament that the written Japanese of the day 
was so fiendishly difficult to master, it must have been devised by Satan to 
prevent the spread of the Gospels !

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge.