★★★★★ Christianity and evil. It’s the evil that overflows out of the moral of White Man, of Christianity in which you believe in the one absolute God, or not. / A resignation from good or bad, believe or not-believe, it’s the lightness of living without a sin.
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White Man, Yellow Man
Shusaku Endo, 1955
Read in 2020.01
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Christianity and evil.
White Man
The protagonist understands his ugliness, and he fantasises his superiority because of it.
Evil is universal, it’s political but above all it’s so powerful that you can destroy the others.
Crushing his friend means crushing all hypocrites, and violating this girl means violating all virgins.
It’s the evil that overflows out of the moral of White Man, the moral that’s cultivated in Christianity where you believe in the one absolute God.
It’s whether you tolerate it, or you reject to tolerate the absolute good and become evil itself.
Yellow Man
In a way this is harsher.
It’s close to the author’s personal yet eternal struggle of “Being a Christian even if I am Japanese”
During the war, a Christian Japanese young man was exhausted.
Us yellow people actually do not truly believe the God you white people fear.
Us yellow people actually do not have Original sin like you, any way Mother Mary is not in this country.
An ex-priest who betrayed his God finally realises that the truth is in the tired eyes of the yellow people.
They don’t fear death or life, they have no sins, they don’t believe in the God, his absoluteness, and in this country even the criminals are saved as they are.
Can we, the men with white hands, come close to these yellow people?
It’s a liberation or rather resignation from good or bad, believe or not-believe, it’s the lightness of living without a sin.
🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
White Man, Yellow Man: Two Novellas
●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
White Man, Yellow Man: Two Novellas
●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
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