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It is difficult for a Japanese to become Orthodoxtranslated

July 30, 2026 · 1 min read

The conversion of the Japanese to Christianity required the former pagans to change their entire lives, to revise many ideas about life and death, about good and evil. And it wasn't easy. For example, in Japanese there is not even such a concept as faith. As is known, the absence of a word in a language records the absence of what it denotes. The Japanese, who always strive to find [...]

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