re: #335 GlutenFreeJesus

This is a hot spring in Unzen, Japan, not far from Nagasaki. Pretty, isn’t it?

Turn around and you see this. It’s a cross memorializing the many Christian martyrs who were basically boiled to death at this site in the 1620s and 1630s.

American Christians don’t know JACK about persecution.

ETA: I was profoundly moved by this site, and the site in Nagasaki where 26 men and boys were crucified in 1597 for being Christians. These were the first two sites I’d ever visited where people had been killed for their religious beliefs. We just don’t have that here in the USA. (Although one might argue that a memorial should be set up at the gas station here in Mesa where the Sikh attendant was killed just after 9/11, for example.)