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Christians & War


“The more I see the majority of Christians are supporters of wars, the more I am convinced that I would not belong to any Christian churches. The contemporary Christians who call themselves ‘worshipers of the peaceful Lord’ do not aspire to peace. These days genuine supporters of peace do not live in Christian churches but outside of them”

Uchimura Kanzo

Shibuya Hiroshi & Chiba Shin. Living for Jesus and Japan: The Social and Theological Thought of Uchimura Kanzo (p. 73). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing


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I love two Js and no third; one is Jesus, and the other is Japan. I do not know
which I love more, Jesus or Japan. I am hated by my countrymen for Jesus’ sake
as foreign belief, and I am disliked by foreign missionaries for Japan’s sake as
national and narrow. Even if I lose all my friends, I cannot lose Jesus and Japan
. . . Jesus and Japan; my faith is not a circle with one center; it is an ellipse with
two centers. My heart and mind revolve around the two dear names. And I know
that one strengthens the other; Jesus strengthens and purifies my love for Japan;
and Japan clarifies and objectives my love for Jesus. Were it not for the two, I
would become a mere dreamer, a fanatic, an amorphous universal man.

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Kanzo Uchimura, 1861–1930 

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