•中國時報
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據路透社報導,日本執政黨「民主黨」幹事長「小澤一郎」,最近嚴詞抨擊基督宗教說,和佛教比起來,基督宗教「排他又自以為是」,至於伊斯蘭教,「只比基督宗教好一點點」,小澤這樣的說法,會不會引發日本內部的宗教爭議,備受關注。
小澤一郎在會見日本佛教領袖時,大力讚揚佛教,而把基督宗教給好好批評了一頓;小澤說,基督宗教「排他又自以為是」,所以一些信仰基督宗教的地區,像是美國與歐洲,「只會一味往死胡同裡鑽」;至於伊斯蘭教,小澤說,「只比基督宗教好一點點,可是也相當排他」。
Japanese Official Puts Down Christianity, U.S. and Europe
Daisuke Wakabayashi reports on Japanese politics.
Talk about awkward timing.
As President Barack Obama prepares to visit Japan later this week,
a top official in Japan’s new ruling party said Christianity was “exclusive and self-righteous” and that U.S. and European societies with a Christian background are “stuck at an impasse.”
Ichiro Ozawa, secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and one of the country’s most powerful political figures, talked about religion after meeting with the head of the Japan Buddhist Federation. “U.S. and European societies, civilizations with an exclusive Christian background, are now stuck at an impasse,” the Asahi Shimbun newspaper quoted him as saying. Other newspapers also quoted him as saying to reporters that Christianity was “extremely exclusive and a self-righteous religion.”
Ozawa, who is credited with devising a campaign strategy that helped the DPJ sweep to power and unseat the Liberal Democratic Party for the first time in nearly six decades, also said that Islam was “exclusive too, but less so than Christianity.” Christians are a small minority in Japan, and the country has few Muslims.
A White House spokesman didn’t respond to requests for comment.
A spokeswoman at the DPJ said Ozawa did make comments “along those lines” but she could not confirm exact quotes because they don’t have a transcript of his comments. A spokesman at the National Christian Council in Japan declined to comment, saying the matter was not important enough to address.
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