There is an original work by Shusaku Endo called Silence, but
this and the Silence by Martin Scorsese are actually quite different. The
main theme of the original work is the devil's whispers that the people may not actually exist.
Most Christians don't believe that God
exists. Faith is the attitude of trying to continue to believe in something as difficult as the existence of God through daily effort. I think there are
actually quite a lot of people who like Gerion Ridge and then end up studying Christianity.
For example, the Dead Sea Scrolls, people, border objects, and so on, there are a lot of terms that come
up in the list. But even if you
search in a bookstore, you don't actually find those kinds of secrets of Christianity, and there
are only new documents. I don't understand the deeper meaning.
What should I do? Good evening, this is Toshio Okada's seminar. The
influence is, the
Hollywood movie directed by Martin Scorsese, Siren, which was released in 2016.
Well, I'll just have you watch the video. Well, the story is about young missionaries who, in Edo-period Japan,
were the most persecuted Christians and the Christian community. It
's a time when the persecution of Christians was the harshest. The story is about how, faced with the persecution of Christians, their faith wavers.
Why does God remain silent when so many people are suffering?
Why doesn't He speak to them? The rise of English has led to the question, "Why does God remain silent when so
many people are suffering?" Well, it's hard for ordinary Japanese people to understand that,
but today's video is also about the movie Silence, and I
'll explain what Shinpo Arai is God? It sounds
like it's related to Correa, but if you watch the upgrade a little later, and if it
sells, it will properly connect to that CMN tragedy.
This video is an
upgraded and re-broadcast version of the 165th Toshio Okada Seminar, which was broadcast on February 12, 2017.
That person was there just now. I'll keep all the information in the upgrade, so please look forward to it.
Now, the free video starts here. It seems like
you should see Silence, it's directed by Martin Scorsese, and it's been
talked about a lot by various film critics and even on the internet, but I don't really
watch or read that kind of stuff, and I don't even look at other A1
film reviews, which is my style, but it was
really interesting,
how should I explain it? It's about the persecution of Christians, it's about Christian groups in the Edo period,
but if that's all there is to it, I
don't really get it, so let's start with the story of the 8-year-old. The lead actor is
Andrew Garfield, and this
main character, Sebastian, who we call Patrick, is four years old, and he was discovered by the Jesuits, and he
played Spider-Man in Amazing Spy Ranman, so I'll play Go, I'll call him Spidey in this program. Ah,
Ah,
Spider-Man is the main character, and he comes to Japan with Spider-Man and
does his best to spread Christianity, or spread it with the Dars, His
name is Francis, and he's doing that circuit brick, so he's the dad of A-Han Solo, the
horse-faced actor in the anti-Russia lane who's obsessed with Dan Vader in Ohirai, but isn't he amazing?
Spider-Man and the return brick came to Japan and preached Christianity, and why did that
happen? That old man, Ferrer, was said to be the strongest priest in the Jesuit order.
He was
said to be the pastor, but it seems that
he was the one who threw him into the persecution of Catholicism in Japan, and he lost to Stan, and then Orihara Rei, and the
rumor that he was doing the early days was
just spreading among the Jesuits, and that's how it was conveyed to the European art iPhone 5. And if that
guy's no good, then Japan is no good, so they cut him off,
and then Laurent Spider-Man says, no, wait a minute. But
But
who is this old man, Ferrer, the strongest mystic of the Jesuit order? Leah's Donnie is 6
dm Neeson plays the coastman in Star Wars Episode 1, and I'm going to shoot it,
but why has it gone this far? Marty
Marty
Scorsese, why has it gone this far?
Marvel guaranteed a spot, gathered American action stars, and shot it. The coastman
says he doesn't believe in the Jedi anymore, and Lauren Spider-Man says, "Wait a minute,
Master." I
really need to talk to you about something. I'm half-erect, kid. So,
the two of them set off for Japan after the Shimabara Rebellion, when Christianity was at its most prevalent. So,
even the most powerful Jesuit father couldn't do it, so it was all over, and so Japan was
cut off, but these two young new n Spider-Man and
Lauren, please hold on for a moment, please lend it to us. The
replacement of the sister around here was
so beautiful, and I wonder why Martin Scorsese is so beautiful while shooting such ordinary scenery.
So, based on that reference, where is the Jesuit order?
As I speak now, I'll be using the words Catholic and the Jesuits, and I'll be
using different terms, but
think of the Jesuits as something like a faction within the Catholic Church, and they
're a powerful, fighting sect, and if the depression is that severe, then they should do something about it. That
4-year-old and that father themselves had the intention of fighting with power, and so
rather than being religious, well, in name only, they didn't actually fight, but they
survived in the local area and used their own money to spread the gospel when they had the chance, so they
were a pretty unique group. On
top of that, they were
also a group that expressed opinions about the king and politics. For example,
when Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops because he was far from Japan,
he went
from the Orange Chugoku domain to Kyushu and saw Portuguese and Spanish ships trying to take Japanese people as slaves,
and that
father of the Jesuits was there too, so Mr. Hero was angry, and it's fine for them to trade in the future, but anyway It
seemed to fit the idea that cutting ties with Christianity and taking Japanese people as slaves was a terrible thing, but in fact the Jesuits themselves
were opposed to the Spanish slave trade and the Polo halt, and sent numerous letters of opinion. The Spanish sister sent a letter of opinion
to the King of Portugal saying that Japan was
not at all a slave country and there was a lot of resistance to it, so please stop doing business that way. But
But
Spain and Porto
at the same time, Sakura ignored her and tried to force it through, and the
person in charge thought that Hideyoshi would calm down if they made a mistake with their military power, so they showed off a
big response and Hideyoshi started playing around, and the moment they said, "Okay, let's
start with Korea," he replied, "
No, we're just showing it, we're not selling it." The
source and Hideo-san were very suspicious, so why was Hideyoshi, who was at a time when he was the most suspicious of people, allowed to do this?
So they interpreted showing weapons and not selling them as an attack on them, and that
made them even harsher on Christians and other groups.
That's the historical background, and
that's why the Jesuits were an intervening group that expressed their opinions on politics and
had the fighting power to oppose absolute monarchs and other powers. So I
think the relationship between the Great Galactic Republic-like Congress and the Jedi Knights is quite similar.
The Jedi Knights,
while following the decisions of the Galactic Federation Congress, also object to the content and do
what they do on the ground, which I think is very
Jesuit-like, and when you look at it this way, I
think Martin Scorsese's team can be seen as a kind of incredibly realistic sci-fi movie, probably for Europeans. The
original work is called Silence by Endo Shusaku, and
explain a bit about Shusaku Endo. He
wrote that God doesn't say anything.
In other words, when Jesus Christ was crucified, he asked God, "Why are you
showing me your hair?" and God didn't answer. Why is
that? It
's also a question for the Christian Co-op, but in this terrible,
devastated Japan, there are still people who
are trying so hard to believe in God.
Why don't you give words of encouragement to Christians when they are in despair? Why is that
paper silent? Is it because
we are unbelievers? If you think about it, no, there is no such God, so it's
only natural that God would pay attention to us, but
for those who believe in God, why does God
remain silent? For example, the world is like that
with the Islamic State issue, and there are so many
people who are anti-Trump, and they are very troubled by the fact that Trump has become president.
What does it mean for God to remain silent without showing any kind of shape, like a yellow flame?
We don't really understand why that happened, but the
bishop who cuts is like that, so you can think of it as religion, and the
main theme of the original work that is being told here is the devil's whispers that God may not actually exist, and the
strong are tortured and told not to believe in Christ or to abandon him, and so they can
endure it, but isn't it
true that the essence of Christianity is to be on the side of the weak?
Judas, who sold himself for 13 pieces of silver in exchange for Jesus Christ, is
poor and weak, so aren't people like that really the ones loved by God? It's
a bit of a
reverse story, and since it's written by Chief Inspector Endo, Endo Shusaku himself is Professor Polian, so it's
not like the old Kita Morio novel Doctor Mambo and Professor Korian, but he's
like Maypon, and he was actually something of a comedian in the literary world, and if I were to
put it in a really ridiculous way, Shimoda Kageki and not very cute
by He chose soccer as his position, but
literary works like this Silence didn't sell at all, and only lighter works like Body and Korian Sensei Essay Collection were
selling, and that was the case with Tamori too. I was
saddened by lighter essay collections like Doctor Manbou's Youth Chronicle and Kaihaku, but
works like The People of the Nire Family didn't sell at all, so the
Japanese part is rotating, and he is also using God himself as an essayist, so it's common, well,
even if you haven't read Setouchi Japmatsu's books, Setouchi's words and personality are
all the same when you think of weak people, so you think of them as being exactly the same,
and so even if Endo Shusaku is in the spotlight, he writes about the weak who succumb to torture, and those who fall are the ones who are
Christians, so it's beautiful,
but what does it mean to have the strength to withstand torture?
But before God, such individual
strengths and weaknesses of faith are all equally powerless, and that is the
true essence of a person who loves Camino, and he is writing this outrageous thing, which means that
every day you strengthen your faith, which is second only to God. It's a
kind of character that denies the Catholic Church itself, isn't it? The author, who is a Sonic believer, is like this, and it's
like he's walking a really fine line, yet he doesn't abandon his faith in that depopulated God, and Chief End
supports him, so in reaction to that, he's the kind of guy who wants to write something that's even more underrated.
But, so he's changed it so that there's no
hierarchy between Judas who betrayed the list and Christians who were executed in the Shimabara Rebellion for the sake of promotion. So, with the release of Scorsese's Silence, there's been a bit of a stir among Protestants in Japan's depopulated area, and if you read this Silence incorrectly,
incorrectly, or if you
or if you
get it wrong, it's probably because of the diversity of the company, but if you
take one step wrong, it becomes like Itano Police Station, which means that the strength of faith is powerless in the face of God's strength, and
in this book by End Shusaku, the answer to why God pays attention is
given, and what is that? The
main character also betrays
Spider again and again, and in Yoshiji's
story, he is portrayed as a pathetic, dishonest, weak and despicable human being from start to finish,
but that human being is so dishonest and despicable that in the end the
main character abandons
Christianity, and for some reason he abandons it, and after abandoning it he has already
lost his status as a father and has to live as a human being and as a Japanese person, and
at this point Yoshijiro says, "Please ask me about my overtime work," and the
main character responds, "I'm no longer a
broken father, and on the contrary I'm not a pilgrim, I'm what you would call a fall, and I'm the
worst kind of human being to run away, so how can someone like that be qualified to ask about my overtime work?" To which
Yoshijiro replies, "No, you should be able to ask about my overtime work," and
the main character then says that it's just a formality, and so
even though he thinks that he's no longer even a Christian, when he hears the words of confession,
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh It's
at this moment, for the first time in the entire novel, that the protagonist hears the voice of God. The
master who had been silent up until then finally speaks to the protagonist. What does it
say? It's like, how can I put it,
God is silent, but in contrast to that,
everything the protagonist has lived up to that point has spoken to him about God, so it's a bit of an
acrobatic logic, but you know, it's
really a whole book of literature, like what I
said earlier, it's a bit hard to put into words, but at that moment, he finally hears the voice of God, and in
order to write the miracle at the very end, he uses a huge number of pages to examine his butt and what Christian darts are, and
in the end, the protagonist is a
Christian who has
betrayed Europe and the Jesuits, and who,
like himself, is the weakest of all, who has perished many times, stepped on some kind of fumi-e (a picture of Jesus Christ) many times, who has
betrayed many times, and who, by listening to his confession that, for the hundredth time, he finally believes this time, he believes in this, and is
finally able to hear the voice of Christ or God.
And, you know,
well, well, it
's really difficult to make a movie out of that, you know, this. I
think there are probably a lot of ways to say what the essence of today is, but it's
difficult, but I'll give it a try.
First of all, most Christians don't believe in God from the bottom of their hearts. I do
n't know if there are five times, but that's not the case. There are
n't many
stupid people like that. Rather, Christians are those who try to believe every day because they are worried that God might not exist. That's why
there is something called repentance.
What is repentance? Well, it's
because my faith has weakened, so I did this, I
lied to my neighbor. The reason is that I wavered within myself about the teachings of God, which is to say, I didn't fully
believe in the existence of God. So I repent for that. This
is the essence of repentance, and it's not the kind of foolish, carefree
Christians who believe in the existence of God that Japanese people tend to think of. It's the
attitude of trying hard every day to continue believing in something as hard to believe as the existence of God.
So, it's called faith, so what's important is the faith to believe in the existence of God, and the
attitude and prayer for that. This is the alternative to Christianity.
Okada Toshio and others give this definition of Christianity, but I think this is completely different depending on the person, but so,
what is the difference between Suneo and Christianity? There's this guy called Suneo, a
strong man called Giant, and
and
recently Giant has been holed up in the house and if you don't come out, he says
Giant is coming, so everyone be careful,
Giant is coming, so everyone has to behave properly, so Giant is a fear and he's controlling
us all, but soon Giant will come and ask you what you think about everything we do, and he'll
take you to a recital, so we
have to live righteously. You can
think of this attitude of Suneo as almost Judaism, the
kind that says Giant is coming soon, and what this
this Giant
Giant
god is. I don't know if calling it fear is extreme, but Judaism sees it as something that is essentially violence, anger, and unforgiveness, and that's the basis.
Also, this is a complex discussion, but what is Christianity in relation to that?
If we assume that Giant is an unknowable love that cannot be fathomed by the human heart, then I'm
working on it. In other words,
Giant is watching us. And
he does unreasonable things, but we just don't understand them. That song
has some meaning, too.
In other words, this is the world of the New Testament. It's all
all
unreasonable, isn't it?
There are so many things like droughts and droughts, and because we have these things as explanatory principles, we
must have a legalistic perspective. Today, this boy, Suneo, is influenced by Yu, but
no, all of these things have been
given to us, and the very idea of asking why is amazing. It
's not that it's outrageous, but Giant exists in this world, and humans, in contrast
to that, are not there. So, can
humans not accomplish something, can they stand above others?
8 I understand that the idea of throwing away things like that moat is something like that, like the white Suneo care heels and today, and
Christianity itself is very close to us and I think everyone has read the Bible,
but it
's a really difficult issue to understand. So, as I said earlier, the
original work by Endo Shusaku, Silence, is written as the fear of God's absence,
and the anxiety of why God doesn't speak to you. But how did
Martin Scorsese write it? Martin Scorsese
first reinterpreted this original work, Silence, as a love story and then adapted it into a film, so he
changed it so that instead of hearing a voice, you can see a figure. I
think changing it into a love story is the key to the original work, so that's
where we'll be talking about it here in the backstage broadcast. Okay,
thank you for your hard work. That's all for the free video. So sorry to keep you waiting. At the top of the PlayStation, we,
well, we're nerds, and it's
around the third paragraph. Even if you like games or manga, There are
times when your faith wavers, right? For example, when you
record an anime you've been looking forward to and it's just the worst. Or when you've been looking
forward to a Hollywood movie and it has a sequel, and you
thought it would be good, but it did
n't work out. First of all, your heart wavers.
Then, when you're absorbed in something like that, an old friend gets married or you're invited to a wedding,
or when you
see that they've become a decent member of society, or when you receive a New Year's card and you
're given a smiling photo of the whole family, or a baby, that you don't even want to see.
But at times like that, you can't help but feel
moved by the same disc that moved you back then, that still moves you today, like a DVD or Blu-ray, or for some people, it's
no longer on sale, so you get a VHS or Betamax tape, and you feel like you
have to watch it again, and you have to start a new course, or something. There are
people like that, but
more than that, there are people like that too, and I've
been thinking about it a bit, and with the Silence format that I introduced this time, I
wondered what it would be like if I wrote Evangelion, and so
so
what about that moment when faith wavers? Well, for the main character, Ikari Shinji, both
Ayanami and Ashika betrayed me. Why are they
so cold? Isato won't answer my questions, and why did they go
bankrupt? Speaking of Unravel, it
's the queue, right? When Evangelion wakes up, I
think it lives in this structure. So the queue in Evangelion is painful, and
in contrast to that, New Evangelion is like a salvation. I
think that when things progress and have discussions, the hearts of
those with faith waver along the way, and the love for the people around them is actually kind,
but they appear cold. It
's really interesting to think about how that system works.
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