Fabian Fucan Breaks Up with Christianity

With his writing "Deus Destroyed", Fabian Fucan hindered the spread and acceptance of Christiantiy in Japan. There were religious, cultural, historical, political, and social aspects to his attack on Christianity. Basically, Fabian Fucan is stating that Christianity is crooked and evil and that he feels as if he has wasted over twenty years studying and following it. Just with that statement, he is influencing many people to turn away from Christianity. In fact, in this way he is almost brainwashing them, pleading them to turn their head away from Christianity and close their doors to it. The religious effect is tremondous since he is clearly bashing on a religion that has started to make its mark in Japan. As I said, he hindered the spread and prevented Jesuits from reaching out. The Japanese who read this would have most likely ignored Christianity from then on, not even giving it a chance. Culturally, he attempted to stop the intermingling of Christianity. Like Neo-Confucianism, people could have taken bits and pieces of Christianity with other religions and mixed it all together to form some type of a melting pot. Historically, he was a game changer. If Christianity had successfully taken over Japan with the help of the Jesuit orders, then who knows what present day Japan could be like? This goes for the political aspect too. Religion plays a huge role in a person's morals and beliefs and if rulers had been Christian, they might have made different decisions and changed Japan completely or even just a little bit. Socially, I'm sure that his decision to write "Deus Destroyed" and propagate his beliefs that Christianity is made up of lies affected not only the Japanese people but also the Jesuits who were trying to spread their religion. Because most Eastern countries are very stubborn and set on their ancient traditions and beliefs, it must have been difficult for new religions to be spread. Taking that into consideration, this attack on their beliefs most definitely made it even harder for the Jesuits to spread Christianity. They probably would have been ostracized and even attacked or harrassed.