On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Richard Lawson wrote:

On Saturday, December 13, 1997 4:08 PM, H. Torrance Griffin wrote:

Christianity, for example, is at best a semi-fringe cult in Japan to
this day.

I think calling Christianity a cult is a little extreme.  It *is* a 
minority religion, however.

In 1994,  117 million Japanese adhered to Shintoism.  90 million were 
Buddhists.  2 million were Christians.

Japan now has over 200 million people?  I thought Japan only had 150
million or so at most...


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