Re:Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs
by mr__y on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:38AM
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>Western cultural references that might be very "heavy" in a different, much more casual way
Just to prove your point - crucified Santa Claus [0]
[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-21/how-the-iconography-o...
Re:Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs
by vagrantJin on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:05AM
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I'm Zulu. What on earth are they singing about?
Re:Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs
by throwawasdf on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:52AM
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Probably a reference to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Zulu_Nation
Re:Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs
by ljm on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:28AM
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The lyrics reference that directly.
Re:Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs
by vagrantJin on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:06AM
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That makes sense.
Re:Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs
by tomc1985 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:12PM
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Japan in particular is completely unsurprising as Christianity features prominently in a lot of anime
Re:Tokyo’s internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs
by presentation on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:30AM
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Many people I know here in Japan wear crosses and have figurines of the Virgin Mary and so on not because they care about Christianity at all, but because it looks cute.
Japan talking about Christians isn't particularly different. Christianity and comparisons to it are made relatively casually, with much less cultural weight than they would have in the US or Europe. Here's a Japanese rap song [1] whose lyrics [2] go, "As the Bible is to a devout Christian, so to me is is the Zulu Nation" (translation [2]).
So in my opinion the "internet Jesus uses secret creed" thing is at least mildly clickbaity. It'd be the equivalent of seizing upon the name "Zen of Python" to write an article about "A Language with a simplicity driven by Buddhism".
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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnJMBcQFNME#t=2m51s
[2] https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-aklo-rgto-eng...