Debate 1: Religious Freedom vs. National Sovereignty

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Debate 1 Religious Freedom vs. National
Sovereignty
Pros Before After
Cons
Neutral
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Debate 1 In the historical context of Silence,
Catholic missionaries should not reenter Japan.
Pros Before After
Cons
Neutral
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Debate 2Faithful Death vs. Excusable Apostasy
Pros Before After
Cons
Neutral
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Debate 2 The apostasy of the Japanese Christians
is excusable because of the persecution.
Pros Before After
Cons
Neutral
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Debate 3 Apostate Paul (p.174) or Rodrigues
the Faithful
Pros Before After
Cons
Neutral
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Debate 3 Father Rodrigues is faithful to the
faith of the Catholic church in spite of his
apostasy.
Pros Before After
Cons
Neutral
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Debate 1 Religious Freedom vs. National
Sovereignty p.88

• Father sometimes courage only causes trouble for
  other people. We call that blind courage. And
  many of the priests, fanatically filled with this
  blind courage...
• If you force on people things that they dont
  want, they are inclined to say Thanks for
  nothing! And Christian doctrine is something
  like that here. We have our own religion we
  dont want a new, foreign one. I myself learned
  Christian doctrine in the seminary, but I tell
  you I dont think it ought to be introduced into
  this country.
• Your and my way of thinking are different, said
  the priest quietly dropping his voice. if they
  were the same I would not have crossed the sea
  from far away to come to this country.

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Debate 2Faithful Death vs. Excusable Apostasy

• Father, if we are ordered to trample on the
  fumie ... Mokichi head hanging, mumbled...
• I thrust form my mind the memory of how Father
  Gabriel... cried out, I had rather this foot cut
  off than that I should trample on this image. I
  know that many Japanese Christians and fathers
  have manifested such feelings when the holy
  picture was brought before their feet. But was it
  possible to demand this from these three
  unfortunate men?
• Trample! Trample! I shouted. But immediately I
  realized that I has uttered words that should
  never have been on my lips.

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Debate 3 Apostate Paul (p.174) or Rodrigues
the Faithful

• The priest raises his foot. In it he feels a
  dull, heavy pain. This is no mere formality. He
  will now trample on what he has considered the
  most beautiful thing in his life, on what he has
  believed most pure, on what is filled with the
  ideals and the dreams of man. How his foot aches!
  And then the Christ in bronze speaks to the
  priest Trample! Trample! I more than anyone
  know of the pain in your foot. Trample! It was to
  be trampled on by men that I was born into this
  world. It was to be trampled on by men that I was
  born into this world. It was to share mens pain
  that I carried my cross. (p.171)
• I fell. But, Lord, you alone know that I did not
  renounce my faith. The clergy will ask themselves
  why I fell. Was it because the torture of the pit
  was unendurable? Yes... (p.175)
• No doubt his fellow priests would condemn his
  act as sacrilege but even if he was betraying
  them, he was not betraying his Lord. He loved him
  now in a different way from before... (p.191)

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First Debate

• Thesis

Pros Before After
Cons
Neutral
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Second Debate

• Thesis

Pros Before After
Cons
Neutral