Can’t Keep Silent about “Silence”

It would have been acceptable to me if they ended the movie “Silence” with the fact four hundred years later the second of the first two atomic bombs designed by America were dropped in that very spot, on people who denied G-d’s Son and believed a man Hirohito was a divinity a direct descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu. From wiki: Hirohito was not put on trial, but he was forced to explicitly reject the quasi-official claim that the Emperor of Japan was an arahitogami, i.e., an incarnate divinity. This was motivated by the fact that, according to the Japanese constitution of 1889, the Emperor had a divine power over his country, which was derived from the Shinto belief that the Japanese Imperial Family was the offspring of the sun goddess Amaterasu. Hirohito was however persistent in the idea that the Emperor of Japan should be considered a descendant of the gods. In… Read moreCan’t Keep Silent about “Silence”