When an American teaching English in Japan tried to explain what Easter was (a pen pal had written Happy Easter to a Japanese student), he had a hell of a time. Japanese kids generally know next to nothing about Christianity. After several futile attempts at explaining the term Resurrection, and that Christ spent three days dead then returned to life, the best he got was from one sharp kid:
When an American teaching English in Japan tried to explain what Easter was (a pen pal had written Happy Easter to a Japanese student), he had a hell of a time. Japanese kids generally know next to nothing about Christianity. After several futile attempts at explaining the term Resurrection, and that Christ spent three days dead then returned to life, the best he got was from one sharp kid:
ReplyDelete"Oh, you mean Jesus is a zombie? That's cool."