Is Manga Christian?

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There isn't any such thing as a "christian" anything. YOU are a Christian, a book is just a book. Now, if your definition of something "christian" is that it talks about, sings about or othewise depicts God or Jesus or the Bible then your toaster isnt' "christian" either (unless you have one of those that toasts the face of Jesus into the bread...lol).

Please don't get hung up of the "christian" lable, believe me when I tell you people will exploit that and take advantage of you.
 
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There isn't any such thing as a "christian" anything. YOU are a Christian, a book is just a book. Now, if your definition of something "christian" is that it talks about, sings about or othewise depicts God or Jesus or the Bible then your toaster isnt' "christian" either (unless you have one of those that toasts the face of Jesus into the bread...lol).

Please don't get hung up of the "christian" lable, believe me when I tell you people will exploit that and take advantage of you.

Sry, i was naieve so :p

Thanks for clearing it up for me :thumbsup:
 
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Yes, there are some Christian themed manga out there.
I have a friend who reviewed a manga retelling of the gospel. I don't remember what it was really called; we just all called it "Manga Jesus"
Was it the Manga Bible?
 
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There is no such thing as Christian Manga. or much Christian Anything.
Christian is a state of being for a person not an item.

Manga (true Japanese Manga) should probably not be Christian Related.
 
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Manga is not Christian.

There are clean mangas, moral mangas, okay for all ages manga, but Japanese manga is not Christian (advocating God/Jesus/the Bible). You have to realize that their main religion is ancestor worship and tradition... very little of the Japanese population is Christian. But yeah, ignoring the fact that your toaster isn't Christian either... ;) you just have to use discernment when it comes to manga.

(Besides the manga Bibles they've come out with. I saw one, but the art was a far, far cry from regular manga... sigh)
 
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The manga bible wasnt anything really, I was hoping for something like the whole bible made as an actual manga, there was hardly anything in there.

Manga in general is NOT christian, if you look at the japanese, they worship their gods and ancestors and not our God, there are many Japanese christians, but not many, hardy any of the population is christian really.

If you actually know the Japanese culture, you would know what I am talking about, they have shinigami (death god) (shinu = to die / kami = god --> shinigami) I dont think thats christian at all. But if you dont take all that to heart and live on it, you will be fine.
 
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Hi, newbie who is just getting into drawing, and im curious, is manga Christian, at all???
Seriously, you are asking this? That's like asking if Mickey Mouse is christian or if Speed Racer is christian. None of it is christian. None of it is anti christian either. It is what it is. Entertainment. But there are a lot of religious aspects in some shows/cartoons. It's like anything else. Nothing belongs to Satan. Nothing really belongs to God either. It's what you make of it. Don't start going off on a limb saying that its anti christian because its Japanese. That is just retarded on so many levels.
 
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Wow, I didn't even know that they had a manga bible...but I gotta say, I don't think that it would be anything like a manga at all. Mangas aren't exactly of Christian nature, but hey I give the person who came up with that props for trying.
 
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