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Published: 11/11/09

Top Japanese Pol Calls Christianity 'Self-Righteous'

By David Gibson - Politics Daily

This could be interesting. Barack Obama, who has said his Christian faith is integral to his private life and public persona, arrives Friday in Japan on the initial leg of his first trip to Asia as president -- just as a top politician there has called Christianity "exclusive and self-righteous." "Islam is better, but it is also exclusive," Ichiro Ozawa, secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party, told Japanese media after meeting the head of the Japan Buddhist Federation on Tuesday.Christianity "is an exclusive and self-righteous religion. And society in the United States and Europe, ...

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