Episode 345 - The Shimabara Rebellion: Part 1

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Support the show on Patreon and get the second part in this series right now! https://www.patreon.com/posts/early-episode-2-119362620 Check out the merch store! https://llbdmerch.com/ *Correction* Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the invasion of Korea, not Tokugawa Hideyoshi. Once upon a time in Japan, shitty landlords, high taxes, and religious persecution united a diverse band of Christians, Samurai, Ronin, and farmers under the leadership of a teenager, believed to be an Apostle, in order to rise up against the Lords of Shimabara and the Shogun himself. Part 1/3 Sources for this series: Robert Bellah. Tokugawa Religion. Ivan Morris. The nobility of failure: tragic heroes in the history of Japan Jonathan Clements. Christ’s Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Our merch store is restocked. So if you missed any of the live show, specific
0:06.2	merch, and wherever date that we went to and you couldn't make it to, it's all on our merch store.
0:11.9	LLBDmerch.com. So get your orders in while they last. We only have certain sizes and certain
0:18.7	numbers and whichever one it happens to be. So if you want
0:22.0	something, get your order in. Once again, that is LLBDmerch.com and the link will also be in the show
0:29.2	notes. Thank you. My friends by God and Yeah
0:38.3	Yeah
0:40.3	Yeah Hello and welcome to the Lions and Buy Donkeys podcast.
1:08.0	I'm Joe and with me is Tom. We're missionaries representing the Armenian church and the Catholic Church.
1:14.8	We've landed in Japan in the late 1500s as a part of a bet that was lost by our churches
1:20.3	in order to spread the word of God in a competition video put out by a man named
1:24.8	Monsignor Beast.
1:31.0	I'm not. put out by a man named Mon Senior Beast. I have to have a bit of a little proud of that one.
1:33.4	Upon arrival, we're greeted by a group of confused-looking samurai, and Tom decides
1:38.2	the step forward to take the first crack at them.
1:40.8	He hands them an iPod, sticks the ear pods into their ears, and puts on the most
1:46.0	brutal hardcore music their ears have ever heard, quickly spin-kicking the nearer samurai directly
1:51.5	in the head. They reject the gifts of his church and kill him. Then it's my turn. I have brought
1:57.1	with me many gifts, but I'm unsure which to give them. I decide against giving them a catalytic converter, not because I'm worried that it may upset them,
2:05.2	but rather I would like to sell it later.
2:07.3	Instead, I reach to my bag, and I hand them a single disposable vape and a baggie of loose pre-workout powder.
2:13.7	A samurai snatches the powder from my hands, quickly rips a line of it and becomes more vascular
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