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Do we have a true idea of God, or just a distortion?
Endo's error, and our's Do we have a true idea of God, or just a distortion? In the Japanese Catholic novelist Shusaku Endo's novel Silence and the film version of it by Martin Scorsese, an apostate Jesuit priest in 17th-century Japan tells his protege that the mission to Japan has failed, not because of persecution, but because Japanese Christians did not actually come to believe what the missionaries had taught.