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[–] stbelmont 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Funny that the two Christian cities of Japan were the ones that got the atomic bombs.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://richmondunlimited.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/ww-2-the-only-two-christian-cities-in-japan-bombed-with-atomic-bombs/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwifiv3dnf_jAhVO7qwKHYjOCJYQFjALegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw3MJo4Qx0deo_9ULLrQcLWT&ampcf=1

Nagasaki is famous in the history of Japanese Christianity. The city had the largest concentration of Christians in all of Japan. St. Mary’s Urakami Cathedral was the megachurch of its time, with 12,000 baptized members.

...the massive Cathedral...became Ground Zero.

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At 11:02 a.m., during Thursday morning confessions, an unknown number of Nagasaki Christians were ... or otherwise disappeared in a scorching, radioactive fireball that exploded 500 meters above the cathedral.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/christianity-nagasaki-bomb/219373/