The whole thing about ninjas is you don’t know they’re with you and you don’t know when they’ve left. Oh they’re out there. Catholic ninjas. They come into your lives, they live near you, they’re part of your families, and you may never know you just met a Catholic.
Sure they’re Catholic. They go to Mass now and again. They consider themselves Catholic but they don’t want to beat people over the head with their faith. They certainly don’t let it interfere with their politics. Or their lives for that matter. In fact, they so mask their Catholicism that most people don’t know they’re Catholic. And that’s how they want it. They’re Catholic ninjas.
Don’t be a Catholic ninja.
July 31, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Frustrating but true.
July 31, 2012 at 9:10 pm
Haha!
And remember, Catholic Ninjas are always more informed than you. They're just too busy watching TV to explain how.
July 31, 2012 at 9:34 pm
They will need the help of Catholic Samari like the Shogun Archbolds.
August 1, 2012 at 5:34 am
Actually, some of the ninja did have ties to the Pure Land Buddhist militias that sprang up during the Warring States era. According to legend the famous thief Ishikawa Goemon, said to have been a renegade Koga ninja, tried to assassinate the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi for Hideyoshi's mistreatment of Buddhist monks.
Incidentally, many if not most ninja probably were samurai; they were just the black/special ops branch of the military. The sword instructor of the first three Tokugawa shoguns, Yagyû Munenori, was married to the daughter of an Iga ninja, and samurai didn't marry non-samurai.
August 2, 2012 at 4:57 am
I used to be a Catholic ninja. I was fully practicing, didn't vote against my faith or anything. But I kept it very private and didn't talk about my faith to anyone except other Catholics. Some people just never knew I was "religious". That had a lot to do with how I was raised, but I am a convert and over the years I have opened up about it a lot. I am proud to say I am no longer a Catholic ninja 🙂