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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 6912494, member: 102103&quot;]Hard to be sure, but some hardline Protestants considered the veneration on the Virgin Mary to be a form of idolatry back in the day.&nbsp; I was told in Japanese history class that the Japanese authorities when the country was mostly closed to foreigners in the Edo Period would make Dutch traders stomp on a portrait of the Virgin Mary to be allowed to enter the port and trade.&nbsp; Most of their earlier experience had been with the Catholic Portuguese, who the Shogun regarded as a threat.&nbsp; The Protestant Dutch traders were mostly indifferent to this demand and willing to do whatever was necessary to make a buck (or a Guilder, as the case may have been).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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