Will this be an story involbing Unzanta Claus, Child Byakuren and Sou, the tiger of the bright nose?

What the hell. I think the artist is misinformed or I'm not reading this right.

You're not reading it from a foreign perspective. "Pagan" and "heathen" which etymologically mean "rustic" are taken to mean "non-Abrahamic" since forever, but there's no particular reason a Buddhist culture would even have a word for "non-Abrahamic".

My dictionary gives "different religion" as the first definition of "ikyou".

fuzzygnome said:

You're not reading it from a foreign perspective. "Pagan" and "heathen" which etymologically mean "rustic" are taken to mean "non-Abrahamic" since forever, but there's no particular reason a Buddhist culture would even have a word for "non-Abrahamic".

My dictionary gives "different religion" as the first definition of "ikyou".

Didn't know that. My bad, since I am a Christian. Changed them accordingly and did some tweaks.

I was looking for a 'youchrist' joke. I was disappointed.

fuzzygnome said:

You're not reading it from a foreign perspective. "Pagan" and "heathen" which etymologically mean "rustic" are taken to mean "non-Abrahamic" since forever, but there's no particular reason a Buddhist culture would even have a word for "non-Abrahamic".

My dictionary gives "different religion" as the first definition of "ikyou".

This is like the hundredth time I've seen this discussion of "Ikyou -> Pagan" thing. Every translator should be aware of this.