Yeah, Scorsese's "Silence" is total crap of a movie. Interestingly, there was already a Japanese movie adaptation of the same novel from 1971 which is a very good movie. The difference is that Japanese movie is made from Japanese perspective and why Japanese people didn't want Christianity in their country and why it wouldn't work, while Scorsese made it from Christian perspective wanting to show Christian passion and, of course, got lost in being artsy fartsy because there's no passion behind it, only business and insanity.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
