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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Thanks for the agreement.  I think that the big thing here is that saying "religion" signifies "worshiping/believing in something that doesn`t exist" to Japanese.
So of course what most people do wouldn`t classify as such, because, they may likely exist. Just like all the cooks in the area who make offerings to the pickle god in our local shrine - Better to make the offerings than risk offending the god. Is it religion? Of course they would say no, because it`s not "worship" as such. But in reality, it is religion.
(Oh, and that definitely isn`t me.  I`ve only been here 9 years, plus I`m still only 26. I highly doubt I could have made it over here at 6!) |
Yeah she also had a name (that she kinda made up) for the Japanese religion because Japanese are both Buddhist and Shinto (there was a saying that I heard there it was “Japanese are born Shinto and Die Buddhist”) any ways she call them Bushinkyo ( because most Japanese have the concept of both Shinto and Buddhism)