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Originally Posted by Nyororin
What exactly are you wanting to know that is not written around the net? You say you have read a lot, but what do you not understand?
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The overall idea of kami actually. I've read from my world religions book that its a set of gods and spirits that govern over certain things in nature. A site I looked up recently said that kami are not only gods but ancestors who have reached a high spiritual state, and one said that kami is just nature itself? I've read probably six different ideas and interpretations of kami that I just haven't been able to understand it clearly cause I don't know if they are all right, if one or two are right, or if all of them are wrong.
Sorry if what I'm saying sounds confusing
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Originally Posted by Nyoronin
Shinto is pretty much compatible with any religion out there. It is whether the other religion is accepting of it that makes the difference. I have heard even Christians in Japan say that Shinto and Christianity can work well together because kami aren`t necessarily "other gods".
It all comes down to interpretation.
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Would you happen to know how shinto is compatible with any religion?