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Originally Posted by MMM
Again, I don't think it is correct to say they don't understand that it is a religious ritual. It is just as individuals, Japanese people are not concerned with religion in their hearts. They go to the shrine not because they are Buddhist, but because they are Japanese.
This is a part of Japanese cultural tradition, that is based in a religious ritual.
That is a little like saying Americans don't know that Christmas is supposed to be Jesus's birthday.
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would you say that most Americans treat xmas as a serious religious ritual or as a cultural tradition?
We agree on the whole suicide bit, and I think we agree about this too if anything just the words I'm using aren't explicit enough
My original thing was that religion is hardly taken seriously in Japan.
It definitely is a major part of modern Japanese culture, but people don't even think of it most of the time, even while doing those cultural "religious" things. Right?