Dominant Religion in Japan? - Page 4

GoNative · (#31 (**permalink**))

Wow it's so hard to check the date of a post you are replying to!! Those of us who do must waste so much time that we couldn't possibly have lives as well.
Apart from actually missing the date of the post your reply also made absolutely no sense. The person didn't even say anything about there can't be christians in Japan. They were just a little unhappy to learn that christianity was supposedly on the rise in the country. Now who wouldn't be unhappy to hear that?

tokusatsufan · (#32 (**permalink**))

Me. Possibly more people on here who don't want some idiots to have a go at them. He was saying everyone should be an athiest like him,which is wrong. If I hated all athiests I wouldn't talk to anyone. Now Japan is a very religious country,that's a fact,and you probably could be an athiest there but most people in Japan do not have a pessimistic world view and would be a bit weirded out by it. So only some divorced or homeless people are likely to agree with you.

hitotsz · (#33 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Sangetsu

My door is regularly knocked on by Jehovah's Witnesses, and there are a couple of young white male Mormons who I see commuting through my town by bicycle almost every day. Christianity is definitely on the rise in Japan.

For jehovah's wetniess are they japanese or white

tokusatsufan · (#34 (**permalink**))

I think they must be,I think they tend to stick to Buddhist/Shinto,occasionally there might be a Japanese Christian or Baha'i. I had a Baha'i teacher at Junior School.

GoNative · (#35 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by hitotsz

For jehovah's wetniess are they japanese or white

When I was in Japan I had both knock on my door. I've always hated door to door sales people.

Nyororin · (#36 (**permalink**))

Strongly religious groups, including Christianity, tend to be viewed as suspicious and cult-like.
In general, religion in Japan is more just a series of customs than beliefs. I don't know anyone who is strongly religious. Mostly it is a go-through-the-motions sort of thing. I have encountered a small handful of Christians in Japan... About half of those had "converted" because they needed to be Christian to teach in a Christian school, and the other half were of the born-again want to save your soul types.
Neither were or are common.

Please note, there is no reason to offer your opinions on religions in this thread. The question has been answered (a very long time ago, in fact) so I am closing this.