Do the rare Shinto faithful among Japan's many atheists

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>>15630483
It is written, only squinty-eyed people can practice Shinto.

>>15630514
Nice phonecian m8. They werent shinto though.

>>15630538
that's from the zelda CDI games though.

"Shinto" is a lie and isn't a real thing. Japan's religion is Buddhism. In the late 19th century nationalists in the government, in an attempt to forge and reinforce a Japanese national identity, took all the little local customs and vaguely Animist aspects of Japanese Buddhism and walled it off from the rest of the religion, declaring it to be a separate thing we now call "Shinto".
Modern day Shinto isn't so much a 'religion' as it is a collective name for a lot of little superstitions, practices and festivities which make up a large portion of Japanese culture. You don't "convert" to or from Shinto. You don't even really "believe" in Shinto, not any more than a westerner would "believe" in knocking on wood or throwing a coin in a fountain. Any "western practitioners" of Shinto are just woefully misguided weeaboos.
Your question is mostly meaningless and is better directed at Google than at /jp/.

>>15630575
>Any "western practitioners" of Shinto are just woefully misguided weeaboos.

I imagine it's this. I can't imagine Japanese people really believe in Shinto stuff outside of just being superstitious. Seems more of like a cultural/tradition thing.
But I wouldn't know, I just post on /jp/ and watch anime. Never been to Japan.

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>>15630575

This right here. Hideyoshi and Tokugawa were getting leary of how much power Buddhist monastaries were gaining; they were almost as bad as the crusades era Catholic church. Transience and poverty my ass.

>>15630644
Your actual comment woefully contradicts the post you claim to be agreeing with.

>>15630538
I'm pretty sure, that's japanese, what else could it be, some made up videogame language, like from Zelda or something, don't be ridiculous