What do you guys think of Shinto?

>>18516337
I pissed on one of their shrines in Tokyo at age 13, and very bad luck followed.

>>18516337
get fukt weeb

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>>18516337
Im very fond of ethnic groups keeping their original religion
So I say yes

Universalist religions where a mistake

>>18517963
>Universalist religions where a mistake
Not really. Allowing sociopaths and idiots to breed was the mistake. Monotheistic religions are false religions.

>>18516337
It's practically their atheism.

I think it's important to at least have the pretense of respecting your surroundings, like a spirit in a tree and so on.

>>18518047
>It's practically their atheism.
HOL UP. NO. That's a blatant misrepresentation of Shinto. It's just a real religion, so it looks like atheism to jews.

>>18518047
Wouldn't "practically their atheism" be Buddhism?

>>18519191
Kind of, Buddhism seems to exist on a spectrum of actual religion to a philosophy

>>18519277
I know, but in regards to japan it would seem more fitting to describe it as "their atheism" than Shinto.

>>18519317
I definitely agree on that.

>>18519191
>>18519317

buddhists aren't atheists

>>18516337
Out of curiosity how many people in Japan are legit Shintoists? Like they full on believe all of it and take the time to practice it?

Always kind of struck me as a religion that a lot of folk pay lip service too but aren't really all that into (with a handful of exceptions of course)

>>18519504
Most Japanese at least practice it to some degree like ~90%. Its so intertwined with their culture it would be hard to fully abandon it.

>>18519472
They can be. They can worship gods. Or worship a god. The Buddha told people who believed in god(s) there was no god and people who were atheists that there was one.