SoliFortissimi
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Not with Shinto. Shinto is generally portrayed positively.
They're just xenophobic.
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They're just xenophobic.
Yinko
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Shinto is not an organized religion.
Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
It sort of was during the WW2 era
Yinko
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Not in the sense the term is used by European cultures. There was a Ministry of Religion that derived from a Ministry of Rites and Ceremonies, who's job it was to ensure that official religious practice did not differ overly much, however there is no head of faith (aside from the emperor being the theoretical head priest of one of the temples), and no universally acknowledged dogma or codex. In fact, the assemblage of practices is more akin to tribal religion, in that each region has variations on a theme. In that sense, the various ministries were not so much focused on creating a central standard as they were excluding foreign influence, such as Christianity.
SoliFortissimi
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Yeah, you got me there.
Partially it is,in 19th century they take various cults and made standarts for them,which was checked by state.
Agent23
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Shinto is Totemism/Ancestor worship.
Emperor = father of the narion, descended from the Moon Goddesss.
And the people/narion/society are one large, extended family.
Emperor = father of the narion, descended from the Moon Goddesss.
And the people/narion/society are one large, extended family.
Yeah, they should just bend over and pander to every gaijin idiocy and willingly be "culturally enriched", did wonders for Paris and Cologne and London.
Aldarion
Neoreactionary Monarchist
Nothing wrong with that.
Emperor is descendent of Sun goddess Amaseratsu,but you are right on other topics.Shinto is Totemism/Ancestor worship.
Emperor = father of the narion, descended from the Moon Goddesss.
And the people/narion/society are one large, extended family.
Yeah, they should just bend over and pander to every gaijin idiocy and willingly be "culturally enriched", did wonders for Paris and Cologne and London.
Better be xenopfobic,then ojkophobic.
SoliFortissimi
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That's what they've been doing for over a century already. Why stop now?
Being xenophobic against Christianity?
Aldarion
Neoreactionary Monarchist
Christianity is not native Japanese religion nor something that has anything to do with Japanese culture.
So no, nothing wrong.
Typhonis
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Japan currently treats Christians better than it treats Muslims.
Aldarion
Neoreactionary Monarchist
???
Yinko
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Japanese Christians exist, Japanese Muslims not so much. If Japanese Muslims existed, they could buy property, but non-citizens cannot.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
Furthermore, to the point of how it resembles the tribal religions of pre-Christian Europe, we can even see it in the importing of Buddha. These sorts of belief systems don’t have the same hang ups over foreign Gods as Abrahamic faiths do, and much as the Cult of Isis (Egyptian mother goddess) became very popular in the Roman Empire, so too would Buddhism fuse with Shinto.
SoliFortissimi
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Christ's message was universal.
Aldarion
Neoreactionary Monarchist
And came to Japan connected with Western influence. Even if not, again: it is up to them whether to accept it or not.
Lord Sovereign
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Obviously not to the Japanese.
And the Tokugawa Shoguns proved more successful at suppressing it than the even the Emperors of Rome.
When Japan was opened by USA and let missionaries come,there was only 60.000 hidden catholics there - and half of them refused to join Rome and made their own Church.
Which is now dying out,becouse those people lived in remote villages which are abadonned except few old people now,and younger generation which come to big cities do not care about any Faith.
Strange thing - Shoguns could not wipe them out,but modern technology did it.