its not going to work. Japanese tend to be very against organized religions in general, and they view religious people with suspicion ..Especially ever since that Tokyo subway sarin attack by a cult in 1995. They would still accept Shinto cause they don't think Shinto is a religion lol.
To be fair Shinto barely is a religion, at most it's the preserved corpse of one.
No central leadership, no modern progressive reinterpretive movements, no weird Shintoist zealots evangelizing. Just a bunch of harmless superstitions and festivals that they can use as a nice cultural touchstone and a shared national identity.
its not going to work. Japanese tend to be very against organized religions in general, and they view religious people with suspicion ..Especially ever since that Tokyo subway sarin attack by a cult in 1995. They would still accept Shinto cause they don't think Shinto is a religion lol.
To be fair Shinto barely is a religion, at most it's the preserved corpse of one.
No central leadership, no modern progressive reinterpretive movements, no weird Shintoist zealots evangelizing. Just a bunch of harmless superstitions and festivals that they can use as a nice cultural touchstone and a shared national identity.
Somehow Japan manages to do ancient pagan LARPing without looking like a bunch of dweebs.
I like styxhexenhammer but boy is he a cringe representative of that sort of thing.