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.
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.