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broadmode | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Most of Japan is secular, wherein various Buddhist practices remain embedded within the Japanese culture.
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Mike Hotel | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My mother in law is Korean, and the Korean church she is a member of really is a blessing in her life.
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00e6c356 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Isn't Shintoism the main religion of Japan? Much like Confucianism, ancestor worship, respect your elders, this sort of thing.
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broadmode | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 It was. Now it's all integrated into "Japenese culture".
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Kanzan | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 lol
this is a good explanation
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broadmode | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Similiar phenomenon to Christianity in the West; many secular households still are culturally Christian.
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Kanzan | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 but contrariwise

a lot of Japanese are still culturally secular
even if they are believers
and they bring that aji to their Christianity