Some beliefs are based on scientific theories, while there are those that are hinged on philosophical thoughts, thus, making each argument and believer to believe in their own way through individual conviction (
' I bet that a lot of Shintoists would not agree and insist that the Kami are 100% real. But at least some Shintoist felt that belief, imagining something to be true, feeling something to exist, and acting as if something exists, is enough to do Shinto. That struck me, strikes me,...
They believe in the worshiping of "kami" or spirits that live in nature. If you've ever seen one of those red, almost gateway looking things, those are shrines for Shintoists to leave offerings to those kami. It is a distinctly Japanese religion that stresses being one with nature. What...
How many gods do Pagans believe in? What is the difference between Greek, Roman and Norse mythology? Why did monotheism become popular? What is the difference between Norse and Greek mythology? Why is Islam considered a monotheistic religion? How many gods are in the Enuma Elish? How many go...
in modern day, it is nearly impossible to differentiate between Shintoists and Buddhists in Japan. If you ask many Japanese people, they will likely simply say “I have no religion”. However, both Shintoism and Buddhism have faded into unconscious cultural norms rather than overt religious belie...
Our argument was that Euripides obviously did believe in the gods, since the gods do things in the plays of Euripides, things with terrible consequences; it is just that what the gods do is not very comforting to conventional ideas about what the gods, or God, must be like. ...