Spiderman
Veteran Member
@Hockeycowboy said that the fact that Kamikaze pilots had some Religious motives is sign of a false Religion.
What?? Nothing in Shinto Doctrine or Scripture supports Japanese wars of aggression or unhealthy nationalism.
Abrahamic Scriptures on the other hand have some words of peace with many countless calls to violence, genocide, and nationalism.
Ancient Israel was extremely nationalistic and militant, Exalting itself and the chosen people above every other nation, and committing wars of aggression and genocide.
If God wishes that his chosen people be more blessed and superior, I'll respect his decision, but I'm not going to deny the obvious either.
Jesus chose twelve descendants of Jacob to be his Apostles , and said he came for the children of Israel. He referred to a gentile woman and her people as dogs.
He wouldn't heal the woman's daughter until she admitted her people were essentially dogs. Just google it and see for yourself.
I'm only stating the obvious.
People can use Abrahamic Scripture to justify violence, genocide, nationalism, and even slavery , and racism.
Scripture supports and sanctions all of the above, even though there are some verses that say otherwise.
It doesn't change the fact that Scripture still sanctions and supports such behavior, and people have used them to justify those behaviors. A few words of peace doesn't cancel the rest out.
Nothing in Shinto Scripture justifies violence , because there are no Shinto Scriptures , or known founder, and the only Shinto Doctrine is "belief in the Kami, the dead become Kami", and a tradition to build spirit homes, shrines, Kamidanas, and Hondens for Kami to find rest, love, and blessing.
There is Shinto tradition of enshrining everyone who dies in combat. The Kamikaze all told each other before their missions that they would meet together again at Yasukuni Shrine, where their names and birthdates are written in a sacred book of souls, in a Honden structure closed to the public, reserved for enshrined Kami.
But nothing in Shinto Doctrine or Scripture encourages or justifies violence or war. Shinto texts are not Scriptures , because in Shinto, no writting is considered inerrant, and Scriptures can't be proven, which leads to arguments and distracts people from loving Kami.
Abrahamic Scriptures have countless calls to violence, genocide, nationalism, and sanction slavery. Meaning those are part of the essence, and intrinsic nature, of the Abrahamic God.
Those things have nothing to do with the essence and intrinsic nature of Shinto.
God and Kami bless you!
What?? Nothing in Shinto Doctrine or Scripture supports Japanese wars of aggression or unhealthy nationalism.
Abrahamic Scriptures on the other hand have some words of peace with many countless calls to violence, genocide, and nationalism.
Ancient Israel was extremely nationalistic and militant, Exalting itself and the chosen people above every other nation, and committing wars of aggression and genocide.
If God wishes that his chosen people be more blessed and superior, I'll respect his decision, but I'm not going to deny the obvious either.
Jesus chose twelve descendants of Jacob to be his Apostles , and said he came for the children of Israel. He referred to a gentile woman and her people as dogs.
He wouldn't heal the woman's daughter until she admitted her people were essentially dogs. Just google it and see for yourself.
I'm only stating the obvious.
People can use Abrahamic Scripture to justify violence, genocide, nationalism, and even slavery , and racism.
Scripture supports and sanctions all of the above, even though there are some verses that say otherwise.
It doesn't change the fact that Scripture still sanctions and supports such behavior, and people have used them to justify those behaviors. A few words of peace doesn't cancel the rest out.
Nothing in Shinto Scripture justifies violence , because there are no Shinto Scriptures , or known founder, and the only Shinto Doctrine is "belief in the Kami, the dead become Kami", and a tradition to build spirit homes, shrines, Kamidanas, and Hondens for Kami to find rest, love, and blessing.
There is Shinto tradition of enshrining everyone who dies in combat. The Kamikaze all told each other before their missions that they would meet together again at Yasukuni Shrine, where their names and birthdates are written in a sacred book of souls, in a Honden structure closed to the public, reserved for enshrined Kami.
But nothing in Shinto Doctrine or Scripture encourages or justifies violence or war. Shinto texts are not Scriptures , because in Shinto, no writting is considered inerrant, and Scriptures can't be proven, which leads to arguments and distracts people from loving Kami.
Abrahamic Scriptures have countless calls to violence, genocide, nationalism, and sanction slavery. Meaning those are part of the essence, and intrinsic nature, of the Abrahamic God.
Those things have nothing to do with the essence and intrinsic nature of Shinto.
God and Kami bless you!