🙏 Japan is the only country where Buddhist priests helped Christians, who are of a different religion.

This article was translated into English on Medium and received high praise.

So, together with my friends, we decided to share it on various social networking sites. We also made a few additions and corrections.

It seems that people around the world, including those in English-speaking countries, were unaware of this fact.

Why was Christianity banned in Japan?

Why didn't Japan become a “Christian country”?

Why does Japan have “the only wonderful ideology in the world”?

What is religion?

For Japanese people

“People who have a religion“ are ‘gullible people with no morals’, and

“people who don't have a religion” are “people with strong morals who can be trusted”.

For foreigners

“people who have a religion“ are ‘people with strong morals who can be trusted’, and

“people with no religion” are “people with weak morals who can't be trusted”.

Japanese people have not been taught Shintoism or Buddhism as religions from childhood, but rather the ethical views of Shintoism and Buddhism.

So,

have you ever thought about the origins of religion? There are several “one and only gods” in the world, but each of them has been imitated, and “new one and only gods” have been created.

In other words, they are “human creations”.

God is “absolute goodness” and “absolute existence”.

The absolute existence of this world is “this universe and this nature”.

Why do imperfect humans worship the “stories” they have created as “absolute existence”?

Nature worship is not a primitive religion.

Nature worship is the most advanced religion.

If “fanatics” do not change their stance on their faith in God, it is fine for atheists to “end their lives without religion”.

There is a big difference between what you know and what you don't know.

Is Japan an atheist country?

Do you think Japan could become a decent country without knowing the “ethics” of Shintoism and Buddhism?

Would you please listen to me calmly, even if it's just once?

I don't want people around the world to convert to Buddhism or Shintoism.

I want people to have “room to accept diverse values” in the corner of their hearts, separate from their own beliefs.

Japanese people don't need to surpass anyone when it comes to religion.

This is because Japanese people know that everyone is different.

I want people overseas to know that there is no need to surpass anyone else in terms of religion.