Christianity exists in Narutoverse???

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Shinto, which is not an "organized religion" the way we are used to seeing it defined. It's more like a set of culturally-ingrained rituals and stuff. Some Buddhist rituals were absorbed into it, which is why you will see Buddhist architecture in Shinto shrines (the tall many-tiered temples) and some of its mythology and terms mixed in.

Watch some documentaries on Shinto on youtube if you're confused.

"It depends on how we define religion, I guess, but these people who claim that they're not religious or not follow any particular religion, their behavior -- and I think this is the thing perhaps in Japan that might be different from some other countries -- is that the real spirit of the religion and the culture and the lifestyle in Japan appears to be all tied together. So, I know in my country in Australia that people would, I knew people who would perhaps not be the best people all week long, but on Sunday morning we'd all go to church and they would tell everybody that they were Christians, y'know? And yet their behavior seven days a week was not always consistent with that. But here it seems to be that the way people behave and the way they think and the culture and everything else seems to be so tied in with the Shinto and the Buddhist stuff that they don't consider it to be a religion. ... It seems to be -- and this is just my perception of it -- but it seems to be so natural for these guys that they don't seem to separate religion from life, or religion from themselves, or religion from being a separate thing. Are you religious? Do you do religion? They don't seem to think so."



Watch the people that he asks struggle with the question "what religion are you?" And he isn't pointing out contradictions in the same way as we see a contradiction in the same way that athiests still celebrate Christmas, not at all. An athiest would be expected to be unreligious, or inconsistent with religion all the time, a Christian would be expected to at least be consistent while attending church (as he points out, lol), but at least they would be able to answer the question right away. In Japan it seems to him that people are so consistent with their religion that they cannot separate it from their daily lives to where it's not even recognized as religion, do you see what I mean? What he is pointing out is the confused reactions he gets when people are asked the question "What religion are you?"

If we're talking about defining Shinto inside our own Western terms, it's polytheistic. A person who grew up Shinto may believe in Jesus and God and that there was a guy named Judas and Moses and other names in the bible, and think they're pretty awesome, but the idea of worshipping no other but God (as that religion demands) is just such an utterly alien concept.

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Translators taking too many liberties.
 
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