How did Japan create a coherent, well-behaved populace/country without a uniting transcendental religion with strict moral rules?
How did Japan create a coherent...
Ian Ross
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Samuel Barnes
What is Zen Buddhism
Nolan Allen
Is Buddhism really the kind of religion that can unite people like Christianity?
John King
Shintoism too I think?
Brandon James
>How did Japan create a coherent, well-behaved populace/country without a uniting transcendental religion with strict moral rules?
they didn't
shintoism and buddhism were both used to uphold the political order
Jaxson Baker
>Shintoism
>uniting transcendental religion with strict moral rules
Nathan Bell
it was definitely a force of cultural unision
Jack Richardson
>What is the syncretic blend of Confucianism, Shinto, and Buddhism?
And y'know all of the stupid and violent japa got killed off in the wars
Dylan Thompson
Ask Tibet
Sebastian Parker
unified homogenous culture
William Taylor
>ask China
FTFY
Lucas Morales
>implying China isn't united by "muh state/emperor worship"
Justin Gutierrez
>Ask the Maurya empire
Fixd
Brayden Peterson
They weren't well behaved at first.
Logan Young
>yankee posting
Gavin Phillips
Nationalism is even more compatible with pre-monotheist religioins.
Liam Ross
I don't think Hirohito was to blame
Levi Torres
If you think nukes can fix something wrong, just nuke your brain
Ian Powell
Sure fixed the Japs.
Wyatt Sanchez
>nuke
>Akihabara
American education
Aaron White
Shintoism is just a loose collection of folk myths with no strict moral code
Leo Cook
They didn't
>what is shintoism
>what is Buddhism
>most importantly what is Confucianism
Ryan Martinez
Hudson Rogers
They learned the value of non-flammable building material, since the last couple tokyo fires didn't.
Joseph Myers
Liberal application of violence to enforce the rules.
Jonathan Reyes
We woulda if Stimson wasn't a fuggin weeb
Camden Scott
Then when will US government nuke Detroit?
James Perez
It didn't japans a disgrace, Asians are all oddballs
Carson Price
That's not what he was trying to say my weeb friend
Alexander Peterson
>Created the cancer of anime and caused weebs in the west.
Fixed all right
Levi Rodriguez
Anime girls are one of the most incredible artistic achievements in history and in my opinion are Japan's greatest contribution to global society.
Ayden Nguyen
Because you can have a society of shame instead of a society of guilt.
Jeremiah Hernandez
Japanese people doesn't like strict moral rules. Without them, people can be happier.
Levi Russell
You know, I never thought about this.
Nicholas Collins
>your religion has gods for everything
>get told everywhere that the Emperor is a living god
Leo King
>implying China isn't united by "muh state/emperor worship"
>Nationalism and emperor worship are interchangeable
Brandon Gray
>Sure broke the Japs.
FTFY
Robert Cooper
Fuck off you idiot.
Why are atheists so full of shit?
Japan has never had Judeo-Christian values. You only need to look at the massive murder rate in Japan and compare that to the relatively low murder rates in the US, thanks to Christianity to see that Christianity instills basic values that Shinto Atheists simply don't have.
Bentley Johnson
Shinto and Buddhism.
values similar to the ten commandments, basically don't be a jerk to people or animals.
Jack Adams
>You only need to look at the massive murder rate in Japan
Tell us more
Mason Watson
he's making a joke senpai
Nolan Bennett
>chuo dori
Romanizations that write long o's as simply o rather than ou, oo or ō make me angry.
Asher Howard
Geographical isolation, the nature of Island Life, the genocidal nature of Japs, etc.
Connor Scott
>3 years later and Chihofags are still bootyblasted