Shintoism is fake and gay. It was made up during the Meji restoration. All those cute Shinto shrines you love were run by Buddhist priests. Shintoism has always been a nationalist pet project. Its better than other nationalist bullshit religions like Tengrism lol because at least its built on actual folk beliefs. Its also why you can't be a Shintoist you smelly jappafag wap. Although I did run into this white guy in the Netherlands who goes around dressed as a Shinto priest. The local Mistubishi branch sometimes hires him to bless cars or something but most Japanese think he's a moron. Pure Land Buddhism was by far the most popular religion among Japanese until America nuked them. Now they food amd Yoshinoya is the closest thing they have to church.

But! There are syncretic forms of Shinto mixed with Buddhism, Taoism and oddly enough Islam for some reason. That last one never caught on （⌒∇⌒ゞ） But you can just join Buddhislam and than practice Shinto beliefs on the side. Maybe enshrine your KinkPad and worship Phatchouli too. Christian trinity is like one step away from full blown Shintoism. You know the Catholic church in the 1920s said it was ok to be a Christian and practice Shinto because Shintoism is just cultural tradition. Go ahead. Do it! Follow the path of Ahmed Ariga who syncretized Islam and Shinto by saying Allah is the same as AmenonakANUShi. Now just add the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to AmenonakANUShi(names in Nipponese of course *wink*) and all all the Shinto gods as angels or something. Good? Now make up some rules and found your own church. Make fapping a good deed and you'll win converts in now time. Done! Now you can be a Westerner and do the Shinto too. White Shinto. All praise the kami of Hallmark cards and ugg boots!

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>I wish such religions were still popular in the west instead of "join us or u will burn in hell for the eternity lol"-ish abrahamic religions
SAY NAMU AMIDA BUTSU NOW OR YOU WILL GO TO NIRAYA OR BE REBORN AS A HUNGRY GHOST (zombie) ヽ(`Д´)ノ I mean look at it this way... is it really that different from Catholics and their gazillion billion folk saints? Or Muslims with their gazillion billion Sufi sheikhs and Jinns? Santa Muerte is way cooler. I mean just look at her!


>I think that Shintou is simply the most original, universal kind of spirituality there is.
I've never heard actual Shinto people say this. They see kami as a Japanese thing. Like maybe other cultures have something like kami but kami are Japanese and Japanese only. Look at it this way, Japanese kami are like gods who only live in Japan. Its not a universal spirituality at all but a local nativist one.