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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you like looked at Japan or any communist country. Japan is 62% non-religious and is highly social conservative. Czechia is the least religious country in the world but they also obviously have a conservative politics.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not that they're not religious. They just don't pick only one. As they say, "Born Shinto, married Christian, die Buddhist"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love that quote, that's so accurate. Especially with how many funerary schools are primarily Buddhist in Japan along with the vast majority of their burials. It's actually uncommon for a mortician to prepare a body for a wake.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a Japanese boss tell me the state religion of Japan is “being Japanese”. That struck me as being so very true during my few months living there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a very regimented culture, isn't it? Everything guided by ceremony and tradition, you'd think half of it was religious in nature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Could be remnants from past religious values and teachings?

This says Japan has at least 70% of the population following religious practices in 2019?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/237609/religions-in-japan/

The majority of Japanese adhere to Shintoism, a traditional Japanese religion focusing on rituals and worship at shrines. In 2019, around 70 percent of the total population of Japan participated in Shinto practices.