Chairokokujin
There can't be any good with out evil.If there wasn't evil,how could something be good?
Why does there even have to be good and evil?
I mean, don't get me wrong. Religion and Christianity can be a great guide for helping people to just be great people, but you know, real life isn't so black and white polarized between evil and good. Reality has a lot of gray and reality, rather than "good" and "evil" it's more like "different opinions".
I mean, some people are pathologically insane and clearly not normal, but I dunno if that really means that they're "evil" if they do bad things. They're probably just crazy.
A lot of people in Japan aren't Christian, but there are many Christians. They might not be the minority, but they're there.
Japan doesn't even technically have a set religion. Things are are generally culturally divided between Buddhism and Shinto just based on occasion. That's probably an oversimplistic generalization, but for the purpose of this post, I think it's good enough. The funny thing is when you really get to studying Buddhism, Siddartha is kind of a lot like Jesus. Only, when Buddhism gets proliferated around the world, the Buddhist missionaries don't go telling people they're going to go to hell for not believing in Buddhism. Buddhists find a way to adapt their religion to the local area in order to peacefully allow the local people to understand Buddhist teachings and incorporate them into their lives. Buddhism as it is in China shares the stage with Taoism and Confucianism just as it shares the stage in Japan with Shinto. Buddhism is the local while Shinto is the universal.
If we're going for a "good" and "evil" dichotomy, Christianity sounds more "evil" than Buddhism since Christians tend to cause war and strife simply because of religious differences.
For me, I'm not particularly religious, but I was raised Christian. After getting an education though, I really find myself aligning more with Buddhism. I don't like the idea of organized religion dictating what people are to do and blatantly telling people they're going to hell. I seriously don't believe that God would send good people to hell and there are many Christian preachers that believe that if a person is truly good in their own beliefs, that they won't be sent to hell. I mean, if you're trying to convert people, why would you tell your partitioner that even though they converted, that their poor grandma that's set in their ways that they love dearly is going to go to hell? How is that a good example of God's love?
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