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Japan's New Government Is Going to Warp Shintoism
Ee gon to use the word warp a lot here. I read a historian talking about how this new government will take the shinto sect, one of the japanese religions, and warp it for state purposes. But they're going to do this with a lot of things. They're going to warp bushito. They'reGoing to warp the samurai past. They're Going to warp shintoism. And if you open them up, i want to remind americans, cause i grew up with just the fumes of this left,. If you open upe those books and look at, for example, how they portrayd george washington, you would not call him a deity