2016年7月29日金曜日

"Moralogy" and the atheism in Japan

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.♪(´ε` )

As I said before, Japanese atheists are generally devoted into having very personal way of approach for the truth, eternity, and their death which unavoidable for all the human being.

As the rest of the world except Japanese are aware of how much Japanese culture is specific in its characteristics as well as its stand aloneness.

But,  so many Japanese concern that their atheistic "Moralogy" is the best universal, unique and all-embracing which is very close to Zygmunt Bauman's "the cosmopolitan consciousness".

Japanese Moralogy which Nippon Kaigi and other Shinto sects devoted into, is not same as the Confucian teaching originated in China.

Basic teaching of the Confucians are; do their best in the placed hierarchy in a society, man and his wife should do their roll with certain respect, show their respect to elderlies,  elder should show sincerely to younger, and young ones should be obedient for the age order, and the love to their friends.

But, Japanese Moralogy is different from the original concept. It teaches to be generous(Jin),  faithful for one's social duty(Gi), well-mannered to others(Rei), be smart to know others with indirect verbal communication(Chi), and be trustful(Shin) in the society we are now.

The Moralogy teaching are all related with the Nationalistic patriotism, but not with people's day to day living. The moralist ask all the nation to be faithful for the society than our family, or loving ones.

Japanese Moralogy teaching is more abstract, and ambiguous than the original Confucians' teaching.

The teaching is abstract means Japanese people don't know "how to reach out to these ethical aim".

Actually, the abstractness of Moralogy is the cause of the detraction of the religious literacy in Japan.

Many Japanese people don't feel the self-contradiction to being religiously illiteracy of oneself while others are not achieving the best result as in each ideal or teaching.

So, the Moralogists accuses Christians for not reaching out to the state and condition  of Saints and the angels. Or some weak, handicapped, disabled and sick are not achieving their best or even miracle work just to reduce the social financial and psychological burden.

Nippon Kaigi, the Japan Conference which originated on the radical fundamentalism of Masaharu Taniguchi, who had devoted to the nostalgia to Edo period Omoto sect, is also utilizing the Moralogy as "the universal truth, without any conflict" having one religious authority to belong.

Now, let us review the religious literacy. Religion is like a one's house. If one is living in a house, the house become home to the one lives that house. But, once a house has emptied then that house turn to a deserted and collapsed.

Same thing happens on the religion. If ten percent of the faithful are their to support their innate faith with prayer, rituals and the local custom, the religious belief is alive filled with ones' joy. But, once people started to loose their faith unawarely, then the basis of the religion will become "the deserted and collapsed house".

Nippon Kaigi has been trying to reinstall the Meiji constitution along with their political aim to  their three goodnesses; recover the big patrimony family system, deny the natural human right for 99% of common people, and the educational revolution to revive the moral education(Dotoku) centering the Nationalist duty, but not be patriotic according to the personal feeling or personal opinions.

For Moralogists in Japan, all the religious authority or movement are concerned the source of making conflict toward each others meaninglessly. And for over 90 years, common people in Japan have been brainwashed as "the Moralogy is the only universal truth over all the religious authority, belief".

And most of common people in Japan are not aware how their religious illiteracy is seriously under-leveled in the rest of the world.

This situation occurs the serious communication trouble with Japan and the rest of the world.

Nippon Kaitgi's fantasy aim is to Japanese the whole world, just because they really don't know how to let Japan be adopted into the rest of the world.

There are 26 nuclear power plant on the middle of the pacific plate, the Philippine plate, North American Plate, and the Eurasian plate, with 110 volcanos in about three thousand islands include the four main islands.

That means Japan is the world threat on radiative poison source for the entire earth.
Japan really need the sincerely help from the world as well as the situation in Syria, Palestine.







2016年7月23日土曜日

The Effect, The Defect And The Side Effect Of Atheism We See In Japan

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.♪( ´▽`)

Last week, I've found a commentary  discussed on "if the religious conflict cause the civil war in the middle East?" in Al Jazeera English home page.

It was really impressive that a religious philosopher who regarded the freedom to live as an atheist is really important to avoid the religious conflict in a society even that was never a point for the studio commentator.

There is the one common point in Judaism, Christianity, Muslim, and Hinayana Buddhism. To join the religious community as a lay person, one has to be entitled by some clear reason(ex: being Jewish,  born or raised as a child in certain religious family, acknowledged and studied the teaching, some kind of decision making to join the community by oneself) to swear, or have a Covenant to show one's belief in some way.

In Japanese Buddhism, Shintoism along with a family or area never require any study on the teaching, never required to know the basic concept of any religious concept.

Recently, we don't even need to know about the religious rituals such as one's marriage or funeral, or memorial services of household religion.

An atheistic marridge hall in the hotel is available. Usually they call a  white man actor as a faked pastor as a fashion.
About marriage, everybody can do atheistic marriage ceremony, and the marriage advisor teach you everything.

On the funeral and memorial services, one can discuss with a funeral service company salesman. And the salesman can find appropriate Buddhist monk, Shinto priest, protestant pastor or even a Catholic priest! You can pre-study briefly what you have to do during the services in your household religion  by a DVD explains all details along with your religion provided by the funeral company.

All you have to do is select the marriage or funeral service package plan suitable for your budget!

Cause one don't have to worry to bother his/her life joining unwanted religious services.
Wow! Japan is the true paradise for atheists!

That's why almost all Japanese are apathetic to being an atheist no matter what they feel in their mind. Most of modern Japanese people are becoming atheistic by urbanization and the isolation toward their ancestor, Buddhism teaching or Shinto goddesses.

The natural atheism in Japan has a good effect for those who aren't "blessed" in religious literacy. Those who aren't gifted in religious sense don't have to be patient for enforced to join some religious community which against their atheistic sense.

The natural atheism in Japan sometimes become a tool to avoid the religious conflict if one is really t" a talented atheist". In this sense, Japanese people say "be a Roman in Rome" and  some of them really show their respect to the local religious custom in the place they live.

Most of atheistic Japanese are so serious about "moral" not to become troublesome to the other people.

Since Japanese government had been persecuting the Christianity since 17th century, majority of people concert that the Christianity confront to the Japanese atheism. majority of over middle age people still concern "it is not allowed to become a Christian in Japan or covert from the household religion".

And it is typical teaching in sect religion in Japan that "oh, you don't have to convert from your household religion to join XX sect spirituality. It's nothing more than spiritual to join XX!"

One reason it happens is brainwashing the nation as atheists are very convenient for raising fund for so many temples, small and Grand Shrine's endlessly rising construction cost frequently happen in all area in Japan except Okinawa and Hokkaido.

To continue the fund raising, the blessing for the building, purification ritual in hospitals and nursery house where people might die is the important revenue sources. In this point, LDP, Nippon Kaigi and other sect religious groups have been working so hard to promote the purity, cleanliness, and aim to be pollution-free spiritually.

"Bacillus" "dirt" is the enemy and discriminated term in Japan frequently used by racist. So, Japanese TV commercials we often watch are soaps, deodorizers, cars, and insurances!

The natural atheism cause the apathy to the religious matter which cause the serious degradability of the religious literacy in Japan.

Even the famous University professors in liberal art don't understand the practical functions of the religious literacy in very basic approach because there's no tradition to devote into one religious belief in this nation.

So, it is very hard to accept death hence no human being can terminate death no matter how scientific progress shows its advantage.

To be respectful for the basic human right, Christians and Muslims also need to concern about those who are't talented in some kind of spiritual or religious sense. I think it must be not easy for those who are dull in religious sense need to be patient in Sunday school without understanding what they had learn, and have a Covenant just to accept the parents' & relative's expectation.

Atheism seems as it is the modern religion in Japan.

I'm not sure if the atheism is good or bad. But, we Catholics should pay attention to those who aren't talented in religious or spiritual sense.







2016年7月18日月曜日

A Basic Concept of the Religious Studies about Japan

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.(_ _).。o○

For those who are interested in religious studies will face a big wall to understand "what is the religion in Japan".

Some books say Japanese are mainly Buddhists, while the other material claim that most of the ordinary Japanese are sentimentally Shintoists.

If you try to find some ethnographical pieces written in English, you'll find so deep & narrow field work report on a very small village culture or religious activities.

Even the scholars in the religious major don't want to write on the religious culture covering entire Japan except Japanese government assign some scholar to do so.

If you ask any Japanese scholar, bureaucrats why the Japanese people hesitate to express their religious matter, most of they confess that "Japanese people are too shy to express what in each feeling".

I would say those Japanese authoritarians claim "Japanese are very shy and in-going" is the biggest which made of entire Japanese society with apathetic ignorance for the deterioration of religious literacy in Japanese society.

Majority of Japanese people concern the primitive chaos is the only truth. The chaos is true to Japanese because all the religious teaching can only tells the part of the primitive chaos. And all the world or local religions, the local folk belief, local processions and the pilgrimage are concerned as some part of "the entire primitive chaos".

And in the interaction of Japanese mentality, each person is looking forward to find a very personal spiritual ties with the primitive chaos in very individual way in person.

Actually, rest of the world except Japan realizing that we,  civilized people face the desperate high wall if one would do so.

But, in Japan, the Imperialistic Reformational Extremists who have risen on around early 18th century, at the very end of Tokugawa Tyranny, concerned that they revive the ancient myth called "Kojiki(Ancient mythical Writing)" and pick & pasted the "usable and convenient" concepts from Christianity, Greek and Roman philosophy along with the Confucian teaching "usable and convenient" for their political purposes.

99% of ordinary people had not agreed with these reformer's attempt. However, the reformers themselves had faced the high black on the wall; their parents, partners, and relatives.

During Tokugawa Tyranny, a household must have registered to some Buddhist temple nearby legally. There was almost no freedom of belief nor faith for both priests and lay Buddhists. Buddhist monks' child must inherit only the sect and temple one belong.

Typical shrine until Edo period had worshiped Buddhism and Shinto Statues  in one place.
There had been an annual check-up the temple belonging for their ancestral worship, and must temple the Holy Cross with Jesus to testify not a Christian.

Meiji Era reformers wanted the same system in Shintoism, and failed by five years.

So, the Meiji government had done their best to terminate the local culture, and brain washed the people through the school education by "a person should be spiritually tied with the primitive chaos directly without any religious teaching, faith and prayer which are not favorable to the power of the time.

Because Meiji government had trashed out the traditional religious feeling people had kept until the early 20th century, Japanese people gradually lost their religious literacy lived in their daily life by  political oppressions.

Also, the ethnical standard for sex, marriage, funerals, and folk art had rehashed even the time goes by,  the religious literacy in Japan had got lowered and degraded as the time goes by.








2016年7月7日木曜日

Persecution Invisible In Japan: Something has risen

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.(⌒-⌒; )

Third year in the elementary school was so quiet. Nothing special happened for the entire year.

Yes, there were some teasing for I had communication trouble came from autism, but not very serious.

I didn't have anyone to talk, but, the homeroom teacher was really a nice man. I mean he looked so nice as well as taught us nice in liberal way. He hadn't made any fancy nice smile v.s. smile class, but, managed his class so comfortable to almost all kids.

But by next year, we turn to know that "he" thought he must chase out all teachers whose job performance is excellent and nice.

I turned to know that our school was occupied by "him" the vice principle later on . He was a dwarf-like short old man with few hair bridged on his almost bald head. I've hardly remember his name nor impression. Only impression I had for three years was "he's always sweeping with his broom or gardening somewhere in the school ground whenever he has spare time".

I still wonder how he had found out that much time to do sweeping! He was sweeping or gardening from very early in the morning, morning break, after lunch break and after school!

At the end of third grade, almost all the liberal nice teachers had transferred to other schools. It seems as it is the ordinary annual teachers'  event until I become fourth grade.

Fourth grade class had begun with the horror event. The homeroom teacher changed to super-nationalistic Okinawan woman teacher, and ijime, the loathsome damp abuse had begun.

Strange thing happened was happened in the middle of the school year at that year only. The principle "had moved" by some unclear reason, and the very liberal-type principle had taken his place. Unless the principle become seriously ill, retarded or became pregnant, school teachers usually don't have any transfer in the middle of the school year, but it happened.

I'm very sure that about middle age principle, HE wasn't pregnant nor having physical illness.

The new principle tried his best to do the reformation of that school occupied by "him".  The memorandum work the new principle did on his half a year term was "dream time capsule" a time capsule with our composition sealed in and planted in the school ground corner.  The capsule was opened on the100th anniversary year.

When I was late for school, I met the principle at the gate when he would almost go out for "the morning address". My school satchel was on my back, and I knew I was late. So I said "Good morning, Sir" as we have eye contact unavoidably.

He told that "good morning story" on his  morning address that day. He was the best teacher I've met in my life.

But the new principle's liberal policy really made "him" feeling so loath. And "he" made this new principle transferred in half a year! It seemed if this whole incident was the political strife.

As the teachers' struggles get worse, ijime to me also became brutal. One boy put some strong glue on my top of the hair, so I had to shave of some of my hair.

"He" was planning to do "his style" education at the ordinary elementary school. Some students were violent but not punished, but I was punished to "not being communicative and corporative".

I still remember how I've ashamed to lift up the heavy wooden chair for an hour without  any rest nor dropping the chair for a school hour. I couldn't do my study during the punishment, and I really couldn't understand why I was punished by having bruise while a boy who kicked my shin wasn't punished.

That Okinawan teacher tried her best how nationalism and patriotism supported by imperialism is good to follow.

Many of you might concern why the parents were so quiet, and the students and teachers were helpless in almost unconstitutional situation. According to the present constitution, the public school must not teach any religious moral, teaching.

But, in a closed society name the Japanese public school abandoned the aberrant condition.








2016年7月2日土曜日

Persecution Invisible In Japan: What Japanese Imperial Nationalists misunderstood on Christianity?

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.(ー ー;)

As in the UK or in Republic of Ireland, people live in islands are likely to be isolated than communicative with other tribal, ethnic groups. Especially, Japan is very isolated from the Asian contient for the Japan Current, the Kuril Current flow from the contienent to Japan, so as the wind.

The Japanese tradition had been the polytheism mixture of Shintoism and Buddhism. Historically, Shintoism has been taking the expansionistic strategy to take over the administratively centralized nation since 5th century.

However, their rituals and the grand Shrine construction cost have been a burden of national budget since the ancient time, too. So nobles and scholars tried their best to theorize the Shintoism, but failed again and again.

One reason the failure of theorization is the "goodness structure is supported by local community, but don't have both horizon communication route within each Shintoist sect group. Also, the ordinary people's faith and nobles' "theories" has been dissociated until now.

"Namban-dera, the first Church in Kyoto established in 16th century.
In the 16th century, Tokugawa Shogunate had made a big decision on the political policy for the religious authorities and movements. Shogunate government established the domestic laws and let the religious body be compulsory incorporated to the Shogunate authority, so the Shogunate government can take social control over all the religious body and movements.

By the strict carrot and stick policy with brutal persecution over Christians and other minority religious movements, the religious literacy has deteriorated generally, and the mindlessness caused to encourage the mystical fear and anxiety.

At the end of Tokugawa dynasty, the rightwing imperialists had visited post-civil war United States. And they were so amazed how "the United States movement had been keeping the civilian control by Christian religion".

Those imperialists had never seen how much conflict there are in the Christian society, never seen the KKK and minority races' conflict even their ship Kanrin-Maru had passed by the immigration ship carried a cabin full of Chinese immigrants to San Francisco.

So, the 19th century imperialists misunderstood the relationship between Christianity each Church authorities, and the government. They misunderstood that the United States government is utilizing the Christianity to integrate the nation and taking over the control of all Christian Churches!

That's why the imperialists thought that if they set the Japanese emperor as the highest living godness if Japan, let people hail to the "new goodness". If they do so, the new government can have more monotheistic polytheism in the order of the imperialistic theoretical Shintoism under government control.

Although Christian nor Catholic concern that the Christian churches, the government of each country and region, and the people have never been in such easy and simple condition as Imperialistic Shintoist believed, they thought they can establish the new integrated & unified politico-religious body.

To maximize the effect of carrot, the Meiji government have needed someone to segregate by stick.
And the Japanese Catholics, Christians and communists became the scape goat "to make stick effectively give damage" to the civil mentality.

So, the persecution toward the Catholic and Christians are still severe in Japan even for a little children.

Please pray for us as well as those who are in more trouble in all over the world.