(December 28, 2022 at 7:49 am)Belacqua Wrote: The way people in Japan approach religion contrasts sharply with the way people talk about it on this forum. The difference shows how the approach we generally take here is not the only, or even the most common way, to think about the whole thing.
Same mentality happens in American baseball (probably, in Japanese baseball, also); it's not at all foreign to Us. We discuss religion in a serious manner here because others in the States and Near East feign a sincere belief in it. We take their beliefs seriously only to the extent that they do.