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Shinto Shrine Survives Tsunami

Sanguina Cruenta
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:45 pm

(Hooray alliteration)

This was pretty cool.

The snarky comments people left were not. Some of them seem to interpret "god" as a solely Abrahamic entity. It's weird.

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:55 pm

That is pretty cool. Maybe the kami were protecting it, or something. The comments were pretty nasty...those people need a comparative religions class.

Of course, there were a lot of unique things that somehow survived the tsunami...My favorite being a statue of Kamen Rider (lit:Masked Rider AKA a Power Rangers-type hero).

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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:33 am

That is pretty great. I like this comment from the article - "God must have protected it, although some people also helped to put the fire out, so it was not just divine intervention."

I would say that is divine intervention, but however people phrase it I like the idea that the gods and humans are working together to get through this and bring healing.

And also Kamen Rider. biggrin There's a theological point about modern mythology to be made somewhere in there, but I think for now I'll just note that it's cool. Whether it's divine intervention, coincidence, or somewhere in the middle, it's nice to have those symbols standing.

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:51 pm

It's stuff like this that makes me feel justified in being Christian AND pluralist. That's so neat, and is really uplifting.

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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:20 am

I think it's these little beacons that will give a lot of victims the hope and courage to move on. It's a really touching story.

...But yeah, I had to make a comment on the article. ><;;

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