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which is self-evidently nonsensical, because even a child of average
common sense can comprehend the irrationality of what we is related
here. However, many Japanese people are far from seeing this reality as

they are blindly and proudly following in the footsteps of their ances-
tors. A Japanese proverb explains this perverse belief as follows:
“Devotion to the mother of all ancestry is the source of all virtue and a person,
who fulfills his responsibility to the dead, will also faithfully fulfill his respon-
sibilities to the living”.
In reality this is a great error and
everyone who uses his mind can
see this. Every culture and society
on earth has its own traditions,
therefore how can it be believed
that “following these traditions”
leads to truth? Is it a “truth” to
continue some perverted prac-
tices of the ancestors of an

African tribe? Is it right for the
son of a Nazi to follow the
racist, violent and cruel ideolo-
gy of his father? All these are
contradictory to one another;
they all are based on different

The superstitious Shinto traditions in-
herited from their ancestors oblige all
Japanese people to believe that the
universe was brought into being by
two so-called deities known as
“Izanagi” and “Izanami.” According to
this irrational tale, all the islands of
Japan and the Japanese people were
brought into being by this twosome