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The great devastation suffered by the Japanese empire became a
historical proof of the fact that Shintoism was a false belief. Just as the
Nazi defeat in the Second World War proved the falseness of the racist

and pagan Nazi ideology that had promised to deliver a “thousand
year German Empire”, so too was the pagan Shinto religion that pro-
claimed racial supremacy exposed as a fraud. People who believe in
this erroneous religion prepare their own demise in the cause of wor-
shipping false idols besides Allah.
Allah explains the error of such people as follows:
Say: “Call on those you make claims for besides Allah. They have
no power over even the smallest particle, either in the heavens or in
the earth. They have no share in them. He has no need of their sup-
port.” (Surah Saba’: 22)
For most people in present-day Japan, religion consists more or
less of talking to idols and prayers for success and happiness, especial-

ly around the New Year holiday. However there are around 180,000
larger or smaller sects in Japan as the derivatives of Shintoism and
Buddhism, or bizarre and perverse sects that idolize Thomas Edison
and electricity (Denshinkyo), sexual organs or even mountains. 122 The
most prominent sects in Japan are Tendai, Shingon, Jodo Shinshu,
Nichiren, Tenrikyo, Konkokyo, Secho No Le and Omotoleyo. Islam on
the other hand rejects all perversions of religion in all nations and com-
mands the worship of the Most Compassionate and Merciful Lord and
Sole Proprietor of the universe. Allah says in Surat al-Baqara:
Those are the people who have sold guidance for misguidance.
Their trade has brought no profit; they are not guided. (Surat al-
Baqara: 16)

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)