In Shinto, what is the origin of evil? And I don 't mean why do people choose to do evil. I mean why do bad things happen to good people?
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Shinto doesn't really bother much with questions like this, seeing them as largely irrelevant. To the extent that it does, it largely uses Buddhist teaching for what higher philosophy it does possess. Shinto is a form of Animism and really isn't a religion in the sense that Christianity or Islam is in the West.
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I don't understand shinto, but on your last question here, Abraham first came to my mind.
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As to - "Why do bad things happen to good people?" - Whatever answer I could give you wouldn't mean anything of any value to you. The only answer that will is the one you find yourself. This really is not something that anyone else can give you a real answer for. If they say they can, then they are either deluded or lying. You can however find this answer for yourself. It cannot be expressed fully in words, partly because words are dualistic, limited and cannot contain the reality that you're trying to grasp. To grasp this reality and find your own answer requires something beyond words, no matter how plausible or clever they might sound.
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