| | In Defence of Yasukuni Jinja - the HERETIC (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | What most of these critiques ignore is that the Yasukuni Jinja is a commemoration of those who had died in all the wars and conflicts from the Meiji Restoration onward and cannot necessarily, nor specifically, be of those particular wars and atrocities in question. |
 | | The Yasukuni Jinja housing the deities of those who had died at the behest of the state is thus twice deified. |
 | | For instance, in Chinese culture, the exhumation of bodies for posthumous punishment is not unheard of, whilst the Judaeo-'Christian' tradition views the soul as a carrier of the sins and virtues of their mortal past which, in turn, determines their internment in either a 'hell' or a 'heaven'. |
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