Well, they do charge for purification rituals and so on (modern Shinto shrines are basically businesses, they have to get their money somewhere,) but I don’t think anyone on this site has ever felt pressured to pay for their services.
Making a living by performing standardized services for money on the open market is pretty much the opposite of the sort of thought and behavior this site tends to “bang on.”
Well, we’ve got a lot of libertarian and libertarian-leaning members, but I think a lot of people here are also not so hot on businesses like, say, homeopathy, which provide goods or services on the presumption that they do something that they actually don’t.
Sure, but Shinto doesn’t get so pushy about boneheaded cosmological claims. Mostly they just dance. Where’s the fun in arguing with that?
Well, they do charge for purification rituals and so on (modern Shinto shrines are basically businesses, they have to get their money somewhere,) but I don’t think anyone on this site has ever felt pressured to pay for their services.
Making a living by performing standardized services for money on the open market is pretty much the opposite of the sort of thought and behavior this site tends to “bang on.”
Well, we’ve got a lot of libertarian and libertarian-leaning members, but I think a lot of people here are also not so hot on businesses like, say, homeopathy, which provide goods or services on the presumption that they do something that they actually don’t.