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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 26718" data-attributes="member: 891">Shinto in it's "default form" is all about the Kami which are in effect millions of deities, demigods, and saints.Buddhism though in it's default form has no dieties and it actually a philosophy more so than a religion.Buddha himself said that the question of the nature of the divine and divinity was no business of his nor anyone following his path to even waste time pondering over.So any Buddhist who has any dieties in their buddhism is directly going against his teachings. Of course he also said alcohol was forbidden and everyone should be a vegitarian and that's not really gone over very well either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Anyway...So I wouldn't use Shinto as an example but I would Buddhism. I'd also consider Taoism as an example. Perhaps scientology as well thought the concept of aliens probably doesn't exist in most fantasy worlds. However you could easily switch the aliens out for Mind Flayers and end up with a faith that almost exactly resembles Scientology save that it might very well have concrete proof that it's views are justified.</blockquote>