Shrine of the Nephilim

How would I do a Shinto-based fantasy campaign? Urban fantasy, high fantasy, whatever. Well a few ground rules would need to be put into play: The gods (kami) are everywhere. You have the celestial gods (amatsugami) , the terrestrial gods (kunitsugami), you have the little gods (mikogami). See a tree? It's god a kami in it.  A rock?  A sword?  A song?  All have their own spirit. Just in most cases, these spirits are quiescent unless you do something to get them going. None of these are Good or Evil. The universe and all it holds has a vested disinterest in you and what you're doing. Go about your life. The only thing that matters is that you're being spiritually pure (pure in thought, pure in word, pure in deed). If not, you annoy the kami. If you are, cool.  Good and Evil are mortal constructs, indicating what is good for harmony and society, and what is harmful, causing strife in society. All kami have two aspects: benevolent and wrathful. A kami in its benevo...

As usual, when we get into a topic we have keen interest in, we tend to fall down the rabbit hole and go on at length. A side-effect of our autism. In this case, we're going to tweak our comments in a Twitter thread about Judaism and Christianity. Are the 66 chapters of the Bible "God-breathed" inerrant? Of course not. Preamble:  "Here's the thing.  We, ourselves, don't see much wrong with the Bible, flaws and all.  It's a good book.  It teaches lessons. It provides a history. None of which is bad.  It's what people do with it, treating it as the ultimate authority, we disagree with."   And yes, this is what annoys us the most, and makes us respond. Because there's people that consider the Bible the ultimate authority, and then turn off any critical thinking. They ignore anything like why the Bible says what it does, what the cultural context for any given text was, the history associated with those parts of the Bible, even the theology surr...