why aren`t the shintos and buddhists looting in japan...like the good christians in a

(look at San Fransisco when the earth wake hit there about 20 years ago...or other disasters in this country....like when hurricane Katrina hit...etc., etc.)
sorry English is my 5Th language.....
a few cases will happen ...but compare the 2 countries and the magnitude of the crimes committed

It's not their divine right to roam the street with automatic weapons (for one)

Maybe they know their government will help them as they have for the last 6000 years

Didn't catch the picture of the two masked Japanese guys trying to pry open a safe that had been washed inland?

*San Francisco

Because they are smart

Who would need a 50 inch TV when the nuclear power plant is about to have a melt down?

They are all about inner peace. Christians are all about blaming someone.

The Japanese are working together fantastically. That would not happen here in the USA.
Many of the National Guard troops would be to busy with law enforcement to be able to aid in the rescue efforts and many people would die because of this. Looting would be rampant as it was after Katrina and every other USA disaster.
Most of this is done by USA citizens with some Christian affiliation. USA citizens simply do not have the moral code and standards of Japanese citizens.

I'm sorry, i take Offense at this allegation. its blatantly NOT true.
some looters might be christian. but almost none of them were good "Christians".
NOT everyone in any city, even around the world is a christian, or a saint. those that were looting, were criminals, and by definition a Truely Good christian repents of their sins. admittedly there might be a few that dint understand correct principles. IMO, everyone! that looted was not a christian.

They do not have oppressed minority groups or any other races allowed as citizens...including Koreans.

Lol awesome question.

Hmmmmm let's see. These apparently godless people are actually acting very civilized and for each other even in face of this disaster.

When you lie to make a point, you have made no point.

The Japanese are an extremely unusual group of people with the most disciplined way of life that to me is totally incomprehensible. Their leaders are people of integrity, taking their role seriously, and it seems that everyone really does what they can to make society work. We can learn so much from them.

PS I am African and Buddhist

Can you prove that they were Christians? Sorry but broad over generalizations of people cannot be taken seriously as a question.

japan doesn't have a culture of entitlement like we have in the west.

it's not just America, it's a disease of capitalist thought, where people are motivated by profit at any cost. japan's society is still strongly family based, and so discipline there is much better than in capitalist societies where people sell their babies and disown their elders.

Now, atheists are changing tack. Before, they revolt against the idea that America is a Christian nation and that there are more unbelievers there now than Christians. So when disasters do strike them - who do they blame now for the mass looting? the getting to be more and more minority Christians. Isn't it more probable to say that if America is now the great land of unbelievers (with the highest prison population in the world - the tip of the iceberg, meaning there should be millions more out in the streets) these godless people do the looting and mayhem?

Different culture. Some cultures teach their people to put societal rules above their own lives...even in a survival situation.

I don't believe in that. If I had just lost everything and was fighting for my life, I would be looting and not feel even a tiny bit bad about it.

It's a survival situation with thousands of people who have lost everything! If you don't grab it, someone else will.

I am just one atheist that would have already had a yard full of new Lexus' and a ware house full of computers and big screen TVs. all this debris will be used as fill on the water front anyways.
the cars will be easy to spot at night, they will be the ones that give off a strange green glow.

JFK, my band is planning a save japan concert in June, it will be a world wide event. all proceeds from tickets and CDs will go to relief efforts in japan. come join us, I will give details later.