Chuo-Line Railroad
Shinjuku Gyoen Park
God of Americans (Dieu des Américains)
One typical type of Japanese is a person who does not know who or what is enshrined in a shrine but admire and revere the shrine since it is a shinto shrine.
It can be rather rude to try to know specifically who or what is enshrined in the shrine.
And, there are a plenty of shrines in Japan enshrining various deities.
A man has spirit and soul only the Heaven can give, so that when spirit and soul leaves the man, it goes to the Heaven to belong and stay there. Accordingly, his spirit and soul can be given deity by the Heaven. So then, we have to admire and revere the spirit and soul as part of the Heaven.
SECTION I: Christ Jesus for Americans
Judaists and Muslims account for 10% of the American population.
How many Jews are there in United States?
29,64,10,404
According to Ira M. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky in "Jewish Population of the United States, 2006" in the American Jewish Year Book 2006, there were 29,64,10,404 Jews were lives in the United States of America. It will increase year by year because lots of Jews coming to United States for job and business purpose year by year.
http://www.numberof.net/number-of-jews-in-the-united-states/
The population of American adherents of Judaism was estimated to be approximately 5,128,000 (1.7%)[4] of the total population in 2007 (301,621,000);[5] including those who identify themselves culturally as Jewish (but not necessarily religiously), this population was estimated at 6,489,000 (2.2%) as of 2008.[6] As a contrast, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics estimated the Israeli Jewish population was 5,664,000 in 2009 (75.4% of the total population).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews
The number of Muslims in the U.S.: 2,454,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country
The size of the Muslim-American population has proved difficult to measure because the U.S. Census does not track religious affiliation. Estimates vary widely from 2 million to 7 million. What is clear, however, is that the Muslim-American population has been growing rapidly as a result of immigration, a high birth rate, and conversions.
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2008/12/20081222090246jmnamdeirf0.4547083.html#axzz1RZsstqmg
Judaism and Islam do not teach that Christ Jesus is God.
Jews have traditionally seen Jesus as one of a number of false messiahs who have appeared throughout history.[1] Jesus is viewed as having been the most influential, and consequently the most damaging, of all false messiahs.[2] However, since the general Jewish belief is that the Messiah has not yet come and that the Messianic Age is not yet present, the total rejection of Jesus as either messiah or deity in Judaism has never been a central issue for Judaism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism%27s_view_of_Jesus
In Islam, Jesus (Arabic: عيسى; ʿĪsá) is considered to be a Messenger of God and the Messiah who was sent to guide the Children of Israel (banī isrā'īl) with a new scripture, the Injīl or Gospel.[1] The belief in Jesus (and all other messengers of God) is required in Islam, and a requirement of being a Muslim. The Qur'an (Koran), considered by Muslims to be God's final and authoritative revelation to mankind, mentions Jesus twenty-five times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam#In_Islamic_thought
So, at least about 5% of Americans do not religiously think at all that Christ Jesus is God.
But, does 95% of Americans correctly believe that Christ Jesus is God?
SECTION II: American Believers
According to surveys, 80% to 90% of Americans think that God exists.
A 2004 BBC poll showed the number of people in the US who don't believe in a god to be about 9%.[9] A 2008 Gallup poll showed that a smaller 6% of the US population believed that no god or universal spirit exists.[28] The most recent ARIS report, released March 9, 2009, found in 2008, 34.2 million Americans (15.0%) claim no religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism
But, who and what is their God?
Most likely, God for Americans look like the God of Judaists. The God of Judaists do not mind enemies of Judaists. God for Americans seems to be expected not to mind enemies of America.
Many Americans seems to think Christ Jesus as a human being hero, if so great and mysterious. The linkage between Christ Jesus and God seems to be less focused on. American Christians have come to think of Christ Jesus less and less so that Judaists do not feel any embarrassment living among American Christians. Taking away Christ Jesus, both Christians and Judaists in America can friendly perform religious ritual together.
Some type of rich Christians and some type of rich Judaists in America might not belong to Christianity and Judaism any more in a traditional manner, but both belong to a religion where money is the All-Father.
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If you believe in God, you have to live for God but not for yourself and those who abuse your faith in God.
You have to make God happy but not yourself and those who abuse your faith in God happy.
So, the easiest way for you to live for God is to leave others and go to wilderness, since there is nobody that abuses your faith in God there.
Yet, Satan would come to you in wilderness to challenge your faith.
However, how difficult it was to live for God in Palestine 2000 years ago, since Israelites all thought they were believers of God while living for their own happiness.
As of 2009, 8% of Israeli Jews defined themselves as Haredim; an additional 12% as "religious"; 13% as "religious-traditionalists" ; 25% as "non-religious-traditionalists" (not strictly adhering to Jewish law or halakha); and 42% as "secular" (Hebrew: חִלּוֹנִי, Hiloni).[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Israel
But, now after 2000-year expansion of Christianity, descendants of Israelites have come to be rather humane and humble calling themselves secular, no matter how much they believe in God, probably, like Israelites 2000 years ago.
Luk 7:6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
Luk 7:7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.
Luk 7:8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Luk 7:9 When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.