How Japanese People Came to Hate Religions

In Japan, it is very common for someone’s legitimate activities or businesses to be criticized as a “宗教 religion” and that he/she is deceiving the “信者 believers” to pay them money. For example, right after the membership features on YouTube was released in Japan and many famous YouTubers started using the system, there were people saying “They’re scammers who are taking money from their followers!“