>>8834
Bro, like with every religion, you don't go around trying to prove a negative, the burden is on shinto to prove it is right.
Every religion has something like this, some "stone" upon which you can build your belief system (and it always WILL be just belief, we're well beyond proof and such in this conversation). For Catholics and Orthodox it might be the historical accuracy of their church, for protestants pure faith in the Bible, for Mormons the old "burning in the bosom", for Scientologists the subjective results of thetan therapy, you get the gist.
What is the thing with which shinto gets converts? And I say that because people being born into it are, well, born into it so its a whole different animal. Why would anyone convert to shinto, what is its schtick, its selling point, its way in which you can know its the truth, what is the "stone" of shinto ?