I find that a lot of people who spends their earlier years excessively and obsessively ranting and raving about religion and its 'evils' seem to be people who are just angry and hurt and in their later years turn to moderate versions of the things they lambasted.

>the author of Welcome to the NHK turned to spiritualism after shitting on religion on his works Considering NHK ni Youkoso was a loose self-biography this isn't very surprising, it's how they cope and why you find so many religious types on imageboards. Also it's a shame he sold out after being unable to write anything good or at all in so long.

Nothing's wrong with Buddhist spiritualism. It's good for mental health and to cope in neoliberal hellscape.