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>>46401683
Is it? The Dragon God is supposed to be the biggest motherfucker around. Whether the sages are masterminds behind Gensokyo's dealing or the lizard's janitors is up to debate.
Implying if it does show it won't be a cute girl, but shush.

>>41624216
>the problem of association of "The Dragon= YHWH" is that the dragon is not a noncontingent being, or a first mover
That's not really a problem here. The denizens of Gensokyo don't seem to know nor emphasize whether the Dragon is eternal. If someone came out declaring that the supreme deity set all things in motion, then there'd still be no contradictions.

There probably wouldn't be religious sabotage, more because modern westerners do tolerate a plurality of beliefs. However, it also doesn't call for any particular solutions, as religions that are already in Gensokyo don't seem to hold much power anyway. The way things work is that people believing in the existence of things might give those things power, but it does not guarantee that they'll receive anything in return, nor does it assert that that being will even show up. The people in Gensokyo have all sorts of misconceptions about one another; it doesn't make the people conformant to those conceptions, nor does it make the people themselves more or less real.

A Western priest can speak of their deity, then everyone around them can just assume they're talking about the Dragon, just as there are Buddhists in real life who conceptualize this deity as the universal conscious that embodies one-ness with the universe that represents the highest level of enlightenment. Here, it's just the Dragon who is the highest being.