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>>46572139
Miko's entire thing is that she in canon introduced an entire relgion to her country that she didn't even believe in all to further her own power. She also literally used her own subject as a test subject to become immortal and overcome humanity
You look at this face and tell me she's not a little crazy.

>>46463958
I think the problem with that line of thinking, is the very clear overtones of ZUN trying to portray the religious leaders as basically all forms of con artists, the religious wars and the WAHH/FS mangas really lean towards the fact that characters like Miko and Byakuren, while not hitler incarnate, are ultimately selfish and vain people who sacrificed a lot in order to transcend their humanity. They preach a lot of trying to help humans but often times they'll do what they want for personal gain/profit and work with characters who are often way worse then they are for, again, personal gain (Seiga, Mamizou)
ZUN changing the Prince's entire backstory into just spreading Buddhism while secretly practicing Taoism with one of their own followers as a guinea pig kinda shows that they're inherently kind of a fraud, even before Ten Desires.
In the end i think the Religious Leaders, including Reimu, aren't really outright evil... they're kinda worse, they're opportunists.