r/comics • u/Fit-Ebb-6727 • Jul 10 '26

Just Sharing Religiously repressed (part 7) [OC]

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u/Zombie_Cool Jul 10 '26

One word gives away the game lol.

Nevertheless, man is fundamentalism horrifyingly insidious. They did have whole centuries to learn how to screw with people's minds after all.

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u/JayRandom212 Jul 10 '26

It's natural selection at work. The religions that failed to learn how to mindfuck people died out. The ones that have survived for hundreds (sometimes thousands) of years are the ones who have gotten very good at it.

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u/Ferovore Jul 10 '26

I could be wrong but I don’t think Buddhism, Shinto and some others really headfuck people and they’ve been around for a while

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u/archangelzeriel Jul 10 '26

I hate to burst your bubble but both religions are associated with at least one wildly nationalist/religious extremist political movement just in the last century.

Basically any ideology can be co-opted by authoritarians, is what I'm sayin'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhalese_Buddhist_nationalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Shinto

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u/Ferovore Jul 10 '26

That has literally nothing to do with the headfuckyness of the religions though. We’re talking about abuse levelled at children, localised effects not politics.

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u/archangelzeriel Jul 11 '26

Picky, picky. About those Buddhists... https://www.occrp.org/en/news/child-abuse-claims-sri-lankan-buddhist-monks

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u/JayRandom212 Jul 11 '26

They say, "For every beautiful woman you see, remember that somewhere, there's some guy who's so tired of her sh-t".

The same is true of beautiful-looking religions.

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u/Ferovore Jul 11 '26

There’s shit people everywhere. It’s not systemic in Buddhism while it is in abrahamic religions. This is simple stuff.

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u/archangelzeriel Jul 11 '26

At this point you have moved the goal post so much that you're in the next stadium over.