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You were raped?

Ilovefood 4 Mar 24
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I've heard of the past life burden of karma from Buddhists.

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I’ve never heard of a Hindu or Buddhist using karma prescriptively to justify atrocities, have you? That seems like abrahamic territory that eastern cosmologies don’t usually share. Western religions have a top down, prescriptive view of the universe. The church is designed like a court where we’re all on trial. Then when you look at the concept of karma and misinterpret it through a western lense it could seem that way, sure. Nothing can match the true rape apologist psychosis that abrahamic religions tend to bring to the table though. There’s not enough room left on the table for anyone to try.

i have never seen this attitude in judaism. in christianity and islam, yes. not everyone (in any religion) takes the bible (or quran or other holy book) as an operational manual. even if one did, the rapist is not excused and the rape is neither explained away nor blamed on the victim. there is a common misconception that in biblical judaism the rape victim is obligated to marry her rapist. as [chabad.org] explains, the opposite is true. the rapist is obligated to marry -- and never divorce -- his victim, IF she consents. she has no such obligation. i will add that in modern judaism there is no such law (because as i said, the bible is NOT taken as an operational manual) and rapists are expected to go to jail, not to the chuppah! of course the state of justice in the united states is not predicated upon judaism. judges do not always act sanely. rapists get away with their crimes if they're young, white and rich. at any rate, my point is that "abrahamic" is too wide a net, because the original abrahamic religion is not by any means a rape apologizing religion. it has its problems; that's not one of them.

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@OwlInASack Apart from that, the notion is unavoidably implicit in karma. It's just that rape is a particularly evocative example. There's a similar problem in hermeticism (retreaded in recent times as the book, The Secret). If you create your own reality with your thoughts and attitudes, then clearly anything bad that happens to you is a fault in your own thinking. Also compare Christian Science, where illness is "an error of mortal mind". All of these beliefs try to construct cause and effect relationships where they don't exist, in an effort to preserve some sense of fairness or justice in the operation of the gears of reality. Or to preserve their deity's judgments as just, or merely as a fulcrum of control and influence over the sheeple. Usually, all of the above.

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People that claim this can go fuck themselves. This song is very fitting for the meme.

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A comandment noticable by it's abcence in most hold books "keep thy willie to thy self unless invited to do other wise ."

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One of the first experiences with religion that made me go "oh, this isn't right..."

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No I wasn’t. It was college & we were both drunk. He said he loved me.

Who Jesus? He told me the same thing. Bastard

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