I feel something wrong, or not consistent with this phrase "However, the religion may in fact lack any recognizable form of prejudice, in much the same way that humans rarely feel speciesist when swatting a fly. " What does it exactly mean? The first part alone would probably mean that they do not have any racial / any other sort of prejudice against fellow humans, but combined with the second one, it seems rather off. I mean, a human could squash a fly without seeing any reason to see the insect as a highly sentient and sapient being. Does the whole thing mean that they see other humans, non-believers, as below them, and thus consider it "technically not racism, since those aren't even on our level"? Unless it simply means "No prejudice at all", but i don't see how the fly analogy works with it. Thx for clarifying
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I've removed this:
- Hidan's Jashin-sama from Naruto, where killing is a religious decree and mercy is heresy.
- Thats the Religion of Evil, if for no other reason than Jashin means something like "evil god".
I double checked at Tangorin before doing so, and the nattering troper is right. But he should have deleted the example in the first place rather than trying to argue against it.
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