An Actual Cult Made These Anime | Happy Science Vol. 1 

Heheeee boi

And also, their god is almost always every god of every religion all at once. Plus Budda, Muhammad, and every other major religious figure.

Cant forget dinosaurs

There's also a 95% chance of using one or more of those things to justify anti-semitism for some reason.

It worked for Scientology, those folks are rich AF. They're just copying them.

Cool beans. I was thinking the same thing.

Now I need to watch Mob Psycho 100

I always wonder how many references I miss in anime because im just not familiar enough with Japan

Me too.

Wow I didn’t realize that either!

*Armin has entered the chat*

the only good thing in these wacky movies

It's pretty. Pretty dangerous.

@@Anthony-dq4dl Welcome to the archaic use of "aweful", where it was directed to things beautiful and destructive.

​@@neoqwertytbf, the old version is still used in some form, like "awe", "awesome" and "awe inspiring"

Probably he liked the connection to Hermetic magic. Plus the Greeks already syncretized Hermes with Thoth so that spared him some work. And Apollo does have a long mythological tradition of being unlucky in love and this guy really needs you to know he's getting some.

Apollo was a light god, Helios was the sun.

@@NapaCat Apollo is a sun god as well. At different points in history and different places you'll find different takes on Helios, Apollo and their connections to the Sun. Same with Artemis, Selene and the Moon.

Well, Hermes was also the God of travelers and quite a few other things (some of which he stole from Apollo in a quite literal sense) but yeah I'll agree that Apollo or Helios make way more sense for a sun-based cult than Frikken Hermes.

And prophecy and his son is the god of healing, that would have worked so much better!

quality comment

But only by a bit, like have you seen what Fate has done to Attila the Hun?

"Don't worry about it"

This is like more analogous to the Tsukihime lore.

Stole the words out of my mouth. Basically Fate stole the idea and was like "less preaching, more tiddies"

True

just heard him say that and then immediately checked the comments to see if anyone quoted that. noice

Anime is not anime without anime

Devil is in the details. Nice share.

@@CobaltContrast Or in this case, in the "bad thoughts" (badum-tish)

Seems like a great way to keep people in your cult too. Get them in with the promise of constant happiness, then keep them because they can't admit to themselves whenever they may not be happy with whatever the cult is doing

@@Moocow2003 even better convince them that if they aren't happy it's their own fault, and they're failing the cult. Thus prompting them to double down as the only way to achieve said impossible happiness

The bite model isn’t a useful way to determine objectively what a cult is, and shouldn’t be used. Under the BITE model, UPS is a cult.

I'm waiting for the isekai claims to be the next El Cantare with bated breath.

Oh no! Anyway…

@@sarahcole9661 😂😂😂

Let us know what she thinks of it if she watches it or you guys watch it together!

let us know her thoughts of this

Hannah reloaded is pretty interesting on cults, and the likes, fun and aking ifun when its aproviate becaus ecults arre weird, but also respectful. on twitch and youtube, i just mention because its really chill but interesting. And layman psychology why people go there. Your mom did an important job that cant be easy . And even more everyone can fall into that traps. Including musk .and he likes which i dont know if they legally are, but its culty. There is even a cult ember nor going deep the q hole even ore deep thats actually very innocent and nice but also, a child a big child and more worrysome irresponsible father. It interesting. But sad. That cult membrs either grew up in one or were taken adventage up in a low point in their life. As said your mom did a likely hard job.

Does your mom have papers or literature to read? I kinda have a fascination with Cults and helping cult survivors and I'd love to learn

Hardcore nerds are not that far from being cultists

Matthew 24 ☕

Don't forget claiming to be the reincarnation of currently living people. At least with gods you can laugh it off as standard crazy cult shenanigans.

"Oh you don't believe in god? I'm best buds with all the famous people too"

oh yeah well im john

UBER GOD!

Like when I heard the name/word I immediately thought about how we use it in the modern parlance, but it's literally a portmanteau name, like naming the child of a Sarah and Richard "Ricksara"

Weirdly enough, I just read this comment right after mother's basement said that

Why is this a "right wing" cult?

@@xXDESTINYMBXx because it's a cult that is about being happy about your place in the world and you are cannot feel bad about what happens to you or it's straight to hell? Because the underlying through line is about keeping the status quo and giving them all your money, while they make anime appealing to the alt-right rhetoric of Japan, Aryan-izeing famous figures(like making Edison blond and blue eyed when he definitely was not in reality), and holds the third highest rank in heaven for billionaires? Because suicide, not believing in religion, and teaching students about their country's failings are all demonized? Because "right wing" isn't a static position, but a relative one indicating it falls on the conservative side of Overton window that the object finds itself in(in this case Japan)? Because literally nothing about this cult is progressive or even centrist, so that leaves one option? I mean did you even listen to their political platform? Take your pick. Granted, most of these examples are from the second video on this cult's anime and belief system, although their political platform was outlined in this one, but both videos have been out for a while now and your comment is 9 days old.

​@@xXDESTINYMBXx because how many Left Wing religious cults do you know of?

oh shit u rite, lol

And sir Isaac Newton.

smash bros ultimate of religion

I personally feel like this dude just put up a dartboard when he was coming up with it, and then just rolled with whatever random mashup he picked off the wall.

that's every major religion since judaism.

@@-41337 nope

I'm sure they just picked the name from a hat

Also the guy couldn't make fire? He had to get it from the gods and shiz, which is the whole "big thing" he gets remembered for; Taking fire from the gods and gifting it to humanity , then getting stuck to a rock with vultures eating him

The leader just went "whose the fire guy" and picked the first one he saw.

No, this is deliberate. Because he defied gods and atheist technology is bad.

OMG i didn't think about that! So true

MB-Fans? Why stop here? Even IF we dont count Pick-up-Artistry as a Cult, Cult-Coverage is just everywhere and it can be very entertaining. Emma Thorne and Telltale Atheist makes many videos about them and i recommend his video about Kat Kerr as an Entry-Point-to-his-channel.

omg holy shit yes

10/10 on that pun

I wish he would though, because it is pretty bad how over-obsessive they are, and how much they try and normalize it.

@@spoony8485 exactly!

Hell anime, Star Wars, comics all fandoms have cultish subgroups and it’s really creepy

Can you REALLY call yourself a fan if you’re not cultishly devoted to a show?

SarahZ did a video about the bad side of shipping culture in Western media, which is also cultish

I don't care what religion you have or believe, it has nothing on alien cat boy satan

Ma Kali is just a bit of an overprotective mother. Are you saying you WOULDN'T decapitate all those who threaten your children!?!!?

@Aaviskar Parasor good point

So true, Alien catboy Satan is way cooler then what i was taught, and i also had no idea that Sir Issac Newton is actually a god, that lived billions of years before he was born.

True. Traditional goat boy satan just isn't as good.

I guess religions just like to make their opposers look dumb

Right? I'm Indian and grew up with Jataka folktales and the Devadatta bit was the only believable part of that crackfest of an anime

I must say as a Theravada Buddhist, your analogy of Devadatta's character is very amusing. He indeed was a "dedicated hater" to the highest degree. 🤭

Hey, it gets the point across, doesn't it :D

@@ninakrishnamurthy6674 But an actual police force would give it a more bureaucratic name like The Interuniversal Authority of Known Space.

@@PlebNC No, I’m pretty sure an actual space police would call itself the GPD or something

@@ninakrishnamurthy6674 I think they'd call themselves the Galaxy Rangers because space rangers are cooler than just space cops.

If I was that king, I’d keep my son around and raise him to have impeccable self-confidence so I’d have a sick badass Minotaur son to fit with my aesthetic.

@@gregjayonnaise8314 now you get it

@@gregjayonnaise8314 aw man that'd be so badass Minos is such a bitch

He never said he was against banging cows, just not so into the half-human, half-cow progeny.

@@gregjayonnaise8314 I mean, would you really want to admit that to the world? If your half human half bull son was the result of your wife being cursed by a sea god to want to fuck a bull?

I guess only the worship towards cat goddess Bastet in Bubastis, Egypt got the shit against this devil. Also, furries again.

@@catalogiccat4206 of course it's always closeted furries

I mean if he can be a part timer I guess anything’s possible lmao

I would totally watch that if it existed.

The isekai I never wanted. ❤

Moooooom! Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet!

Danmachi.

@@alw2839 Almost never.

@@chrismaystar3014 may be a shitty CGI one but there is also that Cestvs one about the roman boxer

@@gearsfan6669 names?

@@govnorelven4036 I was just commenting on the lack of good roman set anime in general

Thats religion 101 in general tbh.

@@angelswarz8995 if you think about it, religions are just cults that outlive their cult leaders.

@@DolusVulpes That's... certainly a way to look at it.

@@marmato9332 like I said, you have to think about it.

@@DolusVulpes yeah sure

Apparently the head is not the original design on the Sphinx, according to some experts... Also apparently the walls surrounding the foundation of the Sphinx have aged flood erosion patterns which might date back more than 8000 years ago.

I mean, considering this guy has been using the universal timeline as a dartboard to pick his story beats so far, I think we can excuse a couple thousand years' discretion

Were u there or sum 🤨

@@dark_blade2071 Of course not. What I do have is historical records and archaeological evidence.

@@Otakumanu I was obviously joking but either way there's no way to tell if that's true or not since documents can easily be edited. Only way to say for sure what happened is if u were there; and if u weren't how can u say someone is wrong about it if u dont 100% know 🤨

Clever name.

@@lisbonmapping8425 indeed Very Clever

I've always wanted to go to Sakuracon

666 likes lol damn

Examples?? I need to know pls I’m so curious

Except they don't know anything about Balkans

@@karaqakkzl Let's be honest, the only thing most people know about the Balkans without being from the Balkans is "isn't that where Ska came from?"

@@neoqwerty and the warcrimes

Don’t gotta worry about being revealed to be a fraud when you’re already dead.

The child of the leader of an evil organization rebelling against their parent is a pretty standard backstory for a shonen/YA/comic book hero.

@@Vesperitis the son does gives some very minor YA protag vibes with his appearance. Like a tertiary love interest maybe

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@@SuckUNan So many covered crazy cults: why stop here?!

@@Vesperitis YA?

We demand MORE!

Yeah! I didn't even realize that at first 🤣

Man you must not be part of political RU-vid. 40 minutes is short.

Jeff is going to drive into this wild ride into the rabbit hole, and we are his passangers.

According to RationalWiki, they have QAnon connections.

It follows in the... "proud"? tradition of the Divine Comedy.

All those audience-insert harem and/or isekai manga and anime ain't got shit on this.

IN hindsight all Cults are the most riduclous and shitty self insert Fanfics devised by man.

@@azoth6641 That Time I Got Reincarnated As The God Of Every World Religion

That's just what I was thinking

I don't think it's just them; IIRC, there are at least a couple other Japanese new religious movements they have some similar elements in that regard to

@@logitimate There's also the Aum Shinrikyo, aka the Evil Blue Man Group, who committed the Tokyo sarin gas attacks in 1995. They were the inspiration for the Happy Happyists in the video game Earthbound/Mother 2.

@@stuartdunlop8834 Evangelion satirized them, and though it may be seen as insensitive to their victims, screw evil cultists.

There was another one before this called om-shin-rikio. They also produced insane anime and unlike this current cult, ACTUALLY committed sarin gas attacks on japans subways back in the day. The 80's i Think?

others have mentioned aum shinrikyo being an influence, but i will add that most cults tend towards happy smiles in general? in america, former members of jehovah's witnesses and former mormons report similar teachings and behavior. it's very much an aspect of control that many, if not most, cults use. on the one hand, it disguises their intent/actual feelings to outsiders and potential recruits. it also forces current members into a "fake it til you make it" ideal that discourages doubt (because doubt doesn't make you happy) and encourages repression. it's also draining for a lot of people, and tired people are easier to manipulate.

Do you live in Japan or?

@@slevinchannel7589 I'm so sorry, did not see your comment! Let me know if can still help you!

@@TryinaD Nop, Brazil. These guys are everywhere

Your aunt sounds like an interesting person. My aunt is just a dime-a-dozen Trumpist, which at this point is a bit boring, to be honest. XD

Funniest thing, despite this guy being a fucking Nanking apologist, another one of the "movies" has *Godwin's Law Violation* as a some sort of demon lord togheter whit Nietzsche(up to that point the movie was mostly boring, but holy hell if it delivered after they arrived), and i was like "who the hell does fucking Nanking Apology whitout also synpathizing whit the Nazi?"

@@noukan42 A Japanese Nationalist. Imperial Japan was allied with the Nazis because they were the only ones returning their mail, more or less. They were planning on picking a fight with most of Europe over their Pacific holdings, and the only ones who *didn't* have anything to take was Germany. Certainly, both sides made a show of how chummy and allied they were, but Japan didn't give one whit about the Nazi ideology. They were closing territory for themselves, first and foremost. Hell, if anything, they were pissed they were using the Manji like it was their symbol, or something. And then Europeans get all pissy when they see markings for temples on public maps.

Or an American writing the book: "Plague Blankets: Bolstering Your Immunity the Indigenous Way!"

​@@jimmytandberg2859 I think its more like an American writing the book "The War of Northern Aggression: completely about states rights and not at all about slavery".......wait a second

@@jimmytandberg2859 don't forget to mention the good ol trail, Conpletely for physical health of course

Put Figurama Collecters Statues as a tax break for shrines

Long Live the Anime Pope

"We could make a religion out of this"

no dont.

Please don’t

I honestly couldn't agree more. I got my faith rejuvenated when I first learned what a biblically accurate angel looks like and now I'm thoroughly disappointed that Christian media doesn't have anything close to that. ESPECIALLY in this kind of visual quality.

@@Mrhellslayerz the new Jesus game actually looks promising, and I'm saying this as an atheist who might actually buy it if the quality stays consistent with the demo.

It's basically letting a toddler ad lib a bedtime story

I'm betting all creation stories started out this insane, then were only slightly toned down.

I'll give them that - they at least seem to have mastered the "yes and" part of improv.

I had a class where we had to make up a creation story and someone forgot the assignment and it ended up pretty similar to that description

NO BUT FACTS THO

For the record, I immensely appreciate you explaining this. I love the fact that the anime is based on a version of "history" which is technically based on a manga. Simply poetic.

Really? Because I was sitting here thinking that that was the exact sort of stupid death that only occurs in real life.

@@benthomason3307 Nah. The children's story is that the Buddha's cousin Devadatta, after a childhood of Goofus and Gallant anecdotes, tried to drop a rock on him off a cliff and was dragged to hell (fun fact, since hell is a place you get reincarnated into and out of, he's the only one stuck there forever). The adult version is that he became sick and went to the Buddha to feign that he saw the light and fake-apologize, but the earth itself swallowed him before that could happen. But there were some assassination attempts involved, including the elephant.

I’m watching the stream too lol, hi chat widepeepoHappy

Hi chat

I know right it's an amazing hustle

@@Noname-- Kinda makes me want to start my own cult, NGL, but I'd specialize in videogames and make ripoffs of Shin MegaTen If... by way of Devilman.

As a Kingdom Hearts fan I couldn't agree more 😆

NOT CATBOY SATAN 😭

Fully agree

Actually this feels more like if L Ron Hubbard was a DM doing a home brew world. A Christian DM would of done such a better job. JR Tolkien was a Christian, after all.

@@edwardmajewski434 Pretty much every christian movie, song, and video game disagrees with you there. Being christian doesn't mean a person isn't creative, but the christians that make christian media largely do an awful job.

I WOULD PAY MONEY TO GET INTO THAT GAME! Imagine the exploits you could pull to undermine it…

@@Corthate "Can I play a Warlock in this campaign?" "Celestial Warlock?" "Eh, we have 3 clerics already since it's the only spellcasting class you've allowed, so - Wait, wait, why are you getting out that gun-"

Good luck!

If you find yourself taking notes, get someone to proof read to make sure you didn't start writing a gospel

@@FFKonoko I have to agree XD

@@FFKonoko lolwtf

MB-Fans? Why stop here? Even IF we dont count Pick-up-Artistry as a Cult, Cult-Coverage is just everywhere and it can be very entertaining. Emma Thorne and Telltale Atheist makes many videos about them and i recommend his video about Kat Kerr as an Entry-Point-to-his-channel.

Honestly no, it does look legitimately good and I really think the background artists have some incredible talent even if its being put to waste on this shit.

Yeah, they did get a lot of really talented animators to work on them. And the visual quality only makes the insanity of the scripts funnier

Honestly,if i didn't know that these are cult propaganda,i would have loved them,for the strange and bizarre syncretism giving it a very unique charm,and i would see myself feel swayed by it,like only a good anime can make me do. Honestly,this weird multi-religion cinematic universe tied by a single religion,in a very long Bible-like story,like the old time Bible movies,would be something that i would really love to see. This one is so bad ,so good, that i would love to see something in this style.

Soon

Shin Megami Tensei 6: Bliss

Now if only Dante could return to the games... NO, Vergil! Vergil's gotta be the super boss of the next SMT game!

OMG HES ONE OF MY FAVORITE SCI FI AUTHORS. I should start a cult base on him 🥰😉🧠

I mean, I'm just stuck wondering why the dinosaurs had to die. When you're adding billions of souls to a single planet, people still gotta eat, and if the mormons can have North American war elephants in their book, dinosaur-farming cat people from space sounds fair

Exactly

Given my liking for pop team epic, I always have to do a double take every time I notice it mentioned. I agree though, this takes way more time and effort to process.

OH GOD, DID YOU JUST IMPLY RYUHO OKAWA IS THE EMPEROR???

That and myths Smashed together from a bunch of Religious study text books along with what looks like a Failed Star Wars Clone trying to be cool and high concept.

@@DVAcme BLAS-!!!!! I'm sorry, i mean HERESY!!!!!!

@@jakey14344 Actually, the correct term is H_E_R_E_S_Y!!!!!!

@@DVAcme if you pay money to him, he would hold a seance to talk to Sigmar himself

Steins;Gate

@@sponge1234ify I summarize Steins;Gate as "A bunch of idiots accidentally invent time travel and suffer the consequences." So yeh, it can work here.

@@yourcollegedebt8384 Cant promise it’s as funny as this video here (glad it’s back, btw) but fun-fact: Many covered cookey cults and discussed funny and/or damaging religions. Just wanna say: If you enjoyed this, maybe give other RU-vidrs and especially Atheist-RU-vidrs a look?

Bad Shows deserve Criticism. And the Best Criticism is such that you dont even have to know the Franchise criticized for Hours on End. No kidding, Jay Exci did FIVE Hours with Doctor Who, and Madvocate and Hbomberguy each did other Fracnhises for Hours: And countless say 'I dont even know this Franchise but i enjoyed this so much'. I can only warmly recommend watching Good-Faith-Criticism, especially from the just-mentioned RU-vidrs.

I think you're judging this anime kinda hard. Add some robots and every body's full glass of tang from mom and this could another Neon Genesis Evangelion.

L ron hubbard in particular did both but as he said “You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.” but funny enough, despite begin infamous as the founder of scientology, hubbard still gets acclaim as a scifi author and there's even a literary award named after him for science fiction writers. and for artists in general, it's said that very few ever become famous within their own lifetime

@@gusty7153 Sure, there's a SF award named after L Ron Hubbard, but you have to remember who is *backing* that award. And also who is backing Hubbard's "Writers of the Future" contest/seminar.

​@@SenileOtaku the point i was making was trying to explain to OP on how it makes a lot of sense for someone talented enough in science fiction to found a religion instead, and my example used was the one guy who was most famous at doing both and with emphasis on how he's well known for both and not just one or the other. anyways i really don't know who is backing the award and don't care. considering it's l ron hubbard i'm talking about here, my assumption would have to be NO FUCKING SHIT OF COURSE IT'S THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY WHAT EVEN IS YOUR POINT?

Except this religion isn't creative or well thought out. It's really basic standard cult fluff, only standing out because of these animes and that while most cults prey on the emotionally vulnerable by promising purpose and joy this one just outright brands itself as a happiness cult

Rule 34 artists: how we did not thought this before!?

@@dovahkiin_brasil >Implying they haven't

I am listening.

hmmm going to hell doesnt seem too bad now

Oh good, I wasn't the only one.

Me too and I am Greek. Srsly this has so many inaccuracies it hurts.

7:45 XD

41:07 Oh GAWD

Gotta store your soul collection somewhere

Not just "very", it literally IS Scientology :P

Check out Plato's Allegory of the Cave. It's first part is exactly like you describe.

Is that why Pureflix and Christian rock bands keep getting money?

@@Elonyx.studios I don't mind Christian rock bands. I'm an atheist, but some of their music sounds good, even if the lyrics are "wrong" to me. I kind of admire people who genuinly believes in something enough to sing rock about it, but that may be because I'm extremely sceptic as well.

@@Elonyx.studios all depends on why they do it. Skillet has been massive for years now, yet a good probably 40-60% of their fans have 0 idea they're a Christian rock/metal band. They just wanna make music about what they love, doesn't matter how we feel on the topic. We're their for the music

Yes. This is brainwashing for members already in it, like most cult propaganda. Not really for outsiders.

THIS

It's the biggest bummer. I know the inevitable cameos or reunion of some of the KRC is gonna feel sour with the mention of 'oh, Yuki's in space!' 😔

Not only Fumika Shimizu quits acting, but also Kengo's acting career was stopped because of health reasons, unfortunately.

What?!!... No... Not Jujima Yuki... I've never heard of this.

@@clementj well, if you didn't see her Wikipedia page. She had already joined that POS cult just when she gets bigger roles like Touka from Tokyo Ghoul live-action and Aiko Himeno from Hentai Kamen.

@@jakey14344 IIRC, Justin Tomimori (Shun) has also retired. So far, the relatively greater notables are Sota Fukushi (Gentaro/KR Fourze) and Ryo Yoshizawa (Ryusei/KR Meteor), albeit if only because they've starred in the live-action Bleach movie as, respectively, Ichigo and Uryu.

How’d you get out/realize it was BS?

@@zap4th368 honestly since i didn't read the books until AFTER i got out so I didn't know a whole lot. First was iirc watching the first movie as a kid and getting so confused i mentally noped out of the movie and cemented for me that i didn't want to be in the prayers when i was older bc it was so confusing lol. I noped out so hard the only way I KNOW I watched these movies were particular scenes that I recall. The kids turning into fairies and the ladies in the strange headgear and I didn't even realize they were supposed to be flowers! ( 14:50 ) As for the ACTUAL reason... is a lot funnier than you'd think and happened awhile later. On top of some folks thinking i should see what actual prayer was like because i mentioned the movie REALLY confused me (i would have done that the next week) I got this toy car the day before from my dad and brought it to play. Some kid who had A LOT of toy cars decided my first and only toy car was his. Got so upset by it because everyone who I didn't show off my new car to thought it was his. The person who introduced me to this place knew it was mine when I told her what happened in the car heading back home, told her not to worry about it because I believed it was a lost cause and I needed to grin and bear it. And yeah, never went back. Since a lot of the culture behind happy science was more subliminal than anything because it was hard for me to pay attention purposefully, it's taken me a lot of years to shake off a lot of the bigger philosophies I was taught. It also got me easier into spiritualism, but I have no clue where my thoughts begin and the Happy Science Lore end. It's hard to weed out but I'm still trying my best.

Oh crap

@@someonesaltacct8572 Wow good on you for leaving! It's so scary how that cult conditions people to put up with mistreatment by telling them they must be happy all the time.

I think there's a Korean animated show about Classical Mythology.

Never, because Greek crap is for Europeans. Japan has much more important historical events to learn about like Nobunaga again. But this time with robots.

@@jorisheppard8996 how about nobunaga again, but this time everyone's a woman. And make tokugawa a loli too while you're at it.

@@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis how about a Nobunaga who is a literal demon lord. Or combining it with Norio Wakamoto/John Swasey's extra hammy acting, Sawano drops and Double-Barreled Shotgun. Or a walking Rie Kugimiya meme (loli, shota, and mommy Nobu).

@@jorisheppard8996 They already did that, it's called Nobunaga The Fool.

It's torture isn't it? Constant mental whiplash.

Being a European who grew up on the stuff is honestly the same... But it feels far more like satire so I can't be mad...

🤝

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Any given Yugioh mythos - even that of Arc-V(a) - is better than THIS crap.

...in attack mode!

Sounds like a stand user

Sounds like it would be a gimmicky level 10 0 ATK/ 0 DEF Light Fairy with “You must special summon this card by banishing 3 Light attribute monsters from your GY. This card cannot be special summoned by any other ways. During your battle phase, this card gains 10,000 ATK. You can banish the top card from your deck to negate an attack or card effect that targets this card.”

My God, you're right!

Same, my brain just had a BSOD.

I showed this to my friend who is in grad school studying greek mythology... he has yet to forgive me...

It's too bad that the animation is beautiful

I simultaneously love and hate that it isnt even consistent in its own inconsistency. At some parts it matches almost 1:1 with the stablished greek mythological lore and at others it goes completely tits up into whatthefuckland

It makes me forgot what the first Anime is

Worked for Joseph Smith!

That's always been a common tactic to draw in followers. Earlier in the life of christianity, christians would argue that pagan gods were not really gods but were in fact powerful angels and saints that are subserviant to God.

@@RayPoreon The Romans would just declare the gods of the various peoples they encountered to be Roman gods by different names. You can see this in Hellenic art of figures like Hermanubis (Anubis is a psychopomp deity in the Egyptian pantheon, so Romans just equated him with Hermes, their own psychopomp) and accounts written by contemporary writers of the people of other countries (Tacitus, the Roman general, describes the Germanic Suebi people as worshiping "Mercury", "Mars", and "Hercules", who are pretty clearly Odin, Tyr, and Thor).

@@philiphart4146 Jesus is a blatant copy of Horus aswell.

@@kirayoshikage4057 No, he isn't. The sum total of the alleged "evidence" are a series of claims that contradict every historically-recorded narrative about Horus (Horus was not born of a virgin, did not have 12 disciples, only has a dying-and-rising myth when he's syncretized with Osiris or Ra, and both of those are very different from the dying-and-rising myth associated with Jesus, he didn't deliver a sermon on the mount, etc.) and the single true claim that some Greek-speaking early Egyptian Christians syncretized a single title of Horus's with Jesus. Calling him a copy at all shows a grave misunderstanding of how religions develop, but calling him a BLATANT copy is an outright lie.

@@philiphart4146 Jesus never existed. Horus never existed. Everything about Jesus is a lie, everything about Horus is a lie. Seems like they're one and the same thing to me, could you please elaborate?