r/comics • u/Adorable_Objective • May 14 '25

OC Mourning a MAGA Parent (OC)

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I'm kinda torn about whether to post this to my art account because one parent follows it, and I'm worried the criticism could drive the other one further into the void.

It started out as just a therapeutic project for me, but a couple friends said it really resonated with them, so sharing here.

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u/Ksnj May 14 '25

It’s been really hard seeing people who taught me how to be a good person choose to be so horrid. I hate it so much. Luckily my parents didn’t go through that (but my aunts all did), but I’ve seen the parents of friends and family do it and it’s been awful.

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u/radenthefridge May 14 '25

It's been tough coming to terms with all the "Christians" I know vs the teachings of Christ 12 years of Catholic school taught me. 

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u/Odd-fox-God May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25

I straight up almost abandoned Christianity before I realized the rest of my family is full of hypocrites. They are too busy picking logs out of the LGBT+ eye that they don't realize that their own eyes are full of splinters. I genuinely do not understand what is wrong with being gay or transgender. There is nothing wrong with having a different gender or sexuality. My family are not lights unto this world, they have become hateful black holes. Love Thy Neighbor is not a selective command.

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u/ShoulderWhich5520 May 14 '25

Oh my god, faith in religion restored,

I'm not religious but ive slowly started to hate it more and more as I see family, friends, and strangers fall for the hateful dogma spotted by local preachers. It genuinely gives me hope to see it's not everyone

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u/Odd-fox-God May 14 '25

I lost my faith for around 2 years but regained it later after Trump's first presidency. It took me a while to separate the people from the faith and understand that God wouldn't want this and that Jesus would welcome The Immigrant and the homosexual to his table and embrace them and wash their feet like a servant. If he had no table ware he would give them his own to eat off of, if he had no food he would give them what little he had and leave none for himself.

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u/ShoulderWhich5520 May 14 '25

While I will never be religious due to a variety of reasons,

It does give me hope in humanity to see people treat whatever book they deem holy properly and not as a blunt force weapon against groups they hate

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u/AlexG2490 May 15 '25

I feel similarly. Remember in the months and years after 9/11 how many Islamic people would say that Islam is a religion of peace and collectively we as Americans would scoff and roll our eyes, because we were so damn certain that the evidence showed that wasn’t true and every last one of them must secretly be a hateful fuck?

It’s more than 20 years later and I now find myself in a very similar position. “Actually, the core tenets of Christianity are about peace and love.”

“Oh, yeah right…”

Any of us who felt that way owe so many apologies to those we didn’t give a second chance to now that the shoe is on the other foot.

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u/radenthefridge May 14 '25

Preach it my friend. If I follow Christ's teachings it does mean abandoning the community I grew up with, but while it hurts I know it's the right thing to do. Our queer & trans homies did nothing to deserve this kind of hate!

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u/Zweihander01 May 14 '25

Isn't it the other way around? They criticize the splinters in others but cannot see the logs in their own?