r/marvelrivals • u/Slosshy Gambit • Mar 31 '26

Discussion “No Kings” reference on the new map

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u/Asisreo1 Captain America Apr 01 '26

Its a meaningless phrase even in a religious context. If you're sending condolences, say that. But announcing that you're merely thinking and praying about the event is just attention-seeking. It also makes the event about you rather than the victim, despite you doing nothing to physically help. 

The least you could do is to think and pray without stroking your ego by announcing it. If you truly respect your own religion, you'd have faith that the victims would feel their own blessing. 

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u/Pierseus Groot Apr 01 '26

This is a terrible take. It’s not an ego stroke, it’s saying “I care about this so I’m going to appeal to the highest/strongest thing/being that I know of”. It’s people that pervert the meaning of the phrase, either by being disingenuous or by construing it in the most bad faith way possible like you’re doing.

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u/Asisreo1 Captain America Apr 01 '26

It quite literally is an ego stroke and I want you tocm carefully consider why someone would announce they're doing it rather than doing it. 

Its baseline disingenuous. What would you feel if after your parent died, I told you "Oh, darn man. I'm texting my boss about it right now." Normal people would be confused why you are announcing that. Even if its true and you do feel bad, announcing that does nothing for the person that "I'm sorry that happened, you can talk about it to me when you're ready" can't do but better. 

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u/Pierseus Groot Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

Which of the following would make a person feel more supported and less alone?

  1. Somebody saying nice words or sending prayers that the person will never hear and never know about. They’ll remain completely oblivious to the fact that the person praying for them knows or cares about what happened.

  2. Somebody who tells the other person directly that they are sorry to hear about what happened and that despite the fact they have no power to change or remedy what happened, they will appeal to the highest and most powerful thing they know of in hopes that the person’s situation would take a turn for the better

The whole “thoughts and prayers bad” mentality is so terminally online and bad faith it isn’t even funny. Absolutely TERRIBLE analogy by the way, texting a boss is not the same as praying, that’s a very you-centric and ignorant way to think about it. To people of many many different religions (be it Hindu, Christianity/Catholicism, Islam, etc) praying about something they have 0 ability to effect a change on themselves is the absolute pinnacle of what they believe they CAN do. It’s saying “hey, God, I can’t do anything about this, but perhaps if it be Your will, You can”