Hey! I am not from america but my father lives in Georgia and we call once a week and chat a bit.
We talked about the horrible fires in california and his wife (they are together since like 7 years) was in the backround removed*** around: “They mocked god, that is what they deserved I guess!”
Yo really?
Come on… I am atheist I left the church but I never had a problem with people who believe in god. It’s not what I believe in and everyone is free to believe in whatever they want to as long as they are happy.
It’s not only her comment. It’s under a lot of youtube comments to LA Fires, for example this:
“This is a lesson for every atheist, every arrogant person, and every polytheist: God is great and God is mighty”
WOW.
Pathetic. I can throw up. If god exists which is very unlikely I am very happy to go to hell with my beliefs because hell might be a less toxic place to be than in heaven with those mega worshipers.
It’s really like only 10% of christians that are that extreme. It’s not the majority I know but if I look at america it’s those deep red state god worshipers and they are everywhere in Georgia, Alabama etc.
Churches gotta ban them from the religion and make those people be religionless. They don’t deserve to be in heaven if they keep saying “gods revenge” to california people.
Those are the karens that get hurt if you tell them we are all going to non existence once we vanish from this planet. Why can’t they just be quiet and go to church?!
So many weird people on this planet. Im not rich either and people run around saying they deserved it. What is wrong with most humans?!
Yeah, welcome to my world.
And it’s not just with the loud fundamentalists who hold these attitudes. I completely cut off a friend of almost 20 years who seemed to be one of those “sane” and “quiet” Christians when, in a period of mild intoxication, he let spill everything he actually believed.
He believed women should stay at home keeping house and raising children. Women should not have careers or aspirations beyond that. He believed that all of his friends were going to Hell to be tortured for eternity. (He was fine with this. Absolutely copacetic.) He believed that victims of natural disaster and of crime deserved it because obviously God was doing this to them for a reason.
And that’s when I realized that even the “quiet” and “non-extreme” Christians can have horrors concealed beneath their placid exteriors. So now I give very large side-eye when people think their Christianity is so important to their life that they have to bring it up at all in circles where it’s not relevant.