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In reply to the discussion: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public [View all]Neoma
(10,039 posts)My grandmother is a bully...treated me lke shit since I was 9 because I didn't get baptized. They're also okay with domestic violence. As in, the husband kept beating up his wife and one day he got the preacher and his wife to beat the shit out of her with him and the reaction was, "I wonder what she did." Since after all, the preacher was involved! Must mean she did something evil.
My uncle threatened to kill me when I was 14 and they pushed off about how I was lying. Even though they knew he pointed a shotgun at grandma just a week before all that bullshit. He talks in tongues to control "urges." ...Onto his fourth wife now.
At least two people threatened someone I love to be committed because she's atheist. Including the cop uncle that would have come if we called about my other uncle that threatened to kill me. (For turning the TV off.) So no justice happened there.
No. Fuck em. Their entire life is built on worshipping God. And it tore our family apart. I'm sick of it. They might not be "real Christians" like so many religious people point out, but they're real southern baptists to the core. When it comes to the point where they're using the bible to pass bigoted opinions and to justify or forgive misdeeds, I'm out and I'm not going back.