Was at a friends dads’ funeral about 20 years ago.The priest loudly told an absolutely packed chapel that ” he was a bad man ” and “he will go to hell”.
That my terminally ill dad would recover if I prayed for him enough. I was just a kid and I believed it! But I failed to convince God to save my dad, obviously. Heavy failure to face.
(To say nothing of the fact that the guy saying that singlehandedly undid all the work my mom had done trying to help me understand that my dad was going to die. Not what any of us needed.)
The worst part is how long it took me to realize how messed up that is. It was 20 years ago and I’m still not over it.
I don’t where the fuck y’all get your pastors from 😭😭 My last one said all people who aren’t religious (but aren’t aware of the existence of God/Christianity) automatically go to heaven as long as they’re good people in this life. Y’all need to check y’all churches or sumn ’cause wtf
An acquaintance who believes in reincarnation asked me what horrible things my mom must have done in a previous life to deserve the horrible things she was experiencing in this one. I wanted to punch him.
4 years ago, I was in a horrific car accident with my kids (I will say before proceeding that everyone survived). My daughter was almost killed, she was severely injured, was unconscious, and needed surgery. My son was ok physically but still suffers from PTSD.
After the accident, so many religious family members and friends attempted to calm me by explaining to me that God had a plan and this was part of his plan to make us stronger
My. Child. Almost, Died. God hurt her so badly to make us stronger???
It was implied/told that “God has a plan and reason for everything” after my grandfather committed self-deletion and I was forced to stay the night with my grandma in the house he had done it (sleeping literally only one room away from where it happened) maybe a week or two later as she, in the middle of the night, told me exactly what happened that night in great detail….I was only around 12/13 when this happened, and was already struggling with extreme depression and self-deletion ideation myself.
My wife’s grandmother, who was a “born again” Christian said the following to me after finding out that my mom died, ” good, now your dad can see what it’s like to be alone.” I was trying to get home from N.C to the pnw. Sooo bitter.
My mom had just died. She was a Jehovahs Witness and I was in the process of doubting the religion. My mom’s best friend told me something to the effect of “you better not ever leave the organization if you want to see your mom again”.
JW’s believe that Armageddon is going to happen any day now, and only baptized, believing, active JW’s will survive. God’s going to kill everyone else. So that was the context.
The only word they said to me was ‘F*ggot” as they waved a gun at me and tried to run me off the road for having a rainbow flag on my bumper. I’m going to assume from the giant cross on the back of their truck that they were overly religious, but I didn’t stick around to find out.
That it was god’s design for my best friend’s mom to get cancer (she had quit the day before and we worked at the same place, this was said to me by my employer who had noooo problem taking advantage of teenagers—ya know, as god intended).
I went to a Baptist wedding, which should have been joyful. We’re all told you’re gonna burn in hell. Especially non-believers. I don’t believe that crap so I’ll see the bully behind the pulpit in hell.
Said my ex’s mom who was a Christian and didn’t like that I turned down her pass at me when I was 15. Woman was nice and sweet to me til the day I said to her “I’m with your daughter, I can’t “. Everything after that was just straight emotional abuse from her.
That if I wore a two piece swimsuit and a man lusted after me he might then go and rape someone and it would be partially my fault. I was like 12 when I was told this.
Or that we were living in the end times. I literally grew up thinking I wouldn’t make it to adulthood so that was pretty rough.
That because my parents hadn’t baptised me, I would def be burning in hell for all eternity. The lovely priest then described in graphic detail what hell is like. I was 6 years old.
My family converted to Mormonism when I was a teenager. Fast forward 25 years and we were all out except my sister who stayed active. She died of cancer at 41 and left 4 children. An old childhood friend’s mother called me, I thought to offer her condolences. She was evangelical Christian. I was telling her how devastated my parents were and she said “If one of my children died, I’d be fine because I KNOW they’d be in heaven”. Fuck you bitch. That was 25 years ago and I’m still pissed I didn’t say anything back to her.
i don’t even know what the dude was saying but he was yelling through a megaphone at 8am in front of courthouse as i was stuck in line trying to go to jury duty. just making a shitty situation even worse
That a friend of mine had committed suicide because I didn’t pray enough for him and that people who commit suicide go to a place worse than hell.
The person who told me that was over multiple churches in an area, and I had known him for several years prior to this. He was the start of me falling away from my church and religion altogether.
He agreed that conversion therapy was torture, but said that I deserved to be subjected to a year and a half of it as a minor, and said he’d do the same to his kids if they ever came out. He also said Lot’s daughters getting him drunk and raping Lot is morally correct “because it was necessary,” but gay sex is a horrible sin. It’s been a while since I’ve last read Genesis, but I am 95% sure the daughters did that on their own. They weren’t instructed to rape their father by God. The Bible doesn’t explicitly criticize them, but it doesn’t explicitly praise them either.
I learned an old Air Force buddy had committed suicide. I was still in shock when I mentioned it to my workout partner. First words out of his mouth: “Well, he’s going to hell.”
I was proposing a psychological research hypothesis to my team about romantic AI bots obsoletion being negatively correlated with maladaptive expression of mental health disorders online.
Someone from my team said that it was evil, and that I had a darkness in me. I pushed back on this, stressing that people who need help the most are often demonized and as a mental health advocate, we need to keep an open mind.
I dropped it after that and even supported their idea they proposed without issue but, they kept harassing me and even started yelling at me in front of others. Telling me I was a liar and a deceiver and I had “darkness” which really fucked with me. It started to escalate so much that my team decided as a group this person was not a good fit.
They later reported me to the department for discrimination.
This is a highly important topic and a problem we are going to see more of unless it is address right now. I don’t care how much “darkness” I have in me- mental health is my priority.
My estranged Aunt told doctors that my mum couldn’t have a blood transfusion because she was a Johovas witness. We didn’t even know whacky aunt was a Johovas witness or how she found out about the surgery. Surgeon pulled the pin on the surgery whilst mum was under anaesthesia. took 9 months to get another theatre spot.
Someone told me that the man who raped me when I was 12 (my stepdad) would go to heaven because he accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior but I was going to Hell because I hadn’t accepted Jesus. Even if she believed it, she didn’t really need to tell me.
That all Jews should be drowned. By my brother & sister to my dad & me. Dad-of-blessed-memory & I are Jewish, they’re “Christian”. Christian is in quotes bc thats not a very Christian stmt. Yep. NC with them. Oh they also believe a man becomes a teacher to recruit gays. Yep NC
My mother-in-law called me the child of the devil for not being baptized. I thought it was funny, my mom didn’t. She also says her son is blessed by God for being a good person. Jokes on her though, she doesn’t even know her son is agnostic.
My aunt told me that people who believe in evolution are wrong and are going to hell.
Finally, I’ve been told by a couple of people trying to convert me that it’s not too late, I can still save my soul and not go to hell if I just switch to whatever religion they represent.
My mom regularly told me and my friends about how great it was to remain a virgin until marriage. One of my friends was raped by her father when she was eight years old. I had asked my mom to stop saying that to my friends for years, and she only did when I gave her details.
Semi-related: I came out as a lesbian to my mom at 24. I came out as a sex haver at 27. The comments finally died.
Witnessed a prison chaplain say this to a prisoner (juvenile corrections). Prisoners would often roll cigarettes in paper taken from a Bible. Chaplain told the kid he’s going to he’ll for that. God will not forgive that.
That i was the devil and that god by the hand of man will kill me for my devilish ways. I never laughed so hard in my life. Looking back on it, it was rather creepy still funny as fuck tho.
“God doesn’t have to do anything for you.” -Mom-
My Mother is a highly religious woman who has been a Preacher for 25+ years at a small Pentecostal Church in Oklahoma. She also has the same haircut since I was 5 years old. Which is a long feathered mullet. Let’s just say that as an Athiest I don’t trust her judgment & we don’t share the same views about life.
“Your immortal soul is in peril!” My neighbor didn’t like the religion I was raised in. I was trying to tell her I had left that church. I gave up and walked away.
That if a women behaves or dresses a certain way, she deserves to be sexually assaulted.
This was said by my mother in law and sister in law, and my young daughter and niece were within ear shot. The amount of restraint I had to summon was superhuman.
I’m chatting with this super religious dude one time, just small talk, nothing wild. Out of nowhere, he tell me that if you don’t believe exactly what I believe, you’re going to burn forever. And the way he said it was so casual too, not angry and not even emotional.
“He must atone for his sins, for we are all sinners in the eyes of the lord”, or something to that extent, during the speech of one of those pricks at my paternal grandfather’s funeral. The man never harmed anyone, so that made me livid. Fuck religion and christianity in particular.
My uncle: “In god’s eyes, if your cousin* were to go down to the corner store and steal a candy bar right now, she would be no better than Hitler. Sin is sin.”
*My cousin is his daughter. She was 7 at the time.
That I was 🍇ed bc I didn’t have a good enough relationship with God.
Or possibly the lady that told me it was impossible to be 🍇ed because that’s what women were made for. That we aren’t supposed to like it, but we are supposed to give men whatever they want.
I have worried about her 3 daughters ever since I left the church.
I used to work in a very catholic private school, and we had mass every wednesday. The things the priest would say… Some examples:
During women’s day, he talked about the role women should have, which was “talking, but not too much”.
After abortion for very specific cases was approved in my country (i.e. abuse, illness, etc), he spent a whole hour on a rant against abortion. Keep in mind this was a mass where at least half of the audience were 10 year old and younger children.
He often talked about how he was an exorcist and told stories about devils he expelled. Children got scared and even our very religious principal had to tell him to stop.
This one was VERY random and weird. Keep in mind he was a very white person, and we don’t live in the US, but this one time he told us a story about him travelling to the US many years ago, and he was talking to somebody when suddenly Obama walked by. The person he was talking to told him “look! That guy will be next president” and his answer (exactly as he said it during the mass in a bilingual school) was “That N—-, president of the United States?!”. Yes. He did say the word. How was that in any way related to the mass? I have no idea.
The ending: there were some older students (15 yo or so) who helped him with the rituals of the mass, including helping deliver the sacramental bread during the communion rite. For the non-catholic in the audience, this is a rite where people receive a very thin piece of consecrated bread that is supposed to represent the body of Jesus, and they eat it while they pray. People form a line and a person, either the priest or his helpers, puts the bread in their mouth. Well, one of these students made the slightest of movements to mess with a friend who was in line. Imagine doing the motion to give him the bread and then moving it back. A dumb joke, sure. Inappropriate even, if you want. But what happened next was the priest exploded. “SACRILEGY, SACRILEGY, SACRILEGY”. We were all shocked, and he began screaming how in all of his years as a priest he had never seen anything more sacrilegious (keep in mind he did say he was an exorcist so I guess the demons he expelled were pretty chill), and he did not stop screaming for several minutes. We decided to take the children out of the church and send them to their classrooms while the guy was still screaming, and I got tired of the guy so I went to talk to the school admin to see if we could get rid of him. Thankfully when I got there he was screaming at the head coordinator about how this school was filled with evil. I told him “Hey, I’m sorry, don’t you think if what this student was so wrong your reaction as a representative of god in a school should be to patiently explain to him why it was wrong?”, he turns towards me, says “Thank you for your opinion”, then turns towards the admin again and screams “I WILL NEVER COME BACK TO THIS SCHOOL”. We never saw him again.
Besides any generic homophobic thing shouted in general during pride, and said to me personally –
When I was 11, one of my mother’s friends lived with us for a bit. And one day out of nowhere, she accused me of going through her stuff and breaking her camera (she had a cat she kept in the room and said she kept the camera on a nightstand — I assume the cat knocked it off). I was a pretty well behaved kid, had an intense fear of getting in trouble and authority at that age, so I have no idea where she got it in her head it was me. So anyway, I obviously didn’t do it, but she wouldn’t listen and insisted instead that it “just had to be” me who broke it. Finally after a few minutes, in the most faux-saccharin voice, she goes “you know, liars burn in Hell for eternity.” and walked away.
Again, I was 11 lol. And as a religious kid, it stunned me to be threatened with Hell over something I hadn’t even done.
I didn’t do my math homework one day in third grade so my grandma screamed at me for five hours straight about how my laziness had already damned me to an eternity in hell and there was nothing I could do at that point to undo it. She then had her priest do a sermon about it the next time I went to church with her, just to make sure an eight year old knew without a doubt he’d be going to hell for not doing homework once
A lady at my mom’s church told her that my 12 year old brother’s death from cancer was punishment for an abortion she had several years prior. I can tell it hurt my mom badly by the way she recounted this story. There are some truly empty, heartless people out there.
An old woman asked me for a ride to church at a gas station. I gave her a ride, and when she asked me if I was Christian, I said no. She told me I’m going to hell. There’s no hate like Christian love.
That she wouldn’t take a religious studies course because she’d have to consider other religions as equal to Christianity. Which isn’t actually true as the purpose of studying religion isn’t to generate rankings. It was sad that she thought learning something was anti-Christian. Plus she was Catholic and Catholicism has produced many important scholars and intellectuals.
My dad, who grew up as a Traditional Catholic, told me about how he didn’t like an aunt on my mom’s side who wasn’t religious. He didn’t like her sexual licentiousness. Meanwhile he seemed to have forgotten that he lived with a woman for a few years between his first and second wives confessing that sin of living with her to a priest every week who would give him one hail mary as penance.
My marriage will never be real, and my future child will never be accepted to heaven because I myself am not Catholic, but my husband is. I’ve been Christian my whole life, started dating a Catholic, got married in a Catholic church, and when we had our child, she was baptized by a Catholic priest. She still acts like my family is going to rot in hell. But whatever.
That hell is so scary and fiery & you can’t leave and are indefinitely burning. Since you wanted to live in a world separated from God, then your cries will fall on deaf ears when you die.
It’s a scary thought if it’s real.
When my mom was going through some stuff, someone in the church said it was because I wasn’t a good enough Christian. When the youth pastor saw me a few months later and asked why I wasn’t attending Sunday service, I told him he didn’t blame me for not going.
I’ll amend that. Best thing i told a born-again Christian, who I sat next to on a plane and wouldn’t shut up until I told her that only 30% of the world was Christian and that more people knew who Ronald McDonald was than Jesus Christ and she shut right up
That he’d prayed and talked to his friends at Bible study and decided that God told him that me being pregnant with his baby was my problem. By the end of that conversation he had screamed at me that if I didn’t have an abortion then me and my baby could go to hell. Yes, I terminated his parental rights.
When I worked at a vet clinic and recommended a woman spay her dog, she said she’s catholic and pro life?? Then went on about gods will and some shit. Dog died of pyometra last year I heard.
Not the worst but the most memorable and weirdest
At 15 years old I had decided to remain a virgin until I was married. I stayed faithful and loyal to the ministry and when I was around 17 I mentioned to the youth minister how I was still following this vow. She said “wow I didn’t think you could do it.” I was really hurt since know I know I am asexual so I never understood why she’d think I’d even be sexual active let alone disobey God.
That it is a shame to know that someone as nice as I am is going to hell.
Or maybe it was the guy who saw me check out a library book about Salem, Massachusetts and started leaving bibles tucked in between the doors of my duplex, with sticky notes on passages like “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”
When I was in middle school, one of the office secretaries took me aside and spent about 15 minutes preaching at me about how my reading, especially of fiction, was sinful and somehow contributed to my parents’ divorce. They divorced when I was 2.
That a local man from my hometown who had died, who was a well known pillar of the community and gave his all to support those in need, was destined for hell because he wasn’t ‘saved’
That “God doesn’t give you more than you can handle”. I was going through a period of severe OCD and I was questioning why God would give someone OCD. I was 16 years old at the time.
“I’m tired of these degenerates take over my country.”
Friend of over 20 years. It saddens me to know he harbors so much hate in his heart. I had to cut him off after that, I can’t hang out with someone the rest of my friend wouldn’t feel comfortable around.
I was in the hospital waiting for news about my mom. A friend came to see how things were and brought a friend of theirs ( someone I never met ). The person was super religious and asked me if it was ok for them to pray for my mom. I’m not religious but positive vibes come from all over so of course I didn’t mind. After they prayed we talked a bit and they asked about my father, I told them I didn’t know him and my mother was a lesbian and had a girlfriend. They then proceeded to ask if my mom was religious and I told them yes she is and they tell me she’s going to go to hell and needs to repent and change her evil ways. Mind you I am in the hospital waiting to see if she was going to be ok or if she was dying literally and this asshole starts talking shit like this to me. My mom is Christian I’m not so even though I don’t believe in heaven and hell she does. I mean seriously you don’t say shit like that to someone you just met and especially during a time so scary. My mom was fine and pulled through and I told her about what was said and she laughed and laughed. She told me she’s a good person and she will go where she’s supposed to when she’s dies.
“Jesus doesn’t love you because you got pregnant out of wedlock.”
This woman had burnt her house down with her family inside because her husband was molesting her kids, and then her boys were doing the same to their younger sisters.
Instead of reporting it, she just burnt her house down.
Went to church with my brother one time. Pastor came out and started with this “everyone here is going to hell”. “I want you all to go to the mall or sit in public, and pretend everyone has a sign that says destined for hell”. After being told we were all pieces of shit they passed around a bucket asking for money. The kid started at me with looks that could kill since I didn’t donate anything. They seemed to be doing fine moneywise. Had stained glass, marble floors, didn’t look like money was a shortage to me. Anyways, brother and I went out to breakfast afterwards and didn’t speak a word to each other.
As if ONLY PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED EXACTLY LIKE SHE DID COULD POSSIBLY BE GOOD!!!
That was the first time I dropped the F-bomb on her, telling her she was fucking crazy if she felt that way, and others in history who have said similar things have cause genocides and holocausts.
That the Lord never gives us more than we can cope with; the evening of the day I had been working with the child protection team at work, including a child who had been SA the previous night who needed examined.
I walked away because if I said anything I didn’t know whether I would start crying, scream at the person about my day +/- punch them and tell them to cope with it
my dad wouldn’t walk me down the aisle, give a speech, or dance with me at my wedding. i’m a woman and was marrying a woman. my dad and i had always been very close so this broke my heart. i’d had a father/daughter dance song picked out since i was a kid. luckily we’ve had plenty of conversations since then and we’re okay now, but the hurt still lingers.
“You’ve lost everything in your life (job, wife, apartment, family) because God is testing you.”
Old boy couldn’t have just put a wallet in the street for me to turn in or ignore, he had to make me literally homeless, destitute and soul crushingly lonely. Got it.
I was visiting my sister in the hospital. She was recovering from surgery for the same benign but invasive brain tumor that I had JUST been diagnosed with. (I know, bad luck.)
Two of my mom’s church friends were there. They literally backed me into a corner to explain that God was doing what HE needed to do to bring us back into the fold.
So… don’t backslide. Because God will give you a brain tumor.
People who have down syndrome will go to hell because they don’t understand sin snd can’t repent. In regards to me as a kid asking will my sister go to heaven
Not the worst thing, but when you’re at a wake, in the line for someone that died for an overdose, and they say “everything happens for a reason…” So if I kill you now it was God’s will?
I was told that being raped was my fault/God’s punishment for bot being an obedient daughter and good Catholic. I was then later told it was the Lord’s blessing in disguise because when I had gone to the doctor’s afterwards they found a very localized amount of cervical cancer at a ridiculously early stage and were able to get most of it with a biopsy, then were able to cut out the remaining amount with only one more procedure, and later confirmed over 4 more years of testing and checkups that they had gotten it all and it didn’t come back.
I was later asked if all of that had renewed my faith because how could I not believe in god after all of that. To this day I don’t know how I managed to not punch the ever loving shit out of them.
I had a debate with an acquaintance who is a Christian about 3 or 4 years ago now. I was pointing out things that I don’t like Christianity. His response was that “God is not a tyrant and that it’s hard to explain”. He never bothered to explain things the next time we met up and sounds like he’s making up excuses to justify his beliefs. What really upset me was him saying that “life is fair” and didn’t seem like he care about what other people have to struggle in their lives.
On Easter of all days, I was told I was going to burn in Hell for all eternity because I did not claim Jesus Christ in my heart as the one true savior…🙄
Honestly, I don’t have a real problem with religious people. But my friend once invited me to his youth group, and the guest that night was apparently the “Christian Cop” in our town(?), and he said “I wish I could pull over and arrest everyone I see with a Darwin fish on their car” and everyone clapped. I was just about to stand up, because I actually HAD a Darwin fish on my car, in the parking lot, and my friend pulled me down with a “dude, not now” energy, so I just sat back and daydreamed for the rest of the whatever. It was just so shocking to me at the time to see a law enforcement person say they wish they could enforce their beliefs BY LAW, and have a room full of people agree with him.
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I’m going to hell
“Anyone who chooses a life of sodomy will burn in the hell they created for themselves, both in this life and after.”
You’re going to hell because you don’t share my beliefs
Was at a friends dads’ funeral about 20 years ago.The priest loudly told an absolutely packed chapel that ” he was a bad man ” and “he will go to hell”.
That my terminally ill dad would recover if I prayed for him enough. I was just a kid and I believed it! But I failed to convince God to save my dad, obviously. Heavy failure to face.
(To say nothing of the fact that the guy saying that singlehandedly undid all the work my mom had done trying to help me understand that my dad was going to die. Not what any of us needed.)
The worst part is how long it took me to realize how messed up that is. It was 20 years ago and I’m still not over it.
I’m going to hell, because I’m not enough of a Christian.
“I promise to uphold the constitution of the united states…”
That family with the kid that died from cancer… well, it only happened because the parents didn’t pray hard enough.
That if I ever decide to cut (or even trim) my hair I will go to hell for damaging my appearance and making myself look less appealing to men
My father is a priest and told me when I was a teenager that he would rather I get addicted to drugs than have sex before marriage
That I’m not schizophrenic, it’s the holy spirit and god’s angels.
Turns out, I was schizophrenic. Who would’ve guessed!
i should learn how to take care of my future husband
I was told to fear god and that I’ll burn in hell. Sadly the old bloke died a year later
What good is a god and their followers if they can’t handle criticism.
I don’t where the fuck y’all get your pastors from 😭😭 My last one said all people who aren’t religious (but aren’t aware of the existence of God/Christianity) automatically go to heaven as long as they’re good people in this life. Y’all need to check y’all churches or sumn ’cause wtf
Take your pick:
Slavery is not a bad thing.
It’s not murder if god tells you to kill someone.
There is nothing wrong with child brides.
Women were made to serve men.
Gay people should be killed (but apparently they were fine with lesbians).
That my life purpose was to have children because I am a woman.
An acquaintance who believes in reincarnation asked me what horrible things my mom must have done in a previous life to deserve the horrible things she was experiencing in this one. I wanted to punch him.
All of it
If I didn’t return to his church he’d break my arm… I was like 15, and never went back (the girl I was trying to impress wasn’t interested)
Nah. I avoid them.
4 years ago, I was in a horrific car accident with my kids (I will say before proceeding that everyone survived). My daughter was almost killed, she was severely injured, was unconscious, and needed surgery. My son was ok physically but still suffers from PTSD.
After the accident, so many religious family members and friends attempted to calm me by explaining to me that God had a plan and this was part of his plan to make us stronger
My. Child. Almost, Died. God hurt her so badly to make us stronger???
It was implied/told that “God has a plan and reason for everything” after my grandfather committed self-deletion and I was forced to stay the night with my grandma in the house he had done it (sleeping literally only one room away from where it happened) maybe a week or two later as she, in the middle of the night, told me exactly what happened that night in great detail….I was only around 12/13 when this happened, and was already struggling with extreme depression and self-deletion ideation myself.
My wife’s grandmother, who was a “born again” Christian said the following to me after finding out that my mom died, ” good, now your dad can see what it’s like to be alone.” I was trying to get home from N.C to the pnw. Sooo bitter.
That it couldn’t be that bad as god allowed it. This was in regard to my being raped repeatedly when I was 11-17 by a family member.
Babies that are raped are part of gods plan. Said to me and about 200 other demonstrators by a local conservative politician.
My mom had just died. She was a Jehovahs Witness and I was in the process of doubting the religion. My mom’s best friend told me something to the effect of “you better not ever leave the organization if you want to see your mom again”.
JW’s believe that Armageddon is going to happen any day now, and only baptized, believing, active JW’s will survive. God’s going to kill everyone else. So that was the context.
The only word they said to me was ‘F*ggot” as they waved a gun at me and tried to run me off the road for having a rainbow flag on my bumper. I’m going to assume from the giant cross on the back of their truck that they were overly religious, but I didn’t stick around to find out.
That it was god’s design for my best friend’s mom to get cancer (she had quit the day before and we worked at the same place, this was said to me by my employer who had noooo problem taking advantage of teenagers—ya know, as god intended).
I went to a Baptist wedding, which should have been joyful. We’re all told you’re gonna burn in hell. Especially non-believers. I don’t believe that crap so I’ll see the bully behind the pulpit in hell.
That my lupus is punishment for my bio parents having conceived me in sin (which in that is A WHOLE ‘NOTHER can of worms).
“God will punish you for being with my daughter”
Said my ex’s mom who was a Christian and didn’t like that I turned down her pass at me when I was 15. Woman was nice and sweet to me til the day I said to her “I’m with your daughter, I can’t “. Everything after that was just straight emotional abuse from her.
That if I wore a two piece swimsuit and a man lusted after me he might then go and rape someone and it would be partially my fault. I was like 12 when I was told this.
Or that we were living in the end times. I literally grew up thinking I wouldn’t make it to adulthood so that was pretty rough.
I was told that my illness was God’s retribution for choosing to be gay. And that I deserved the illness.
“God doesn’t put anything on us we can’t handle.” I beg to differ.
That I’ll never see my dogs in heaven
That because my parents hadn’t baptised me, I would def be burning in hell for all eternity. The lovely priest then described in graphic detail what hell is like. I was 6 years old.
At my stepson, who killed himself was going to burn in hell. Not helpful.
My family converted to Mormonism when I was a teenager. Fast forward 25 years and we were all out except my sister who stayed active. She died of cancer at 41 and left 4 children. An old childhood friend’s mother called me, I thought to offer her condolences. She was evangelical Christian. I was telling her how devastated my parents were and she said “If one of my children died, I’d be fine because I KNOW they’d be in heaven”. Fuck you bitch. That was 25 years ago and I’m still pissed I didn’t say anything back to her.
i don’t even know what the dude was saying but he was yelling through a megaphone at 8am in front of courthouse as i was stuck in line trying to go to jury duty. just making a shitty situation even worse
I’ve been told by many averagely religious people that I’m going to hell. Because I’m Jewish.
That we seven-year-olds put Jesus on the Cross. Thanks, Sister Madeleine.
Your loverrs are a lifestyle.
My ex in laws are JW. I used to build big art at Burning Man and was particularly proud of our 2018 build.
I tried to have the in laws look, but the Father called me a heathen and told me I would be judged when my time came.
It did and still does give me the creeps.
That a friend of mine had committed suicide because I didn’t pray enough for him and that people who commit suicide go to a place worse than hell.
The person who told me that was over multiple churches in an area, and I had known him for several years prior to this. He was the start of me falling away from my church and religion altogether.
That my mother’s suicide was my punishment for sinning. I was 8.
That I, a woman, am an affront to God because I have chosen to not have children.
Said loudly, at work, in the cafeteria in front of 100 other people. By one of the owners of the company.
That if god told him to kill his own son (who was hypothetical thankfully) like he did with moses, he would without hesitation
He agreed that conversion therapy was torture, but said that I deserved to be subjected to a year and a half of it as a minor, and said he’d do the same to his kids if they ever came out. He also said Lot’s daughters getting him drunk and raping Lot is morally correct “because it was necessary,” but gay sex is a horrible sin. It’s been a while since I’ve last read Genesis, but I am 95% sure the daughters did that on their own. They weren’t instructed to rape their father by God. The Bible doesn’t explicitly criticize them, but it doesn’t explicitly praise them either.
Called me a backslider
I learned an old Air Force buddy had committed suicide. I was still in shock when I mentioned it to my workout partner. First words out of his mouth: “Well, he’s going to hell.”
I was proposing a psychological research hypothesis to my team about romantic AI bots obsoletion being negatively correlated with maladaptive expression of mental health disorders online.
Someone from my team said that it was evil, and that I had a darkness in me. I pushed back on this, stressing that people who need help the most are often demonized and as a mental health advocate, we need to keep an open mind.
I dropped it after that and even supported their idea they proposed without issue but, they kept harassing me and even started yelling at me in front of others. Telling me I was a liar and a deceiver and I had “darkness” which really fucked with me. It started to escalate so much that my team decided as a group this person was not a good fit.
They later reported me to the department for discrimination.
A year later, this article came out:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/10/30/tech/teen-suicide-character-ai-lawsuit
This is a highly important topic and a problem we are going to see more of unless it is address right now. I don’t care how much “darkness” I have in me- mental health is my priority.
My estranged Aunt told doctors that my mum couldn’t have a blood transfusion because she was a Johovas witness. We didn’t even know whacky aunt was a Johovas witness or how she found out about the surgery. Surgeon pulled the pin on the surgery whilst mum was under anaesthesia. took 9 months to get another theatre spot.
Someone told me that the man who raped me when I was 12 (my stepdad) would go to heaven because he accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior but I was going to Hell because I hadn’t accepted Jesus. Even if she believed it, she didn’t really need to tell me.
My husband died young and suddenly when our twins were babies.
Was told that God needed him more than we did.
I responded with “no, our children needed a father and they will never know him”.
My baby’s death was God’s plan.
That all Jews should be drowned. By my brother & sister to my dad & me. Dad-of-blessed-memory & I are Jewish, they’re “Christian”. Christian is in quotes bc thats not a very Christian stmt. Yep. NC with them. Oh they also believe a man becomes a teacher to recruit gays. Yep NC
“God called me to Egypt, but he didn’t call me to learn Arabic.”
🙄
My mother-in-law called me the child of the devil for not being baptized. I thought it was funny, my mom didn’t. She also says her son is blessed by God for being a good person. Jokes on her though, she doesn’t even know her son is agnostic.
My aunt told me that people who believe in evolution are wrong and are going to hell.
Finally, I’ve been told by a couple of people trying to convert me that it’s not too late, I can still save my soul and not go to hell if I just switch to whatever religion they represent.
My mom regularly told me and my friends about how great it was to remain a virgin until marriage. One of my friends was raped by her father when she was eight years old. I had asked my mom to stop saying that to my friends for years, and she only did when I gave her details.
Semi-related: I came out as a lesbian to my mom at 24. I came out as a sex haver at 27. The comments finally died.
Atheists cannot understand what love is, because they reject the love of Jesus.
I was at a rehab, the guy knew I was an atheist. Surprisingly, the rehab didn’t make me a Christian.
That the abuse I suffered at the hands of the church was to bring me closer to God.
Witnessed a prison chaplain say this to a prisoner (juvenile corrections). Prisoners would often roll cigarettes in paper taken from a Bible. Chaplain told the kid he’s going to he’ll for that. God will not forgive that.
That i was the devil and that god by the hand of man will kill me for my devilish ways. I never laughed so hard in my life. Looking back on it, it was rather creepy still funny as fuck tho.
My uncle shot himself when he was 33. At his funeral some women were chatting and said he was in hell. I’ve never wanted to smack someone so hard.
Trumps first term a hypothetical Christian during a conversation told me we all need more religion that’s why they voted Trump.
“God doesn’t have to do anything for you.” -Mom-
My Mother is a highly religious woman who has been a Preacher for 25+ years at a small Pentecostal Church in Oklahoma. She also has the same haircut since I was 5 years old. Which is a long feathered mullet. Let’s just say that as an Athiest I don’t trust her judgment & we don’t share the same views about life.
That the Jews deserved the Holocaust, because they rejected Christ.
Yeah . . . didn’t wind up going to that guy’s church!
That fish were reptiles.
That I got chronically ill because I don’t believe in god.
Religious or not too many are just crazy
That I deserved to burn in Hell for being Catholic
“Your immortal soul is in peril!” My neighbor didn’t like the religion I was raised in. I was trying to tell her I had left that church. I gave up and walked away.
That my friend that was killed by a terrorist bombing, died because she was needed in heaven.
“God hates fags, and if you don’t, you’re going to hell, too.” To which I responded in my best Huckleberry Finn voice, “Well, then, I’ll GO to hell.”
My CCD teacher, right after my dog got put to sleep, told me that she was just dead and that dogs don’t go to heaven.
That if a women behaves or dresses a certain way, she deserves to be sexually assaulted.
This was said by my mother in law and sister in law, and my young daughter and niece were within ear shot. The amount of restraint I had to summon was superhuman.
my daughter’s death was god punishing me
I’m chatting with this super religious dude one time, just small talk, nothing wild. Out of nowhere, he tell me that if you don’t believe exactly what I believe, you’re going to burn forever. And the way he said it was so casual too, not angry and not even emotional.
“He must atone for his sins, for we are all sinners in the eyes of the lord”, or something to that extent, during the speech of one of those pricks at my paternal grandfather’s funeral. The man never harmed anyone, so that made me livid. Fuck religion and christianity in particular.
When I asked a preacher why God condones and even orders genocide in the Bible, he replied
“Anything God does is good because he’s God”
No. Genocide can NEVER be good. Anyone who says otherwise…..I do not want contact with.
My wife was told she didn’t pray hard enough for her mother who died of untreated cancer
My uncle: “In god’s eyes, if your cousin* were to go down to the corner store and steal a candy bar right now, she would be no better than Hitler. Sin is sin.”
*My cousin is his daughter. She was 7 at the time.
Trump was chosen by God to lead America from sin and save America.
That if I walked into a church I would catch on fire.
That I was 🍇ed bc I didn’t have a good enough relationship with God.
Or possibly the lady that told me it was impossible to be 🍇ed because that’s what women were made for. That we aren’t supposed to like it, but we are supposed to give men whatever they want.
I have worried about her 3 daughters ever since I left the church.
I used to work in a very catholic private school, and we had mass every wednesday. The things the priest would say… Some examples:
During women’s day, he talked about the role women should have, which was “talking, but not too much”.
After abortion for very specific cases was approved in my country (i.e. abuse, illness, etc), he spent a whole hour on a rant against abortion. Keep in mind this was a mass where at least half of the audience were 10 year old and younger children.
He often talked about how he was an exorcist and told stories about devils he expelled. Children got scared and even our very religious principal had to tell him to stop.
This one was VERY random and weird. Keep in mind he was a very white person, and we don’t live in the US, but this one time he told us a story about him travelling to the US many years ago, and he was talking to somebody when suddenly Obama walked by. The person he was talking to told him “look! That guy will be next president” and his answer (exactly as he said it during the mass in a bilingual school) was “That N—-, president of the United States?!”. Yes. He did say the word. How was that in any way related to the mass? I have no idea.
The ending: there were some older students (15 yo or so) who helped him with the rituals of the mass, including helping deliver the sacramental bread during the communion rite. For the non-catholic in the audience, this is a rite where people receive a very thin piece of consecrated bread that is supposed to represent the body of Jesus, and they eat it while they pray. People form a line and a person, either the priest or his helpers, puts the bread in their mouth. Well, one of these students made the slightest of movements to mess with a friend who was in line. Imagine doing the motion to give him the bread and then moving it back. A dumb joke, sure. Inappropriate even, if you want. But what happened next was the priest exploded. “SACRILEGY, SACRILEGY, SACRILEGY”. We were all shocked, and he began screaming how in all of his years as a priest he had never seen anything more sacrilegious (keep in mind he did say he was an exorcist so I guess the demons he expelled were pretty chill), and he did not stop screaming for several minutes. We decided to take the children out of the church and send them to their classrooms while the guy was still screaming, and I got tired of the guy so I went to talk to the school admin to see if we could get rid of him. Thankfully when I got there he was screaming at the head coordinator about how this school was filled with evil. I told him “Hey, I’m sorry, don’t you think if what this student was so wrong your reaction as a representative of god in a school should be to patiently explain to him why it was wrong?”, he turns towards me, says “Thank you for your opinion”, then turns towards the admin again and screams “I WILL NEVER COME BACK TO THIS SCHOOL”. We never saw him again.
That I was condemning my children to everlasting death if I left the church.
“I find the term homophobic offensive. I’m not scared of gay people, I just don’t think they should be gay.”
Besides any generic homophobic thing shouted in general during pride, and said to me personally –
When I was 11, one of my mother’s friends lived with us for a bit. And one day out of nowhere, she accused me of going through her stuff and breaking her camera (she had a cat she kept in the room and said she kept the camera on a nightstand — I assume the cat knocked it off). I was a pretty well behaved kid, had an intense fear of getting in trouble and authority at that age, so I have no idea where she got it in her head it was me. So anyway, I obviously didn’t do it, but she wouldn’t listen and insisted instead that it “just had to be” me who broke it. Finally after a few minutes, in the most faux-saccharin voice, she goes “you know, liars burn in Hell for eternity.” and walked away.
Again, I was 11 lol. And as a religious kid, it stunned me to be threatened with Hell over something I hadn’t even done.
I was told by an aunt that ESRD at 33 was Gods plan.
I didn’t do my math homework one day in third grade so my grandma screamed at me for five hours straight about how my laziness had already damned me to an eternity in hell and there was nothing I could do at that point to undo it. She then had her priest do a sermon about it the next time I went to church with her, just to make sure an eight year old knew without a doubt he’d be going to hell for not doing homework once
A lady at my mom’s church told her that my 12 year old brother’s death from cancer was punishment for an abortion she had several years prior. I can tell it hurt my mom badly by the way she recounted this story. There are some truly empty, heartless people out there.
An old woman asked me for a ride to church at a gas station. I gave her a ride, and when she asked me if I was Christian, I said no. She told me I’m going to hell. There’s no hate like Christian love.
That she wouldn’t take a religious studies course because she’d have to consider other religions as equal to Christianity. Which isn’t actually true as the purpose of studying religion isn’t to generate rankings. It was sad that she thought learning something was anti-Christian. Plus she was Catholic and Catholicism has produced many important scholars and intellectuals.
My dad, who grew up as a Traditional Catholic, told me about how he didn’t like an aunt on my mom’s side who wasn’t religious. He didn’t like her sexual licentiousness. Meanwhile he seemed to have forgotten that he lived with a woman for a few years between his first and second wives confessing that sin of living with her to a priest every week who would give him one hail mary as penance.
It’s all a part of gods plan, they might have grown up to be a pedofile,”
My marriage will never be real, and my future child will never be accepted to heaven because I myself am not Catholic, but my husband is. I’ve been Christian my whole life, started dating a Catholic, got married in a Catholic church, and when we had our child, she was baptized by a Catholic priest. She still acts like my family is going to rot in hell. But whatever.
That hell is so scary and fiery & you can’t leave and are indefinitely burning. Since you wanted to live in a world separated from God, then your cries will fall on deaf ears when you die.
It’s a scary thought if it’s real.
When my mom was going through some stuff, someone in the church said it was because I wasn’t a good enough Christian. When the youth pastor saw me a few months later and asked why I wasn’t attending Sunday service, I told him he didn’t blame me for not going.
I’ll pray for you
the virgin mary was 12, so you can date a minor
I’ll amend that. Best thing i told a born-again Christian, who I sat next to on a plane and wouldn’t shut up until I told her that only 30% of the world was Christian and that more people knew who Ronald McDonald was than Jesus Christ and she shut right up
That he’d prayed and talked to his friends at Bible study and decided that God told him that me being pregnant with his baby was my problem. By the end of that conversation he had screamed at me that if I didn’t have an abortion then me and my baby could go to hell. Yes, I terminated his parental rights.
When I worked at a vet clinic and recommended a woman spay her dog, she said she’s catholic and pro life?? Then went on about gods will and some shit. Dog died of pyometra last year I heard.
Not the worst but the most memorable and weirdest
At 15 years old I had decided to remain a virgin until I was married. I stayed faithful and loyal to the ministry and when I was around 17 I mentioned to the youth minister how I was still following this vow. She said “wow I didn’t think you could do it.” I was really hurt since know I know I am asexual so I never understood why she’d think I’d even be sexual active let alone disobey God.
Back in 2020 some religious nutcase told me that enough praying would make the covid go away.
He caught covid a month later.
That it is a shame to know that someone as nice as I am is going to hell.
Or maybe it was the guy who saw me check out a library book about Salem, Massachusetts and started leaving bibles tucked in between the doors of my duplex, with sticky notes on passages like “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”
When I was in middle school, one of the office secretaries took me aside and spent about 15 minutes preaching at me about how my reading, especially of fiction, was sinful and somehow contributed to my parents’ divorce. They divorced when I was 2.
That a local man from my hometown who had died, who was a well known pillar of the community and gave his all to support those in need, was destined for hell because he wasn’t ‘saved’
Being homosexual is actually ablest cause her brother had downs syndrome and didn’t know how they could make Jesus cry.
That “God doesn’t give you more than you can handle”. I was going through a period of severe OCD and I was questioning why God would give someone OCD. I was 16 years old at the time.
That my dad who committed suicide when I was 10 is in hell
“I’m tired of these degenerates take over my country.”
Friend of over 20 years. It saddens me to know he harbors so much hate in his heart. I had to cut him off after that, I can’t hang out with someone the rest of my friend wouldn’t feel comfortable around.
God will give me the strength to bear my broken heart.
Having a panic attack is no reason to “disrespect my mom” (clean up ice cream from a table).
When I was a student, I was walking across campus and there was a religious person. As I walked by he pointed at me and shouted “You’re going to Hell”
So I asked him if he was taking a group down right now
I was in the hospital waiting for news about my mom. A friend came to see how things were and brought a friend of theirs ( someone I never met ). The person was super religious and asked me if it was ok for them to pray for my mom. I’m not religious but positive vibes come from all over so of course I didn’t mind. After they prayed we talked a bit and they asked about my father, I told them I didn’t know him and my mother was a lesbian and had a girlfriend. They then proceeded to ask if my mom was religious and I told them yes she is and they tell me she’s going to go to hell and needs to repent and change her evil ways. Mind you I am in the hospital waiting to see if she was going to be ok or if she was dying literally and this asshole starts talking shit like this to me. My mom is Christian I’m not so even though I don’t believe in heaven and hell she does. I mean seriously you don’t say shit like that to someone you just met and especially during a time so scary. My mom was fine and pulled through and I told her about what was said and she laughed and laughed. She told me she’s a good person and she will go where she’s supposed to when she’s dies.
“Jesus doesn’t love you because you got pregnant out of wedlock.”
This woman had burnt her house down with her family inside because her husband was molesting her kids, and then her boys were doing the same to their younger sisters.
Instead of reporting it, she just burnt her house down.
That the God of the Bible was the perfect example of love
At my father’s funeral, “I’m sorry he’s going to hell since he hadn’t accepted Jesus Christ but you still have time”
Went to church with my brother one time. Pastor came out and started with this “everyone here is going to hell”. “I want you all to go to the mall or sit in public, and pretend everyone has a sign that says destined for hell”. After being told we were all pieces of shit they passed around a bucket asking for money. The kid started at me with looks that could kill since I didn’t donate anything. They seemed to be doing fine moneywise. Had stained glass, marble floors, didn’t look like money was a shortage to me. Anyways, brother and I went out to breakfast afterwards and didn’t speak a word to each other.
“You can’t be an atheist – you’re too good.”
As if ONLY PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED EXACTLY LIKE SHE DID COULD POSSIBLY BE GOOD!!!
That was the first time I dropped the F-bomb on her, telling her she was fucking crazy if she felt that way, and others in history who have said similar things have cause genocides and holocausts.
That the Lord never gives us more than we can cope with; the evening of the day I had been working with the child protection team at work, including a child who had been SA the previous night who needed examined.
I walked away because if I said anything I didn’t know whether I would start crying, scream at the person about my day +/- punch them and tell them to cope with it
my dad wouldn’t walk me down the aisle, give a speech, or dance with me at my wedding. i’m a woman and was marrying a woman. my dad and i had always been very close so this broke my heart. i’d had a father/daughter dance song picked out since i was a kid. luckily we’ve had plenty of conversations since then and we’re okay now, but the hurt still lingers.
That non-religious people deserve less rights
This was in a philosophy class; I stood up and shouted at them
“You’ve lost everything in your life (job, wife, apartment, family) because God is testing you.”
Old boy couldn’t have just put a wallet in the street for me to turn in or ignore, he had to make me literally homeless, destitute and soul crushingly lonely. Got it.
I was visiting my sister in the hospital. She was recovering from surgery for the same benign but invasive brain tumor that I had JUST been diagnosed with. (I know, bad luck.)
Two of my mom’s church friends were there. They literally backed me into a corner to explain that God was doing what HE needed to do to bring us back into the fold.
So… don’t backslide. Because God will give you a brain tumor.
When I was 14 and my post-suicide attempt depression was just “Satan inside me” and they can “pray it out”.
Jokes on them – I’m still depressed, but at least I can refer to my kids as “semen demons.”😂
People who have down syndrome will go to hell because they don’t understand sin snd can’t repent. In regards to me as a kid asking will my sister go to heaven
That it was god’s plan for my brother to die of cancer
Not the worst thing, but when you’re at a wake, in the line for someone that died for an overdose, and they say “everything happens for a reason…” So if I kill you now it was God’s will?
That they were 85% sure my mother had gone to heaven. This was at my mother’s funeral.
An old religious French man once told me that I have a little boy inside me, and that he will go away if I just embrace my inner femininity????
I was told that being raped was my fault/God’s punishment for bot being an obedient daughter and good Catholic. I was then later told it was the Lord’s blessing in disguise because when I had gone to the doctor’s afterwards they found a very localized amount of cervical cancer at a ridiculously early stage and were able to get most of it with a biopsy, then were able to cut out the remaining amount with only one more procedure, and later confirmed over 4 more years of testing and checkups that they had gotten it all and it didn’t come back.
I was later asked if all of that had renewed my faith because how could I not believe in god after all of that. To this day I don’t know how I managed to not punch the ever loving shit out of them.
I had a debate with an acquaintance who is a Christian about 3 or 4 years ago now. I was pointing out things that I don’t like Christianity. His response was that “God is not a tyrant and that it’s hard to explain”. He never bothered to explain things the next time we met up and sounds like he’s making up excuses to justify his beliefs. What really upset me was him saying that “life is fair” and didn’t seem like he care about what other people have to struggle in their lives.
“Do you want to go to Hell?”
That my purpose for being was to make babies and serve my husband.
On Easter of all days, I was told I was going to burn in Hell for all eternity because I did not claim Jesus Christ in my heart as the one true savior…🙄
That having sex with a 9 year old doesn’t make the prophet muhammad a bad person
Honestly, I don’t have a real problem with religious people. But my friend once invited me to his youth group, and the guest that night was apparently the “Christian Cop” in our town(?), and he said “I wish I could pull over and arrest everyone I see with a Darwin fish on their car” and everyone clapped. I was just about to stand up, because I actually HAD a Darwin fish on my car, in the parking lot, and my friend pulled me down with a “dude, not now” energy, so I just sat back and daydreamed for the rest of the whatever. It was just so shocking to me at the time to see a law enforcement person say they wish they could enforce their beliefs BY LAW, and have a room full of people agree with him.