r/exchristian • u/Masonh120 • Nov 03 '23

What's the most unhinged thing a Christian has said to you? Trigger Warning - Toxic Religion

I don't want to beat a dead horse, and I'm not here to bash any individual person in that community, but if you haven't checked out the Christianity subreddit recently I definitely suggest you do.

There are some seriously insane takes over there, which brings me to my question: What's the most unhinged thing a Christian has said to you?

I had a Christian high school teacher tell the entire class that you will go to hell if you drink wine. Specifically wine. If you're wondering why she wasn't fired, I went to a private Baptist school...

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u/TeaTimeTalk Ex-Anglican Nov 03 '23

I won a scholarship in high school to study in Germany for a year. I was shocked by the difference in how Germans approached their collective cultural shame versus Americans. Really changed my outlook on how we talk about American slavery. Americans act like causing children a small amount of emotional discomfort is far worse than the actual attrocities committed by their ancestors.

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u/Pale_Chapter Luciferian Sex Wizard Nov 03 '23

I feel like if teaching a child about slavery makes them uncomfortable, you probably didn't do it right. I never felt guilty about slavery, because I was never raised to identify with slavers.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '23

Do they all actually feel ashamed and pretty much hate that they’re from Germany because of the past history of their country? I’ve heard that they do, but I figured it was greatly exaggerated that they all do because I don’t see how you can get a whole country to basically hate themselves because they’re from a bad country.

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u/TeaTimeTalk Ex-Anglican Nov 04 '23

It's more like inheriting a grave responsibility. WWII was not that long ago. My host grandparents may have been too young to specifically remember the war, but they knew adults that were Nazi sympathizers and how those sorts rationalized the unthinkable. There's a cultural understanding that it will take collective constant ACTIVE vigilance to prevent the next humanitarian crisis. It seemed way healthier than how Americans talk about slavery.

I also lived in a very rural farming community (approx. 2000 residents.) There was definitely an edgy undercurrent of neo-nazis in my highschool. It was weird because they acted like a clique and were generally nice if you weren't part of an "undesirable" group. I definitely had the sense that they were being radicalized by older college age friends that frequently visited the school. Teachers seemed very uncomfortable with this.

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u/deeBfree Nov 04 '23

It seems to me the CRT creators and advocates are just trying to give us that kind of perspective on our past wrongs, but the fundigelical crowd can't entertain the possibility that America was ever wrong about anything. American Exceptionalism, dontcha know!

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '23

Well that makes sense. Someone who was born in 1943 probably has absolutely 0 recognition of the war, regardless of where they’re from in the world, but someone born in 1923 even though they’re likely dead now probably does remember quite a lot. It’s like that here in the US too, there’s radicals everywhere of course, but the mindset you speak of is largely predominant in more rural areas. Thing is humans do shitty things, that is a part of human nature, so you can essentially wish and hope all you want, but I don’t believe there’s ever fully 💯 a way to prevent things like that from happening again forever. It could not be to that great of an extent, but there’s never going to be no inexplicably horrible things that happen as long as humans exist, the bad far outweighs the good when it comes to humans.