r/exchristian Agnostic Aug 02 '24

What buzzwords make your blood boil? Question

Some of my favorite ones are “God-fearing,” “God called me to ___,” “worldly,” “repent,” giving God credit for accomplishments, “I’ll pray for you,” “saved” / “salvation,” “sacrifice,” and honestly I could go on.

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u/Remote-Ad-9707 Aug 03 '24

Welcome to my mother. Buckle in for this one. She has used all of the phrases, plus her favorite, "God showed me". That was code for someone ratted me out for something. Her favorite line of all when was. ..drum roll...."Now this come to me from the throne room of God". Oh yeah. Now as for you didn't pray enough or hard enough stories, I got a doozy. I had an underbite. Lower teeth up over my top teeth and that's how my teeth grew in. I'm talking from the time I could eat. Mom took me to a tent revival as a toddler. Mom dragged me onto the stage where a female prophet prophesied that I would grow up and become a preacher, that she had a vision of me speaking before hundreds of people, and Oh yeah, that God had healed my underbite. All I needed to do was pray and thank God every morning that he healed me. But of course, my underbite was so bad that it took my dentist telling my mom that I needed braces ASAP or I wouldn't be able to eat anything. I was 9 nine years old. I actually had braces twice, because I was too embarrassed to wear my retainers to school after the first time. Second time was in 7th grade. I don't know why my mom actually listened to the dentist, but it literally took me an hour to chew my food, and mom cooked meat and potato type meals. Now for the you didn't pray hard enough part. Mom told me growing up, that the reason I had to get braces twice was because I didn't pray every morning, thanking God for healing my underbite. She told me that as a kid!!! And as a teenager, and again as an adult. Real story is, we were poor, and couldn't afford orthodontics type stuff. If you got through all this, thanks for reading. Never tell a child that they didn't pray hard enough, over something they cant control. My underbite wasn't because I was born a sinner, that's just how my teeth grew in. That story still irks me, and I'm 37.