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alphafemale

(18,497 posts) Thu Mar 1, 2012, 08:16 PM Mar 2012

"It's better that they DO Starve to Death when they are children." [View all]

"That way they will not ever practice their heathen religion and they can go straight to the arms of Jesus."

One of the many bat-shit crazy people in the church I grew up in said.

I was trying to collect funds for starving children in Africa.

It was one of my first wattafuk moments. Realizing they didn't see those Bible tales of massive floods and towers of gobblelygok as fictional reality tales along the lines of Aesop or Paul Bunyan...? They thought this shit went down as written.

I knew from the age of 6 or so I would need to fake to survive.

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"It's better that they DO Starve to Death when they are children." [View all] alphafemale Mar 2012 OP

Love how they justify their own sins onlyadream Mar 2012 #1

Or believing that suffering is good for the soul? alphafemale Mar 2012 #5

I wish people would be more honest about why LuvNewcastle Mar 2012 #2

That is pretty much what people say these days. alphafemale Mar 2012 #6

Are you seriously saying, that at age 6, Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #3

As opposed to what? alphafemale Mar 2012 #4

Point taken. nt Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #7

Absolutely, bat-shit crazy! hamsterjill Mar 2012 #8