Yes, I said it — Evangelical Christians are worse than spoiled rich kids. And here’s why.
When I was 13, I was forced to attend an Evangelical church. The other teens there — ages 13 to 16 — were unbearable. They were self-righteous, hypocritical, and honestly, just plain ignorant. They acted like they were morally superior while being some of the most judgmental, nosy, and close-minded people I’d ever met.
They were openly homophobic, transphobic, and rabidly “pro-life.” Yet somehow, they loved to rant about wealth inequality, racism, and classism. Now, those are real issues — but coming from them, it was infuriating. If they actually cared about equality and justice, I could respect that. But they didn’t. They despised anyone who wasn’t Christian. One kid even said, “Gay people deserve to be attacked.”
And these same kids wanted to speak out against oppression? That’s like a neo-Nazi preaching about peace and tolerance. The hypocrisy was nauseating.
This is exactly what I can’t stand about so many Evangelical Christians — that self-righteous double standard. In my church, they constantly condemned wealthy people for being greedy or “out of touch.” I’m not defending the rich, but let’s be real — when bigots start preaching about moral purity and justice, it’s hard to take seriously.
If you’re hateful toward entire groups of people, yet feel entitled to lecture others about fairness, I can’t help but look at you sideways. Those church kids loved calling out “sin” when it suited them, but when the tables turned — when they faced judgment or exclusion — they suddenly wanted sympathy. Nah. You don’t get to cry “injustice” when you dish it out every Sunday.
At least spoiled rich kids know who they are. They’re snobby, elitist, and classist — and they don’t pretend otherwise but they live in their own insulated upper class elite bubble and, for the most part, leave everyone else alone.
Evangelicals? They can’t do that. They can’t keep to themselves. They feel the constant need to shove their beliefs down everyone’s throat. If a billionaire’s kid walked into that church and went on a classist rant, those same teens would be outraged — demanding repentance and tears — while still holding their own hateful, bigoted views.
Sorry, but I don’t feel sympathy for hypocrites.
I hear ya.
They’re a product of the machine that raised them.
They all constantly get told to expect the unexpected because one of these days jebus comes back, or one of them is going to be “the leader of a new generation” (vom). And not a damn thing happens aside from a kid getting cured from a headache after 2 hours of hysterical prayer and a painkiller…
Some of them get abused in various forms, most of them are truly holding onto their god thing because the leadership sure ain’t stepping up aside from more catchphrases and “encounter weekends” (or whatever the fuck they come up to waste time). Life is under unbearable tension with a monster of a sky daddy god looking over your shoulder making sure you’re only using it to pee. And keep fighting of all the thoughts 24/7. Especially the empathetic ones.
Deny yourself, and after that deny yourself even harder. I dare you, I double dare you! (And don’t ask questions, it’s a weird complex book you should know but heart but don’t expect to understand any of it’s
hatredlove.All that bottled up hatred has to go somewhere. And it spills out onto the one group they can aim at (because praying against imaginary demons gets old fast)=> all the OTHER people.
And then they act surprised that they don’t fit in with the rest of society.
I know it’s meagre consolidation but let’s be glad you got out of there.