While religion is very prevalent in our society, not everyone is a fan of it. For some, it’s just simply not a thing they’re interested in, or something that doesn’t fit into their lives. For others, it’s something that was once their life that they had to turn away from, since it wasn’t a pleasant experience, to say the least.
Today, we’ve collected a list of rather diabolical things that people who grew up in church heard being said to them. And let’s just say, many of these are pretty traumatizing, so it’s no wonder why some folks decide to leave religion behind after experiences like this.
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#1
I’m still traumatized.
My youth pastor drank a live goldfish in a game of truth or dare, and when I began CRYING because I was a teen girl who had just seen a live animal go to its death, a church lady pull me aside and lectured me that I was ruining everyone’s fun evening.
That was the first moment I looked around and realized that church might not be for me.
IRONIC that Christians love to tell stories of Satanists sacrificing animals though.
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#2
Believing my pets had souls was demonic.
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#3
One “religious” thing I was told is that the reason a couple died in a hot air balloon accident leaving their five kids parentless is bc they were wearing shorts and weren’t dressed in a Godly way.
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#4
That if a man cheats on or divorces his wife, it is always the woman’s fault.
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#5
they told me my cousins are mixed-race because they stayed in the sun too long. like no, their father is black.
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#6
As a teenager I opened up about my anxiety disorder and was asking for help from (at the time) people I trusted and had grown up with. I was told that I had it because I didn’t believe in God enough.I don’t think I ever went back there after that.
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#7
Being self conscious and insecure about my appearance was actually pride because I thought I knew better than god about how I was made and I needed to constantly ask forgiveness
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#8
I was told I’d go to hell at the ripe age of eight because I was sad my mother had died. And I wasn’t happy because “God always has a reason and it’s his will”. My mom died when I was four and in front of the whole church the pastor had told me I’d go to hell- Because I was crying as he had targeted me in the church crowd knowing about my mother. As the church was in a tight community…
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#9
That I would go to hell if I died prematurely. (Whatever that means 🤷🏼♀️)
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#10
So I didn’t really grow up in church, but as an adult a friend took me to her church (a now infamous church)
Where I sat through a sermon about how women need to be subservient to men and our hands are smaller so they fit in men’s hands.
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#11
The last time I went to church, my senior year of hs, the pastor basically told our youth group it was [promiscuous] to go look for a boyfriend. Just sit tight, god would deliver a man to us and we’d just know that’s who we’re supposed to marry.
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#12
I remember crying at a Christian camp because they dared us to eat a worm and I was horrified. And everyone probably thought I was pathetic. But what are we even doing!
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#13
that everything in revelation was literal. the ocean and moon WOULD turn to blood, everyone who believed in jesus WOULD disappear suddenly one day, and if i had “fallen short without repentance even once” i wouldn’t make the cut and i’d be here alone (presuming my family was raptured) to suffer trial and tribulations with the rest of the sinners.
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#14
That my anxiety would go away if I just stopped thinking about myself so much.
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#15
if i didn’t have a sin to confess they would give me one
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#16
At 12 years old (Mormon) we were asked to make a list of the qualities we want in a husband. Then they turned it around on us and said now we as young women need to be perfect so we are worthy of these qualities in our imaginary husbands.
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#17
“I know the doctors will tell you you need 6 weeks to heal, but your husband can’t wait that long. Make sure he’s taken care of and doesn’t resent the baby once she comes.”
I was 38 weeks pregnant.
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#18
Marriage advice from youth group: “women- don’t wear sweatshirts and lots of clothes to bed if you’re cold. Let your husband warm you up.”
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#19
Not growing up, but…..in premarital counseling, the pastor told us that my husband wouldn’t never be a good father bc his parents were divorced and his dad wasn’t the best or around much after that. (Mind you, his dad had frontal lobe damage that makes him difficult and/or unsafe to be around.) My husband is an amazing dad.
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#20
That god would sacrifice literal beauty if you were too arrogant about said beauty.
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