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  Being gay didn't even make the top ten list of things in the Bible not to do. Adultery did, so did lying.
  Being gay is right down there with not eating shellfish and not trimming your beard. She probably sprayed them and then went to Red Lobster for some abomination food.
context: Did she think they were cats on the counter or something >
  
  Maybe she thought they would burst into flames or melt or something. >
  
  Wouldn't surprise me. When I told my mom I'm an atheist she was worried it would be painful to go into the church. >
  
  Does she realize that's basically admitting that her version of God is holding her hostage? >
  
  She, eventually, came to her own peace with it. Took like 10 years but eventually she just told me "you're a better person than most of the people I go to church with, so I know god won't punish you for doubting". We got along great for about 10 years after that and then she drowned in Florida. >
  
  
  "you're a better person than most of the people I go to church with,
  
  I wish more church folk figured this out.  Because it's true, frequently.  Like all the damn time.  It's almost as if all these people that cling to church as a declaration that they're good people, really aren't the good people they claim to be.
  No insult to your mom of course.  I know church going folk that are good people.  But they're in the minority. >
  
  Yeah, growing up and seeing how big of a difference there was between her and the people all around us that just used church as a shield for their shitty behavior was a big part of what got me to realize it's all bullshit. >
  
  Evangelical churches basically prey (pun?) on prison populations and drug-addicts to boost numbers. They talk a big game about helping people, but it turns out all they care about is the numbers—“saving your soul” doesn’t mean “actually helping you become a morally better person now”, it just means you repeat a bunch of rituals and superstitious nonsense and then get to claim superiority over those who don’t do that, regardless of what else you do.
  It’s gross. >
  
  It’s disturbingly reminiscent of a virus…