u/Tryxyka

Hi, all. I have something I wanna get off my chest as it is just annoying the crap outta me. So, I live with fundamentalist Evangelical Christian mom; she's a Black Evangelical tho, so you can imagine what she is like: constantly talking about Jesus/God, how she gets dreams from God all the time that are supposedly warnings (even though she selectively applies them to future events after those events happen), prays and worships all the time, etc. She also has been falling for conspiracy theories like how NASA fakes space missions because "God never intended for us to go to space, it's too far away". Bruhhhhhhh. Anyway, onto the main thing I wanna rant about is how she thinks her religious interpretation allows her to assume and assert things about other religions, non-religious/irreligious people, and even other cultures. An example of this is how anytime Buddhism ever comes up (rarely does tho), she always says that it only makes sense that Buddhists worship Buddha, as if it's up to her to decide how Buddhists practice their own religion! The buddha never even claimed to be a god, yet this man gets shit from arrogant Christians like my mom, omg. Anyway, get a load of this (what I really wanna mention): we were watching Molly of Denali on PBS Kids and there was a scene in an episode where a guy was telling a folktale about how a muskrat helped a lonesome traveler who was trapped in the middle of the ocean by going underwater to bring him enough mud so that he could use magic to turn it into a chain of islands. Upon seeing this, my mom jumps to the conclusion that this is witchcraft which they passed down to their descendants through these demonic stories. I was immediately disgusted by this thinking. She doesn't know a damn thing about Alaskan culture or history but assumes that this magic was witchcraft?? Why, just because they weren't Christian?? I am truly disgusted by this thinking. Even if it was witchcraft, I can't help but think that it's her god's fault for that because if he was real, he let so many cultures throughout decades and centuries across time develop cultural practices that he hates so freaking much? How does that make any sense? She acts as if all these cultures apparently knew Christianity was a thing before Christianity as a religion even existed but just refused to adopt it because of sin! The amount of ignorance & arrogance you have to have to make claims like this is so beyond me, y'all 😩