When this is all over, I think there will be one demographic that will suffer far worse than others

[Aquaria]

56. Really?

Because the Southern Baptists where I'm from were vicious snakes in the grass.

They hated brown people, and didn't hide it.

They hated every other religious group out there. The weirdest of all was that they hated rival congregations of Southern Baptists almost as much as they (openly) hated Jews and Catholics.

They went out of their way to tell people of other faiths that they were going to hell, and they used the threat of the Devil "coming to get you" towards children for any infractions. Even children who weren't their own.

They hated women, especially those who worked outside the home. Searing, visceral hatred. No one was crueler or more vindictive than the females of the Southern Baptist vipers. They were the ones who would pull their children away from my brothers and me, and tell their children LOUDLY not to play with "that harlot's" children. My mother's only "crime" was being divorced. That's all it took for those fucking hags to treat her and us that way.

They worked overtime to keep alcohol sales out of our county, because they didn't "believe" in drinking alcohol--so we all had to do without if they did. And they didn't care that their delusion was costing people their lives--that thousands were dead because they couldn't stand someone enjoying life, even a little. Because everyone in the county who wanted to drink had to drive a very long way to get alcohol, they would often pop open whatever they bought and drink it right in the parking lots of the liquor stores JUST over the county line (I'm talking one inch over). Then they would hit the road. And then kill somebody. My cousin was killed by a drunk driver. The girl I babysat when she was little was killed by a drunk driver. My boyfriend when I was 15 was killed by a drunk driver, as was his dad and a sister. And never mind how in one horrific 20 month stretch when I was 18/19 y/o, I lost over 14 friends and acquaintances to drunk drivers coming back from neighboring counties that did sell alcohol. I went to so many funerals from the time of my cousin's death until the last one I could bear, that of one of my dearest childhood friends, that I haven't been able to go to funerals since. I can't bear them anymore. I am forever scarred by the memories of the ones I attended then--thanks to Southern Baptists.

So no, they were never good and decent people. They were always monsters, and still are.