The reason why this phrase pisses me off so much is because I know they don’t mean it. To me it means “fuck you” or “burn in hell”. It’s just a Christian back handed insult to me.
Why? Because when I was a teen in the 2000’s, there were Christians that I was friends with that would brag about telling their enemies they would “pray for them” as a tongue in cheek troll just to annoy them. They’d laugh about it and say they were going to burn in hell.
My former best friend, who was Christian, would go around in a silly voice saying “Jesus Loves You” to people who were in the goth group in high school.
The phrase just reminds me of the immature bullshit he did. Anytime someone says “I’ll pray for you”, I get a flashback of him doing that around high school and it aggravates me. Anytime someone says “Jesus loves you”, again flashback.
My brother even made a braggy post on Facebook about it years ago. To which I quietly flip the bird in his general direction.
I like goth fashion. I dressed up like them when I was a teen, and I still sometimes wear all black with white makeup when I go to work if I’m bored. When someone says “Jesus loves you” to me, I think of it as Jesus having a better fashion sense and music taste than 91.5% of the world population.
And guess what? Crucifixes and cathedrals are the best parts of goth fashion.
Goodness, even a fictional character appreciates true beauty better than actual people.
I used to hang out with the goth group. Few of them were Christian. Mostly made up of witches, pagans, and at least one Satanist. When I said Lucifer wasn’t real, one of them said “Don’t insult my god” lol
I was never advanced about projecting my goth side. I just wore black t-shirts. I never painted my face, wore Slip Knot or Korn shirts, or had chains hanging on baggy black pants. I grew up in a strict Chistian home, so I didn’t have the opportunity of going with that fashion.
I wore a black sabbath shirt with some alabaster makeup to school once; it was funny when I made my parents panic deep inside. Luckily, schools aren’t as overreacting as in the movies, so they just let me “look like satan” for a day and gave me a warning. It wasn’t even that satanic.
A similar “Jesus Loves You” situation I experienced was someone telling me that:
No matter how good you think you live your life, you will always fail in the eyes of the Lord. One day, you will die thinking that good works are enough but angels will pick you up and throw you into the byways of hell.
That was a pretty eloquent text from a former friend when I told him Jesus is insignificant.
Was sitting here reading this thread, and a great thought just sprang into my head. Whenever somebody tells you, “Jesus loves you,” here’s what I think would be a good response. “Well, if what you say is true, then what’s YOUR excuse?” Like I said, it just popped into my head, as such skewed thoughts are often prone to do. Feel free to use it if you ever get a chance.
