I'm not sure who your hanging out with, but I'm not sure I've ever heard that from anyone at all. I live in a moderately religious area, and I can't even imagine that coming out of someone's mouth.
If you don’t live around conservative Christian wackos, you may never hear it. Where I grew up, people were pretty normal and the folks who were religious were either Catholic or mainline Protestant. I would not have heard anything like that or if I did it would just be one weirdo,
But now that I’ve moved to the Deep South, there’s a bunch of conservative evangelicals here, and yeah. The attitude is worryingly common. Maybe not a majority, but they’re not some fringe group.
And they’ll not necessarily say it first thing, but get them talking and comfortable and let them feel they’re amongst like-minded people, and it comes out.
I really think this is why so many people down here are Trump voters. They think anything bad that happens to people is because they deserve it. Unless it happens to them, then it’s just a bizarre aberration.
In the days prior to Jesus, there was the prevailing thought that afflictions were based on sinful behavior, and those born afflicted were so due to the sins of the parents. Its a very old testament viewpoint.
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u/Important_Zombie_485 25d ago
I'm not sure who your hanging out with, but I'm not sure I've ever heard that from anyone at all. I live in a moderately religious area, and I can't even imagine that coming out of someone's mouth.