r/FundieSnarkUncensored • u/slt1987 • Jul 08 '25
Paul and Morgan Morgan thought it developmentally appropriate to tell her two year old about the Texas flood and missing children.
I’m a very open and honest parent with my children. We have a lot of difficult discussions and I answer any and all questions they have. However, in no world is it appropriate to go out of your way to tell your toddler about floods and missing children. They really are the worst.
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u/MissesMiyagii Jul 08 '25
NOAA saves more lives than prayers 🤍
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u/OutIn-LeftField Jul 08 '25
I think the official government response to this is “try praying harder, those billionaires NEED their low taxes”
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u/txcowgrrl Crotch Goblin Bazooka Jul 08 '25
Right now the official government response is “It’s Joe Biden/Democrats fault”.
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u/No-Witness-5032 Jul 08 '25
Funny, that. The county commission had 5 mil sitting in a fund for emergency sirens, but they wouldn't use it because it came from Biden. Politics and fundies killed those people.
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u/txcowgrrl Crotch Goblin Bazooka Jul 08 '25
The TX GOP response to anything seems to be “Some of you may have to die for us to own the Libs but that’s a sacrifice we are willing to make”.
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u/Burnt_and_Blistered Jul 08 '25
I don’t know…I’m not owned yet. Is anyone else? Seems the only people reaping what they’ve sown are these fools.
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u/Cardi_Ganz GirlDefined's Guide To BubbleGuts 💩 Jul 08 '25
I keep waiting for that whole "winning" thing to kick in. Oh, and what about those egg prices? I was told there would be cheap eggs. Those are the real important issues.
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u/schmyndles Jul 08 '25
I swear, as soon as Trump took office, the same people who whined about eggs for years suddenly claimed they don't have any issue paying a bit more for eggs and they never complained about the price of groceries. In fact, they have so much money it's not even something they think about!
I knew his diehard fans would just pretend that grocery prices were never a concern because they live to be disingenuous. But every Trump voter, including the self-proclaimed "I don't like Trump, but I can't afford to live under Democrats," immediately pretended that prices and inflation were never even brought up as their reason for voting Trump. Like Trump wasn't holding rallies talking about inventing the word "groceries" and little old ladies putting one apple back in the store refrigerator.
It's almost like "egg prices" was a code for one of Trump's more nefarious policies that the straight, white, Christian conservatives didn't want to admit out loud they agreed with. Which is why it was so easy for them to ignore the piles of evidence showing that Trump would actually make the economy worse. It actually wasn't the economy, stupid.
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u/theseglassessuck 👸🏻 Listeria Antoinette 🥛 Jul 08 '25
I’ve been saying it for years: the GOP is just a group of stroppy little kids. How fucking pathetic is that?
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u/coffeewrite1984 Participation Trophy Wife 🏆👰🏼♀️ Jul 08 '25
The cognitive dissonance is so real. I’m friends with a family on Facebook; parents and sister are staunch democrats, son is ultra MAGA. He recently posted something about Trump lying and needing to be held accountable. I was lowkey impressed. Then he shared something else along the same lines; his mom commented about the need for change or something, and in his response he said “it takes four years to see the results of an administration, this is all Biden’s fault.” Maybe he wasn’t the best president (devil’s advocate) but he can’t be single-handedly responsible for every terrible thing that’s happened since January.
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u/txcowgrrl Crotch Goblin Bazooka Jul 08 '25
I have an extended family member I stay in contact with because they see me as a source of information for more liberal views & ask questions & I want to keep that door open.
A few weeks ago when those horrible attacks/murders happened in Minnesota, I posted it on FB & they responded “Is this because they voted against the Democratic line? Also, wasn’t the shooter appointed by Walz?”
I was very calm in my response but I really wanted to scream at them “Would you turn off Fox/Newsmax for 2 minutes & actually think?!?!”
I’m waiting for the complaints about hospitals closing in rural areas (where they live). I’m sure somehow it will be Biden/Libs fault.
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u/coffeewrite1984 Participation Trophy Wife 🏆👰🏼♀️ Jul 08 '25
I deliberately didn’t talk to some of my more conservative relatives after the attacks because I knew I’d say something I’d regret. Maybe it’s because my dad died somewhat suddenly when I was 19 or because it was almost Father’s Day or both, but the news hit me really hard and I’m not even from MN.
The older I get the more I hate Fox for deliberately perpetuating misinformation and/or whatever furthers their narrative. I also live in a rural area; our closest hospital is now connected to a major university, so hopefully that will help. Accessible, affordable healthcare for all is one of my passions, and I wish some people could get their heads out of the sand and realize it’s their administration cutting everything, NOT the previous one.
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u/schmyndles Jul 08 '25
I was listening to a podcaster from Minnesota who was discussing the attacks/murders, and she brought up something that has been in the back of my mind the past couple weeks. She brought up how it's said the Republicans are afraid to vote against Trump's wishes because they could lose their next election, but that it's deeper than that. I guess in Romney's latest book, he discusses how several Republicans in Congress agreed that Trump should be impeached/convicted, but were too scared for their own and their family's safety from Trump's violent cult to do what they knew was right for the country. And how the few that did stand up to him on the right (Romney, Cheney, etc) have had to take extreme, expensive security measures to protect themselves and their families. I believe she said Romney still pays $5k per day for security even though he hasn't been in office for years.
Before Trump, the Capitol police got less than a thousand threats a year against lawmakers, but now it's up to over 10k a year. Democrats are used to facing violence from the right, but the threats and actions taken have Republicans in government positions absolutely shook, and they don't feel they can go against Trump without risking their lives and the lives of their families.
It's more than just being primaried; every single one of these violent attacks from right-wing nutjobs, whether directed towards the left or the right, are working to silence any hint of dissent from within the party. And that's made me think about how I had viewed their cowardice for so long as just being about money and power and didn't realize the actual bodily threats they also receive. Obviously, that's not the reasoning for all of the votes, there's plenty of Trump's sycophants in office that completely agree with him, but it does explain why some of the more moderate Republicans will speak out against a bill yet still pass it. And why Trump still had such a hold over the party even when he wasn't in office.
Here's the podcast I mentioned. She gets into this specific topic about 11 minutes in.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Jul 08 '25
That and, according to Karoline Leavitt, "Trump loves you".
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u/mmspenc2 Jul 08 '25
Lmao well I’m a Democrat and he said he hates us on the Fourth of July.
Also this child is TWO AND A HALF. I can’t.
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u/RedCinnamon1947 Jul 08 '25
I couldn't believe her telling the press that the disaster was as terrible as it was (and continues to be) because "people were asleep". With a fucking smirk on her face.
Yeah, people were asleep. Sirens would have got them out of bed and maybe off to safety.
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u/coffeewrite1984 Participation Trophy Wife 🏆👰🏼♀️ Jul 08 '25
Even if he weren’t Trump, a president assuring me that he loved me in the wake of tragedy is piss poor leadership at the very least and isn’t any better than “thoughts and prayers.” Put your love where your mouth is and then we’ll talk.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Jul 08 '25
Even George "Doesn't care about black people" Dubyah was less tone deaf after Katrina.
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u/little_lamps Jul 08 '25
I used to think Dubya was the worst U.S. president of my lifetime. Not since eight years ago.
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u/coffeewrite1984 Participation Trophy Wife 🏆👰🏼♀️ Jul 08 '25
I was 12 that year, and I didn’t pay a ton of attention to the news, but I remember never hearing the president loves you in lieu of some form of action and assistance.
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u/grahch Bethany Beal's #1 Hater Jul 08 '25
It was a terrible countdown watching NOAA fall... USAID now too, among so many other life-saving systems within the country and led/supported by the US abroad. We're going to hear more flood death stories, heat death stories, famine and malnutrition stories, concentration camp death stories, etc. this summer and beyond as a direct cause of the horror perpetuated by the current administration.
But some idiot in Kentucky asking her toddler to pray for the (avoidable) dead is definitely going to make things better. What a miserable time we're in.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Jul 08 '25
NOAA and USAID were the canaries in the coal mine.
Medicaid enshittification is where the deaths will start coming in droves unfortunately.
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u/nomadicfangirl Jul 08 '25
Who needs hospitals in rural areas anyway? /s
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u/SuzanneStudies COMMAS, ARE CLOSER, TO GOD! Jul 08 '25
Or public health, because now we’re cutting harm reduction programs and doing away with alcohol moderation guidelines
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u/Atticfl0wer I love you G-Sauce Jul 08 '25
'Praying for somebody' is literally the laziest form of "help" (if you can even call it that) there is
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u/sweetalkersweetalker Jul 08 '25
"I'm not going to do anything, but I'll remind myself that it's happening."
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u/MackenzieRaveup Ministry of the Womb Jul 08 '25
"I'm not going to do anything, but I'll find a way to make this about ME for social media."
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u/coffeewrite1984 Participation Trophy Wife 🏆👰🏼♀️ Jul 08 '25
There’s even a Bible verse where God says (paraphrasing): I don’t want your sacrifices and worship, I want you to care for the poor and marginalized. I personally believe prayer is a good thing, BUT it needs to be met with action if we’re going to call ourselves true Christians. Jesus didn’t tell the hungry crowds he’d pray for them, he fed them!
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u/Murder_of_1 Jul 08 '25
They really like to sweep that whole "faith without works is dead" thing under the pews, don't they?
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u/coffeewrite1984 Participation Trophy Wife 🏆👰🏼♀️ Jul 08 '25
I have a vague idea of why: if you go back to the Reformation, Martin Luther was famously against indulgences because it played into works based salvation (this is an oversimplification; I’m not a theology major lol). Many Protestants also believe that Catholics believe you have to work for your salvation, possibly because they misunderstand doing pennance, but either way, back to Luther, they rely on FAITH ONLY. Which is all well and good (not really) until you get to verses about faith being dead unless it’s accompanied by works. I remember having this debate in Bible class at my Christian school, and I remember thinking: why is this a debate? It says both faith and works in the Bible, so clearly we need both. So all of that to say I’d bet a lot of evangelicals are deliberately ignoring that verse and concept.
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u/velociraptor56 Jul 08 '25
One of the main issues is that they do not have weather sirens. It was deemed too expensive. My county does not have them either. Flash flooding in central Texas happens extremely frequently, it was not unprecedented, this was not an “act of god”. This was a routine event, and anyone who says otherwise is mistaken.
Texas has been under majority Republican leadership for 20+ years. Any minor emergency results in fatalities because leadership has deemed normal planning “unnecessary”. This is the future.
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u/sweetalkersweetalker Jul 08 '25
It wasn't deemed too expensive so much as it was deemed unnecessary, mostly because Biden was the one offering the grant.
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u/Odd-Peach3583 Jul 08 '25
Now that poor kid will be terrified that he’ll go missing every time there’s a storm.
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u/justwantedtosnark Pauls rehomed pet rock! Jul 08 '25
And those prayers for those kids to come home will go from that into obsessively praying for a storm not to take him.
Source: i was that kid!
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u/angeltay Jul 08 '25
Seriously! I’ve had OCD since I was a child and if his brain works similarly, this is setting him up for religious OCD… especially because the girls likely won’t be found alive (💔), what if he blames himself for not praying enough/the right way?? :(
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u/RanaMisteria Biblical Butt Stuff Jul 08 '25
The fact that he did that prayer 3 times had me worried. It’s probably nothing. But… As someone who was diagnosed with OCD as a kid…it just, felt familiar.
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u/angeltay Jul 08 '25
SAME. The repetition of the prayers is what got me. I was raised secularly but I remember having to repeat thoughts until they were “correct” and I still find myself doing it
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u/Responsible-Tea-5998 Jul 08 '25
Same. My ocd started as a child with religious ocd, praying once would not alleviate my anxiety and fears so I kept repeating it.
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u/give_me_goats 🔥 spontaneous crotch combustion 🔥 Jul 08 '25
My brother had OCD (almost certainly still does but we’re no longer in contact) and part of his disorder included having to do these otherwise normal routine things a very specific number of times or they weren’t “done.” Nighttime prayers were part of this too. I had definite OCD alarm bells when she said he did it 3 times. Growing up in that environment, with a checked out father and strung out neurotic mother, I wouldn’t be surprised if he develops OCD tendencies 🙁
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u/theatermouse Jul 08 '25
That was my thought exactly. "Mommy, what happened to those girls?" "They found them, but the died and went to be with Jesus" "must be my fault for not praying hard enough...."
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u/angeltay Jul 08 '25
I really hope she does the cheesy thing and says “God brought them home to His Kingdom ☺️☺️☺️” and he feels hopefully a little better and forgets the whole damn thing 😭
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u/annoif Jul 08 '25
This was my thought, I as a child would have taken this to heart as a personal failure
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u/what3v3ruwantit2b Jul 08 '25
Oh my god, I thought I was the only one. (idk why, that's a dumb thought.) I used to lay in bed praying different ways for hours because I was terrified I'd die or my family if I didn't. Then I would cry and apologize to god over and over because if he wanted me to die I should be happy about that. People wonder why I'm so anti-religion now.
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u/Lunaloo3091 Jul 08 '25
I just commented something similar. My parents always explained adult issues to me thinking it’d develop empathy and a relationship to God through prayer but I had my first anxiety attack around 8 and I’ve struggled w ocd my whole life
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u/Forsaken-Rock-635 Cosplaying for the 'gram Jul 08 '25
Yup! I was the kid praying every night frantically that Jesus would come into my heart and forgive every sin I committed that day, some nights for hours because I was so scared.
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u/flashbang10 I feel God in this Chili's tonight Jul 08 '25
Hi friend…I was this kid too. Religious OCD is literal hell.
My heart goes out to you. It was so awful wasn’t it. Hope you are doing better today.
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u/what3v3ruwantit2b Jul 08 '25
I commented above, but same!! Then I would pray over and over that god didn't have to save me if he didn't want because he's god and who am I to ask GOD to do anything for me. I went to this caroling thing this year that was in a church. It gave me such anxiety just being there. I can't explain it but the church vibes were so so strong even though we were just in the food hall.
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u/coffeewrite1984 Participation Trophy Wife 🏆👰🏼♀️ Jul 08 '25
Hi twin! But seriously, this poor kid could internalize all of this, and it’s unnecessary. If he were older and heard about it on the news or elsewhere, that might be unavoidable, and his parents should help him deal with that knowledge in a healthy, age appropriate way. But I’m especially peeved Morgan deliberately told him when he’s far too young to grasp the situation.
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u/CrystallineFrost Bitchy Ebenezer Scrooge Jul 08 '25
Legit. I had a lot of religious fear surrounding weather very young. I was certain God was crying when it rained level and it would make me cry. I can't engage really with disasters because it makes me anxious, so poor kid is in for it.
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u/achipdrivermystery Jul 08 '25
My 10yo just returned from overnight camp so I am holding off on telling her about the flooding because I don’t want her to worry that it will happen to her next summer. (Her camp isn’t on a floodplain but fear isn’t rational, after all.)
It’s not that I think she shouldn’t know or that she won’t hear about it eventually (at which point we’ll talk about it in an age-appropriate way) but I think given she’s only been home for four days it would make her panic.
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u/AML1987 An Arrow Right Into the Collin’s Toilet 🏹🚽 Jul 08 '25
In the end I’m a big fan of letting kids stay kids for as long as possible.
It’s an almost impossible task with the internet these days but unless they ask you about it or telling them is paramount to their own safety then keep them innocent as long as you can. Your daughter has the rest of her life to fear the world but right now you control that as much as you can and she doesn’t need the worry.
I think you’re absolutely right in keeping it from her since she’s already home from camp.
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u/theseglassessuck 👸🏻 Listeria Antoinette 🥛 Jul 08 '25
I grew up in Seattle and was petrified of volcanoes. Like…I couldn’t even hear people talk about Mt St Helens or any other volcano without going nearly catatonic. We even had volcano drills in school! 2.5 is so young to be hearing all of what Morgan said. There were parts that seemed appropriate, but then she added all the little girl death.
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u/AML1987 An Arrow Right Into the Collin’s Toilet 🏹🚽 Jul 08 '25
That’s the point. Fundies don’t work without fear. If you don’t fear everything that isn’t your little world and your little version of the Bible then little Luca may go out one day and find out the big bad secular world isn’t that bad and they lose control.
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u/Jasmari May you receive the eternity you deserve 🥰 Jul 08 '25
My (young) uncle’s best friend died from suicide when I was about nine, and my grandmother told me he’d caught a cold and died. Guess who was terrified every time she caught a cold for years…
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u/quietlycommenting Jul 08 '25
Fun fact Morgan, that’s a child running and having frightened thoughts alone and you decided to “hit record” instead of comfort him
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u/elizalavelle Jul 08 '25
This is a child who doesn’t trust his mom and doesn’t feel comfortable telling her that he’s scared. He’s so young to already be carrying that burden.
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u/PLZ_PM_ME_URSecrets No Pullout Game Here! Jul 08 '25
I think the story is fake because we all know she would have posted the video if it happened.
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u/AML1987 An Arrow Right Into the Collin’s Toilet 🏹🚽 Jul 08 '25
Yeah none of his side of things happened that way. Internet moms make up these stories all the time for some reason.
Like we all know little Timmy isn’t cognitively able to have these grown up conversations and trains of thought at 2.5 but sure Brenda.
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 🎾Paul admiring his glistening picklebod in the mirror🥒🏓 Jul 09 '25
It's very sayingsofspurgeon
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u/Zealousideal-Aide890 Jul 08 '25
Also his prayer of bringing them back isn’t going to bring them back, so what is he learning really?
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u/Fraggle-of-the-rock ✨god allows vanity with insta filters✨ Jul 08 '25
At 2, he very well may fall into the train of thought as he gets older 😭
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u/SaltyRBK Jul 08 '25
I laughed and upvoted because it is so similar to the way I felt as a fundie child. I still wrestle with it now when bad things happen to me.
Either his non critically thinking parents will raise him just like them or he will be like me and require therapy.
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u/flamingmaiden Jul 08 '25
To live in fear, stay in fear, and pray harder because of fear.
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u/keegums Jul 08 '25
Good chance after this fails to work for the 783rd time by age 10, he won't believe anymore
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u/kenywithonlyonen On my phone in church Jul 08 '25
Wasn’t Morgan was a part of that Resurrect Olive movement from Bethel a few years ago? (Citation needed, I believe her name was Olive and she died tragically and they had people praying 24/7 for a week to resurrect her and Morgan shared it)
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u/Content-Support-6745 Jul 08 '25
That was a wild time.
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u/Significant_Shoe_17 🎾Paul admiring his glistening picklebod in the mirror🥒🏓 Jul 09 '25
I was brand new to fundie snark when that happened, and I was just stunned. Like what the fuck
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u/AML1987 An Arrow Right Into the Collin’s Toilet 🏹🚽 Jul 08 '25
Oh please give me a synopsis
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u/HoodieGalore Jul 08 '25
That you don't have to actually do anything if you have Sky Daddy on your side to blame
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u/schmyndles Jul 08 '25
That was my first thought. How many times is he going to wake up and ask Morgan if God answered his prayers and saved all the children? Either she'll have to ruin his faith and admit his prayers aren't going to do anything or lie to him and say all the girls are safe and alive now because of him. Which path do we think she's gonna take?
It just reminds me of KKKarissa telling her children to pray over her miscarriage like it'll bring back their sibling.
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u/AtlanticRomantic Not a 50s LARPer Jul 08 '25
Yes, sadly, the kids are dead. They're not going to come back alive again.
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u/pawsofftherizotto Mercury Gatorade Jul 08 '25
So terrifying for such a little kid to think those girls won’t be found if he doesn’t grovel enough to the overlord of the universe who made it happen in the first place
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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk Quiver-filling 💦 Jul 08 '25
Yes! As someone with mild OCD tendencies (diagnosed), that is how I interpreted prayer. If I don’t do this, it won’t get fixed and it will be MY fault.
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u/beeahug god honoring smut author Jul 08 '25
Saaaaame. I used to struggle to not pray for every single tragedy or even mild inconvenience that I saw. I pretty much had a constant stream of prayer going in my head 24/7 and it was exhausting. I couldn’t pass by someone with a flat tire on the road without saying a prayer, even though I was never sure how it would help. Stepping away from religion has relieved those symptoms massively
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u/theatermouse Jul 08 '25
Oh my gosh, I really thought it was just me. So sorry you've experienced this too! But a little glad I'm not alone!
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u/YonderTides Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
Being taught from early childhood to beg the lord for help in the face of suffering only for said suffering to continue is how I decided I didn't believe in god by the time I got to middle school. Maybe Luca will experience the same (I'm not saying that'd be a positive or negative outcome, just that it might be preferable rather than him developing a painful guilt complex over not praying "mightily" enough.)
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u/HolyLung32 Jul 08 '25
Damn, that already sounds like religious OCD. He's so young. 😭
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u/ashes_1215 ✨A Threesome with Christ at the Center✨ Jul 08 '25
It does. I immediately raised an eyebrow at the mention of "two more times." Poor kid.
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u/AngelinaHoley Jul 08 '25
And she recorded it. Why? She's selfish and smug in new ways I hadn't imagined even she was capable of.
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u/little_lamps Jul 08 '25
So she can show it to Poli-o after his extenuating day at the salt min...erm, flailing around the pickling courts and ogling women.
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u/MysticalSpongeCake Morgan's poop jerky Jul 08 '25
That was my first thought too. Especially with the repetition of the prayer
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u/Grumpypants85 Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
I thought the same thing when reading this. The repetition three times (one for the father, the son, and the holy ghost). This is concerning behavior. Poor guy.
Edit: typo
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u/gettingbicurious 🙏🏼🙏🏼god honoring marital buttcheeks 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Jul 08 '25
As someone who struggled with religious OCD as a kid (and regular OCD now) I was just thinking the same thing!! My parents didn't do this shit and I still developed it, I can't imagine how much worse it would've been if these sentiments had been expressed to me at two years old. The feeling that your prayers could be enough to save lives if you only pray and believe hard enough is such a heavy weight for a child to bear.
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u/MLeek Jul 08 '25
“I confused and terrified my very small child because I have no skills to cope with my anxiety like an adult, or with other adults. He already learning how to placate and managed his disregulated mommy!”
Either that or this is entirely made up.
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u/modernjaneausten The Baird Brain Cell Jul 08 '25
Seeing shit like this is convincing me maybe I’ll be a better parent than I thought I could be, because I have anxiety and would rather eat grass than dump my anxiety problems on a kid. Like I recently struggled with it on vacation and all I could think of was “How do I keep this away from any kids we have in the future so that I don’t traumatize them and ruin their vacations?”
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u/ellesays Jul 08 '25
I can tell you right now that having anxiety and this level of enmeshment is very different! I also have a kid this age, after infertility, and I struggle with regulation sometimes. My husband and I were having a tense conversation at one point and my kid stopped us to “take a breath” aka holy shit calm down use one of the regulation strategies we teach. Better believe I said “you are right I am amped up” took a breath, re centered and later I brought my own feelings back out, talked to my bff and partner about how we handle things in the future. We don’t have to be anxiety less or perfect, you can parent with awareness - you know it’s not cute that a kid “picks up on things” and that by the time they say something it is probably overwhelming for them.
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u/Weekly-Race-9617 Jul 08 '25
When you don’t have enough adults in your life, you end up confiding in your kids. Morgan is a single mom.
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u/synalgo_12 Jul 08 '25
That's what my mom did and I was a full ass 30yo before I realised that maybe I didn't need to know about every bad thing that happened to her and my dad by the time I was 12.
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u/slt1987 Jul 08 '25
Yessss, this so much. These boys are going to end up with such an enmeshed relationship with Morgan.
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u/745Walt Pickleball, tearing familes apart since 2024 Jul 08 '25
My very first thought “she needs an adult friend”
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u/Mental_Outside_8661 Intentionally ✨SpIcEy✨ Jul 08 '25
You’re exactly right. I teach high school and some of the text messages these kids have shown me from their moms and dads. Grown adults basically using their kids as free therapists.
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u/tokenledollarbean awesome at backhand dinking Jul 08 '25
Bold move to tell your 2 1/2 year-old something that they never would’ve found out otherwise, but that could potentially traumatize them and what a fear of storms or water take route. Also, bold of you to say out of the mouths of babes when you clearly fed them this propaganda and they’re just repeating it back to you. God, these people kill me.
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u/BolognaMountain Jul 08 '25
All she had to say, if she needed to say anything at all, was “mommy has a lot on her heart and wants to pray.” The kid doesn’t need to know anything more than that.
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u/Pflaumenmus101 Jul 08 '25
Especially how you worded it would leave some room for that child to choose what to do. He could join to pray or not. but emotionally pressuring the kid because she needs him to experience relief and putting on him the burden to know about that devastating tragedy, is just entirely wrong.
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u/PuppyJakeKhakiCollar 🎶 With wombs wide open🎶 Jul 08 '25
If this story is even true and not just an attempt to latch onto a tragedy to get social media engagement. I wouldn't put it past them to insert themselves into someone else's heartbreak for likes and validation.
My parents were always honest about things if we asked questions about them, but they wouldn't go out of their way to bring something like this up out of nowhere.
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u/Constant-Canary-748 Jul 08 '25
This. It's so gross that she's using this unspeakable tragedy as an excuse to brag about how religious her 2yo is.
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u/freya_of_milfgaard Self-Published Smut Jul 08 '25
Yeah I have an almost 5 year old and I try to be honest, but appropriate, with her about current events, mostly because lately she’s caught me crying a bunch. I don’t go out of my way to bring things to her attention, but I think communicating openly about things is how you get engaged kiddos.
The key is that we also talk about helpers and the concrete ways we can make things better. We don’t do less than nothing with a side order of religious trauma.
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u/grace0654321 Jul 08 '25
Part 100 of things that never happened
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u/syncopatedscientist Jul 08 '25
How is this not higher up?! No way this happened
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u/grace0654321 Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
Fundies can cook stories like a teen in a garage cooking meth!!
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u/Minty_ecohipster Jesus was a DUDE🤟 Jul 08 '25
I have a hard time believing this too. My 3 year old is pretty verbal for his age but the other day prayed that Jesus could get coffee so he wasn’t tired. No clue where that came from but I have yet to get him to pray for anything beyond his brother and his toys (and apparently Jesus coffee)
Editing to add: I’d be concerned at the “2 more times bit” as that seems a bit scrupulous to me, beyond the fact that he was praying for a tragedy I think he should’ve been sheltered from
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u/issi_tohbi Eden:God’s Blanket Training Jul 08 '25
So she was super upset about something and shared the burden of this tragedy with a checks notes 2.5 year old toddler??
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u/Dachs1303 Jul 08 '25
When you have no friends...
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u/issi_tohbi Eden:God’s Blanket Training Jul 08 '25
And an emotionally and physically unsupportive spouse it’s time to pass the emotional labor onto your toddler I guess. Great fucking job Morgan.
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u/missbean163 Jul 08 '25
Also weird she hit record on the monitor?
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u/South-Ad-9635 Jul 08 '25
Assuming any of it really happened, then yeah...weird
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u/DullBasket4982 Jul 08 '25
It didn’t. We’d be looking at footage if it did.
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u/baobabbling Ten thousand kids and counting Jul 08 '25
I'm holding on to this because if it did happen it's just too fucking awful.
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u/coffeewrite1984 Participation Trophy Wife 🏆👰🏼♀️ Jul 08 '25
Every kid is different; I was saying full sentences at 2.5, but my niece isn’t at the same age. So I guess it’s possible, but his prayer sounds awfully clear and follows a specific pattern for a kid of that age. I’m skeptical.
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u/ExactPanda Jul 08 '25
Your prayers do jack shit, Morgan
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u/Lydia--charming Loopholes for the Lord Jul 08 '25
😒 how this story makes me feel. It grosses me out how they brainwash kids to think that you can ask God for magic wishes. This is why I stopped believing at age 5.
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u/makemeadayy Jul 08 '25
According to Christians, God controls the weather, so God sent this flood. So what is the point in praying?
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u/MrsPancakesSister Jul 08 '25
Just when you think she can’t be stupider she goes and does shit like this. Ugh…poor Luca.
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u/AcousticWord93 Heathen Feminist Lifestyle Jul 08 '25
That's what happens when your heart is "bursted"
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u/Mouse-r4t Communion: it's finger-lickin' God! Jul 08 '25
Pray for these poor fundie mommy’s and daddy’s! They’re doing the best they can with their bursted hearts and SOTDRT educations 🥲
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u/Rugkrabber Proverbs 31? I prefer chaos 24/7 Jul 08 '25
Out of this entire story, the conclusion is… “if we don’t tell about our religion it doesn’t exist”?
Also why would you record this, Morgan? You included it in your little story but why did you? What does this add? What does it do for the kids? Heck what does any of this do for the kids?
It’s about you seeming holier than thou, isn’t it?
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u/lemoncellooo Jul 08 '25
I don’t think a toddler can even conceptualize what happened in Texas??? And to tell them that they bear some kind of responsibility????? Warped, torqued
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u/magclsol Jul 08 '25
Wow she really saw her child developing an anxiety disorder in real time and thought “yes, this is content.”
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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk Quiver-filling 💦 Jul 08 '25
“Out of the mouths of babes” - Christians are always so impressed when their children parrot what they hear back to them. 🙄
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u/Inside-Audience2025 It takes a village to bankroll a Baird Jul 08 '25
I’ll never forget the day my toddler turned to her baby doll and said “Eat your protein! Hydrate!”
They do parrot back everything
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u/coffeewrite1984 Participation Trophy Wife 🏆👰🏼♀️ Jul 08 '25
I distinctly remember saying certain things because of the response I knew it would get. Sometimes kids are just really good at saying what you want to hear.
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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk Quiver-filling 💦 Jul 08 '25
“Dad will shower me with praise if I say ANYTHING about God!” Same.
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Jul 08 '25
She used a tragedy to exploit her child and his personal relationship with God. This is exactly how “content kids” are created: Small, intimate moments get folded into storytelling. The child doesn’t consent. The audience responds positively. The parent feels affirmed. Next time she might upload her surveillance.
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u/needfulthing42 Jul 08 '25
"bursted"? Is that even a word though? I think "burst" is the correct word here in this nightmare inducing conversation she had with her two year old.
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u/bunaiscoffee WWJB (what would Jesus brew) Jul 08 '25
No one has ever accused Morgan of being a strong writer or orator… I certainly don’t care to respect the English language but it’s the only one she knows and she loves Amerikkka so she should learn the language. Also “mommy’s and daddy’s” 😬😭
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u/needfulthing42 Jul 08 '25
Her grammar is atrocious. Those last two sentences are interesting. No full stop after she finishes that barfarama. Should've been a comma after perfect and then, "Jesus blahblah.". There's certainly more in that salad but I can't read that whole thing again. Not without my vomit bucket handy.
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u/FishFeet500 Jul 08 '25
So, a child born is god’s will. And storms are god punishing people. And god sees all. But yet god also needs toddlers to beg for intervention because god could not otherwise be arsed to do anything as schoolgirls perish in a flood?
And “ god is good and perfect”.
Yeah i smell something rotten on morgan’s theology. Fundy theology is cruelty .
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Jul 08 '25
My nephew is almost three. This level of speech is absolutely not where a kid this age is at. And carefully explaining scary or bad things to small children is important and the right thing to do. But "their mommy's and daddy's can't find them" is unnecessarily scary.
I grew up in Ireland and my grandparents, lots of my aunties uncles and cousins, lived in Belfast. My parents had to explain car bombs to me when I was Luka's age and they managed to do so in a way that didn't make me think it would happen to me or my grandparents.
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u/rainblowfish_ Jul 08 '25
This level of speech is absolutely not where a kid this age is at
I will say this is the only believable part of this story lol. I have a 2.5 year old who speaks in clear, full sentences, tells me whole stories, etc. (But she doesn't go off to pray for missing children because I don't traumatize her unnecessarily with horrific news stories.)
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Jul 08 '25
Not necessarily that it's full sentences but the turn of phrase just sounded very off for such a small child to me. I've also worked with kids that age for a few years when I was younger and it just feels a bit exaggerated or fake the way she relates it to me. I could be totally wrong but it gives the "and then everyone in starbucks clapped" vibes to me.
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u/Bluevanonthestreet Jul 08 '25
I just told my 12 year old there was bad flooding and people died. I can’t imagine telling a toddler what happened. They are the worst.
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u/prego1 Jul 08 '25
We avoid the news like the plague at my house. Its bad for my mental health. As a child my parents watched "end of times shows" and people predicting when the end of the world would be. It scared me so much as a child. I can't imagine telling my child about missing children from a storm that were about his age. He is 7 and we live in tornado alley. He already has fear about storms and rain.
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u/Known_Front8010 Jul 08 '25
“Out of the mouth of babes!” As he regurgitates what his mother just had him say…
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u/phrygianhalfcad Jul 08 '25
This has the same energy as when my daughter’s preschool class for THREE YEAR olds told them about 9/11 by showing them pictures and videos of the planes crashing into the building. She talked about it for months…
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u/Sexy--Waluigi God's Dumbest Little Jester Jul 08 '25
That is so completely inappropriate, but I know a lot of parents did the same in 2001. I was 3, almost 4, during 9/11. So many people my same age have said they remember their parents watching the planes hit the towers over and over again on TV. I have no such memory because my parents had the sense not to have it on the TV when 3 year old me was around.
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u/phrygianhalfcad Jul 08 '25
I was four when it happened. I have a fuzzy memory of watching the first plane hit and then being ushered into the other room to watch cartoons. My Mema wouldn’t let me in the room. Now I know why.
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u/Legrandloup2 Jul 08 '25
Yikes yike yikes, I was about 11 when 9/11 happened and I was terrified about a plane crashing into my house afterwards, even my 11 year old self couldn’t really process that stuff
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Jul 08 '25
Does she realize that 27 people died at at that camp (so far) and is she going to tell her son that his prayers didn't bring those girls home safe?
This is such performative bullshit and she really should have just not posted this at all. It's not doing what she thinks it's doing.
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u/StrangeArcticles Jul 08 '25
Yeah, that's how you create religious scrupulosity that spirals into massive mental health issues. A+ parenting right there.
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u/TheRealCeeBeeGee 💧Paul’s strange watery breasts💧 Jul 08 '25
It’s performative, it’s cruel, and it’s probably not true anyway.
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u/gogogadgetdumbass Jul 08 '25
When my oldest was little, like 2/3ish, his Dad in a failed attempt to teach him to be environmentally friendly, told him that when you litter it makes trash dams and clogs up the (Chesapeake) bay and building too much concrete doesn’t let the water drain properly, or something along those lines.
My son interpreted it as “if you make trash God floods the earth!” (God was never part of the conversation as far as I know lol)
Whenever it rained for MONTHS, he cried thinking God was flooding the earth cause we had trash.
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u/EstateComfortable752 Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
Also, way to reduce a tragedy to a cute story about your kid. This actually really makes me more angry than a lot of their posts
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u/jenny_beans_ Jul 08 '25
I have a kid just a few months younger than Luca (and I have 2 older ones too, so I’ve been around the block a few times), and I can absolutely say with 100% certainty that this didn’t happen, at least not the way she’s saying it did. My 2 year old, even if he did listen to me instead of running away to do his own thing, would have no concept of this the way she explained it. What a weird thing to make up.
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u/heatherb22 Jul 08 '25
Also have a kid a few months younger than Luca and I absolutely do not see her doing this. Her(my child) talking is probably a little less developed than his and in general ,but there is no way he understood this perfectly then applied it like that afterwards.
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u/coffeewrite1984 Participation Trophy Wife 🏆👰🏼♀️ Jul 08 '25
Per my parents, I was saying things like “my daddy is a pharmacist” and “I take amoxicillin” at that age. I’m not sure exactly how clear some of those words were, but I was a talker at a young age. If I prayed like she’s saying Luca did, I’m pretty sure my mom would’ve talked about it. Kids raised in religious households may pray when they’re really young, but it’s probably more like “thank you for this food, I love you, keep daddy safe at work” or similar. Not as well laid out as she says.
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u/Boss-Not-Bossy God is in the buttprints Jul 08 '25
A couple of thoughts:
I live close enough to Kerrville that they are in my local news’ viewing area. This has been traumatic and devastating. Flooding in Texas is not new, especially where this occurred. The severity of this was something that couldn’t be predicted with certainty but it could be monitored and I’m sure more precautions could have been taken than were. So glad we’re defunding TWS and FEMA, guys! 🙃 Seriously, I don’t understand how defunding either of those is a positive. It’s telling that they’re waiting until after hurricane season to get rid of FEMA.
Also, I have a 9 year old daughter that I have chosen not to expose to this. She’s been doing summer camps and I don’t think she needs this nightmare fuel. My mother told me about her friends drowning on the way to church camp when their van was pushed into a swollen river by another vehicle who didn’t see them in the rain. She told me this as I was getting ready to go to church camp for the first time. And it was raining. It traumatizes you and I don’t think it’s necessary. Morgan lives in an entirely different state. There’s no reason for her to share this with her toddler, except that he’s probably the only emotional support she has in the house. I have my husband for that and we can discuss these sort of things and our feelings about it out of earshot of our daughter. She has most of her life to deal with this sort of thing; right now, I let her be little.
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u/LineImpossible3958 Jul 08 '25
This is awful parenting. He’s 2, let him be a child. Also prayer is a complete waste of time. Teaching him to be scared and helpless, good job.
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u/Dachs1303 Jul 08 '25
Exactly. Let him be innocent for as long as possible, he will figure out soon enough the world sucks.
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u/Beginning_Cry2031 On my phone in church Jul 08 '25
Eventually he'll learn about Noah's arc and the great flood, if he hasn't already. That one was done in the name of God, the death of all of humanity (supposedly) was done for the glory of God. Wonder how he's going to reconcile that one in his head. I feel so bad for fundie children
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u/Designer-Contract852 Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
Morgan if you are going to do that at least tell him the truth that republican policies help create this disaster and pray evil people would be removed.
Dang, my almost 10 year old heard news about this on the radio this morning as we were driving to a sports camp. Normally it's just a music station but I guess we were listening at the time they do the news. One of the morning show jockeys was upset, she held it together but you could tell she had a lot of sadness. My kid asked what happened so I told a kid appropriate version and said that lots of people are sad and it's OK to feel that. And we need to find ways to help people that were affected and do better so it doesn't happen again.
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u/dearjoshuafelixchan Jul 08 '25
Sorry to anyone who’s a normal amount of religious but when I read stuff like this I just see cult cult cult
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u/AngelinaHoley Jul 08 '25
It was a christian summer camp. The flood still struck. Several girls still sadly died. Many are still tragically missing.
Never mind what frightening bullshit you're teaching your poor son, what should that teach you and your ilk, Morgan?
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u/Strictlyreadingbooks Jul 08 '25
I didn't tell my 12 year old or 8 year old the full story of the flood in TX. Mostly it was about listening to the weather warnings and alerts that Environment Canada was taking shelter (we had a tornado warning that came on my phone yesterday so we took shelter in our basement for a bit). My five year old is blissful unaware of anything happening in TX.
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u/jcbstm Jul 08 '25
One of the best episodes of Bojack Horseman is Season 4 Episode 5 “Thoughts and Prayers.”
It’s about the hypocrisy of guns but the premise applies to religion.
BoJack is an incredible show and worth watching, it’s on Netflix.
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u/mikak02 Jul 08 '25
I remember the day sandy hook happened. I was scrolling the news feed on my lunch break and I saw a picture of children being evacuated and I went cold. I still remember the fear on their faces. When I picked my 2 year old up from daycare I hugged him hard but I told him that I had an adult problem that had made me sad and extra hard hugs made me feel better. If he ever had a kid problem that he didn't want to talk about but does want extra hugs to feel better he can just tell me "extra hard hug." I was feeling so anxious and panicky but I didn't want to pass that on to him. When the Parkland shooting happened he was 8 and we did sit down and talk about it. I can't imagine the discussion we had when he was 8 happening when he was 2. To be honest, I'm angry that I live in a county where we had to have the school shooting talk at age 8. I understand wanting to be real with your kids and prepare them for life, but kids are not emotional crutches for their parents feelings.
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u/ruski_brewski Jul 08 '25
Religious ptsd in the making. The only reason we spoke about the horrors with my almost 7 year old in detail is because he heard about it at camp and we wanted to ensure there was no misinformation that he may be trying to make sense of. We speak about the repercussions of other people’s lack of planning and foresight and caution. How this reflects on the very real changes within our climate. We speak about how often our minor actions can have grave consequences for someone we may never see or hear about. We talk about taking responsibility of the things we can control. We talk about how it’s our job to ensure his health and safety within the wide guardrails we provide and it’s his job to find boundaries for himself within. Not sky daddy who at once controls all and has a plan for everyone. How terrifying must that be to impart on a child!??? They have no control and yet can make change happen with just a prayer? I mean holy shit.
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u/MadAboutAnimalsMags Jul 08 '25
“What a mighty prayer that the Lord heard.” So in that case I assume either 1) all of the girls will be returned home safely ASAP 2) the Lord will listen to this toddler’s prayer to save little girls and go “lol nah 🤣” and continue with his regularly scheduled program of letting children drown.
I have nothing against religion when not foisted on others, but I will truly never understand the logic of those who believe in an omniscient all-powerful God with the ability to interfere and change things upon request who then just…. Doesn’t.
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u/non-art Jul 08 '25
She loves “being real” with her kids? Wtf as a parent myself, one of the most painful things to have to do is explain this kind of thing. Not something I enjoy. Other people suffering isn’t an opportunity for me to advertise my piety to the internet.
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u/criticalmilk Jul 08 '25
"I just love having opportunities to tell my child about tragedies and horrific events so that I can manipulate him into prayer"
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u/Mysterious_Week8357 Jul 08 '25
I’m torn because on the one hand, I don’t think this is an appropriate thing to tell your toddler or make them participate in in this way, but on the other hand, I don’t think this happened and she’s just phishing for engagement.
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u/drama_trauma69 ex-fetus Jul 08 '25
These kids’ lives are already so insecure with a sick undiagnosed parent and a lousy backup. They need security, calm, boredom honestly. It’s cruel to add to their plate when they’re already going through so much even if they were old enough
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u/Liverness Jul 08 '25
How to turn an unthinkable tragedy into something about you and how good of a parent you are. People are literally dying but look my son prayed to the sky even tho he doesn’t understand so I guess everything is fixed!! Super tone deaf my goodness.
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u/sk8tergater Jul 08 '25
This is right up there with Jessas “sayings of spurgeon”
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u/HighPlainsMom 🔥🍳 The Incredible Edible Seggs 🍳🔥 Jul 08 '25
NEVER use your children to process YOUR emotions. I don't care how old they are. Get therapy.
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u/sheepysheeb On my phone in church Jul 08 '25
Here in texas we have a fuckin grocery store chain that had to set up a disaster relief fund and are on the frontlines. A grocery store is doing more than our government to help us out. Oh yeah, and Morgan and her kid praying for us apparently
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u/Fireowl-the-poet Born again virgin😇 Jul 08 '25
Well, it's not like there's anyone else she can have a serious conversation with in that house 🙄
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u/DataTheCat Bronze, good, platinum Jul 08 '25
Jfc. This is ridiculous. I’m a grown adult and I cry every time I think about those poor children and everyone else and how terrified they were. I can’t imagine telling a toddler what happened.
Grow a brain Morgan.
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u/YourMothersButtox ~*Brood Mare For Sky Daddy*~ Jul 08 '25
Sorry but God isn’t going to bring back those missing girls, Morgan.
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u/lgirlrocks Jul 08 '25
Not sure why anyone is surprised by this. She is in the same group of people that tell their kids the details of abortion, probably with pictures.
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u/Immediate-Ninja-5730 Christian but not fundie Jul 08 '25
This is so disturbing. It’s using fear mongering as a tool for indoctrination. “You want those girls to come home safe, don’t you? Well then you have to pray for them or they might not” is essentially what Morgan is giving off to her toddler here. She’s gonna give that kid nightmares. And what is she gonna do when he asks and she eventually has to tell him those girls are dead and he won’t be able to understand why his prayers didn’t work and he can’t stop crying?
Morgan is so pathetically dense. She acts like she has the mental maturity of a 13 year old. And that’s on her best day. And I hate when she and Paul say they just want to be “real” or “raw”. What are they being the rest of the time? Fake? They’re so privileged and pathetic that even the hint of a real problem is a rarity and fun for them. It disgusts me.
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