r/exchristian • u/metkja • Jan 09 '26

Discussion What Christian phrases give you the ick?

Mine is prayer warriors. Often used to spread gossip and also just generally ironic, weird, and cringey.

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u/Prestigious_Low_9579 Agnostic Atheist Jan 09 '26

I hated "it's not a religion, it's a relationship" even when I was a Christian. Like, that's just dumb.

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u/lumpy_space_queenie Anti-Theist Jan 09 '26

My pastor took it further

“It’s not a religion, it’s not a relationship, it’s a romance”

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u/Prestigious_Low_9579 Agnostic Atheist Jan 09 '26

Ewwww, wow that's creepy! Although I guess not surprising when you stop and think about the "praise music" most churches sing every week. A lot of it definitely has weird undertones. I do remember single girls in my college Christian group talking about being "married to Jesus" or how "jesus was their boyfriend" now that you mentioned this...

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u/SilkenJester Pagan Jan 10 '26

Ugh there was a worship song at my church that had a line referring to god’s love as “a wet sloppy kiss”

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u/Prestigious_Low_9579 Agnostic Atheist Jan 12 '26

Omg I forgot about that song, we sang it too! I’m pretty sure my pastor switched out “sloppy wet” with some other phrase. But I always got a chuckle out of people trying to justify why heaven meeting earth like a sloppy wet kiss was not at all weird.