They even say that the girl had to die for the sins of the group. Throughout the episode whenever they were accussing one of the group they were sure to show them wearing their crosses.
Sorry for the rant but it's just so noticeable I can't believe I never registered it before
The first breach in my Atheism was fully realizing how much they hate Christians, Christianity, and Jesus. If you think something is dumb and illogical, why spend every single second exclusively talking about it? Because "it's the dominant culture?" Yeah, maybe 70 years ago before every institution became converged.
The 2010 surge in atheism was in response to an attempt by evangelicals to take over the education system and make factually untrue claims - namely young earth creationism. This pushback was necessary and largely successful, most of the prominent evangelical wackos became laughing stocks or were exposed as hypocrites or even criminals.
However, they couldn't leave good well enough alone and Dawkins et al set about dismantling and dismissing all community and spiritual benefits of religion. It quickly became apparent that this left them vulnerable to infection - Atheism+ infiltrated and destroyed the entire community because they had no strong beliefs or unified principles that could be used to expel them.
As they say, tradition is the solution to a problem we have forgotten.
You ever think that perhaps those wildly Extreme Evangelicals were a fringe bunch of wackos that were getting undue attention and power because the Left wanted them front and center to make Christians/Rightwingers/White people look retarded and their "institutions" need to be torn down?
Because the fact that we spent years hearing about the Westboro Baptist Church, despite it barely reaching 3 digit membership at the time and basically consisting of one big extended family total, makes it pretty clear that was the case.
Now that you've established a criteria for being a wacko retard (young earth creationism), do a little informal poll of churches in your area to find out how many people are retarded wackos (according to you).
You can use the gallup poll format for consistency:
I didn't that was you.
I went to both Catholic and Baptist churches in the 90s/00s (long story) and was well acquainted with most people during the time such was a peak discussion. Minimal wacko was openly discussed, and the handful of times it was was struck down by the Pastor or another man in charge (because it always came from panicky women). And this was the deep dirty Swamp South, the place literally used as the stereotype of where such madness happens.
I didn't even need them to tell me to hate gays. I just saw pro-gay fluff pieces on the news about Pride Parades and learned to do it on my own.
So I've got most of a large Parish worth of anecdotal data across two denominations pointing to the opposite of what the media told me it should be, and in 2024 we've got strong evidence how often said media will lie wholecloth.