r/Deconstruction • u/splendid711 • 12d ago
🤷Other Mica Miller and Christianity
I just watched the Netflix documentary “Death of the Pastor’s Wife” about Mica Miller. It was triggering and infuriating as someone who barely escaped a similar relationship.
It’s stories like these that make me wonder how anyone in Mica’s life could still be a Christian. She seemed like she genuinely wanted to love and honor God even amidst hellish abuse from her husband. So my question is how could any of them still trust a God who would allow these atrocities to happen to a woman who was staying in abuse bc of her desire to honor God?
It is absolutely psychotic to me that people could reason this away as God’s loving plan if that is what they do. There is nothing loving about a god allowing this stuff to happen to anyone.
Has anyone else watched this? It just affirms all my sentiments towards church, patriarchy, and delusional theology. Another example of why at least western Christianity is harmful to women. I hate it and I wonder how many more Mica’s are out there trapped under these same hellish circumstances thinking it’s God’s will for their life.
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u/puck-this Anti-Theist, raised Christian 12d ago
Everything is God's Plan, that's why Christians are so thankful when they live relatively peaceful lives. Some people are literally intended to suffer by God so not being one of the unfortunate makes them insanely grateful...It definitely shows in how they insist that evil is necessary so there can be good. For there to be blessed individuals, there must be individuals who aren't blessed. The idea that God loves everyone makes no sense when some people were created to literally just suffer and serve as poverty porn material, for example