My aunt and her family are nothing but hypocrites

I just found this community and I thought I'd vent over here.

My aunt is the wife of a Baptist pastor and both them and their kids are very involved in church life. My uncle's sermons were always about love, acceptance, and all that jazz, and for the most part he was the only one out of that family to uphold it.

My aunt and cousins didn't, even though they loved acting like they were the most open and accepting pastor's family around.

My brother is an athiest, yet my aunt always made him (and me when she saw I started hating going to church) go to church, ignoring that it was straining their relationship. I always had to cover up around my cousin, even in 100 degree weather, because it "made him uncomfortable". My aunt went completely unglued on my brother for watching Devil May Cry walkthroughs because it "made him a devil worshipper". My uncle on the other hand was the rational one who asked my brother about the game and told my aunt to back off. My cousin wasn't allowed to play Zelda, Pokemon, or watch Harry Potter due to "magic", and he even tried throwing away his friend's Zelda games. We had to switch off a rated G movie because there was a portrait in the background (art gallery) of a naked person (I was around 16 at the time and my cousin was 17). I was the one who thought that was completely stupid.

Probably one of the biggest ones would have to be when my older sister outed me as bisexual to my aunt when I was around 12 years old. To put it into perspective, my aunt didn't like that my sister's friend was bi. When I asked what was so bad about that, she went into this whole spiel about how gay Jewish people controlled Hollywood, and I went outside to cool off (and because I knew there was no reasoning with her after that). My aunt apparently asked my sister if I was bi as well, and my cunt for brains of a sister said yes. You know what my aunt said to me, which led me to be ashamed of my sexuality until this year (I'm 20)?

"We'll get you help for it."

Suffice to say, my dad and stepmom were not happy when I told them that.

You want to know the final nail in the coffin that led to me cutting contact with them? My sister was kicked out of the house a bit before she graduated high school for being the manipulative bitch that she is. My aunt and her family completely believed everything that came out of my sister's mouth and ignored the fact that my brother and I were the ones who actually knew the whole story. When I went to visit my grandparents for my grandaddy's birthday, my aunt was there and she threatened to disown me for not taking my sister's side. She kept going on and on about it even though I kept asking her to drop it.

I left the house after not even five minutes of being there, and I called my dad to pick me up while I was having a panic attack and bawling my eyes out. I didn't even get to say hi to my grandparents.

I really don't know where I'm going with this, but the way my aunt and her family acted caused me to hate the church for a long, long time.

Submitted June 14, 2018 at 06:47PM by panda_98 https://ift.tt/2t3bGaP