Just received horrible text

[PaulRuddislush]

Hi everyone I'm new here. About 30 minutes ago my phone pinged with a big ranty, sweary text. I was very confused as the sender is a lady I'm friendly with through the choir we both attend and I don't have an awful lot to do with her other than church and guide association fundraising.
The text was appalling, the phrase "I hope you rot in hell you rancid c**t" was particularly horrible.
Then another text came through with profuse apologies as it wasn't intended for me (thank goodness).
My AIBU is this woman is allegedly a committed Christian with a big community presence yet she's just displayed some very unChristian behaviour, I'm not sure whether to tell anyone about this in RL. She can be quite demanding and sanctimonious and I feel incredibly sorry for the intended recipient.
Sorry for the rambling, it's been quite upsetting.

I might send one back and say-

Well that wasn’t very Christian! But I’ll forgive you, 😬

She apologised and said she never meant to send you it. How she speaks to people in her life is none of your concern so I would just forget about it! There's no need to tell anyone just because she's "un-Christian." My advice is to stay out of it.

You don’t know what the intended recipient has done though.

Personally, I’d forget it.

Your username is completely correct by the way!

No no engage with this woman and find out the story! Then come back and update 😄

I would delete and not mention it to her or anyone else.

haha! I'd hang onto that one just in case she tried lording it over me at Church ('scuse the pun!) In the future.
Don't tell anyone now though because you've no idea who it was for.

Who would you tell. The Pope? The Archbishop of Canterbury?

Also she may have been forwarding a text from someone else that she had received from a nasty person

Well religious people are no better behaved than anyone else so it's not surprising. I wouldn't mention it.

I’d move on from it since she apologised, but I’d keep her at arms length from now on now you’ve seen under the curtain!

She's apologised so I'd ignore it & pretend it never happened.

Maybe her son sent that message. Also even committed christians lose their temper sometimes. She'll be praying for forgiveness tonight.

My friend is religious and cracks me up when she calls someone a cunt.

Keep it in your locker

In all seriousness if I were in your shoes I would be tempted to just say “re your text the other night: dunno what’s going on but I hope you’re ok” and then just leave it.

She might not be

I’m sorry but I had to giggle, holier than thou church goer is a secret potty mouth, you must inform the parish council at once!! Joking aside, no you shouldn’t mention it to anyone. Maybe you could ask if she’s ok. If she’s sending texts like that to someone and it’s very out of character for her, the intended recepicant must have done something pretty terrible to cause her to be that irate/upset.

You sound like a typical judgemental Christian.

“how she speaks to people in her life is none of your concern”

Of course it is if she’s a sanctimonious, Christian demanding others behave in a particular way, is representing the church etc.

I’d text her back “If the intended recipient of that text knows which church you attend, then I’m very embarrassed how you’ve represented our congregation.”

I’d move on from it since she apologised, but I’d keep her at arms length from now on now you’ve seen under the curtain!

Exactly

Tell her a bottle of wine your way will cover her for cussing!!

Thanks for replying everyone, I was just a bit freaked out and needed a different perspective.
I won't mention it to anyone and have deleted the text, it was stressing me out.
Just shows you what some people are really like under the surface I suppose.

Oooh, any idea who the text was meant for?

Your username is correct, he’s definitely improved with age.

I’d send something back like “wow, I wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of you!’

I would definitely keep my distance though OP!

it might if been to her husband /wife who's just cheated on them.

or the ow

or they forgot to put the toilet seat down and the lid back on the toothpaste

It's called kryptonite.

That's hillarious!! Save it (just in case you ever need it), do nothing (for now!)