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.

You absolutely have to find out what is wrong - its the christian thing to do then repost here

I’m a catholic and if your that easily offended by a text message then I dread to think how offended you would be by the things that come out of my mouth. She apologised so just forget about it.

Absolutely everyone is capable of an over the top reaction given enough provocation, religion doesn't come into it. Don't judge her too harshly.

Forward it to the Pope.

If this happened to me I wouldn't bring it up with her and would be unlikely to mention it to anyone else, however, I would quietly take a step back from the friendship. From what you have said it sounds as if she was being really quite nasty, not just losing her rag over something.

We're not particularly friendly, she's only in my contacts for the things I've said. I wouldn't have a clue who she meant to send it to. I'll be giving her a wide berth from now on.

I am sorry you are upset with good reason.
With reference to Christian behaviour, you do know that Jesus went into the temple and took on the traders with a whip.

Well considering which incarnation of Christian you're looking at it might be quite in line so I wouldn't say it's necessarily unChristian, wouldn't tie it to Christianity at all, so wouldn't out her as a nasty person on the basis of that, both elements are quite compatible historically. People don't need to be warned, dw, if they're unsettled it's in case their handy camouflage suddenly appears a little shaky or because they thought she was a nice person. Not because people can't picture Christians being nasty.

(disclaimer is that I grew up in a Xtian family, love and respect them, and generally respect people whether they're religious or not!)

In my experience the most overtly religious types are the biggest hypocrites.

I would text her back and ask her if she was OK and had anything happened? See if she talks about it to you. Could explain things.

Sure, it's not a nice text to send to someone, but we don't know whether that text was something sent to her that she was forwarding on to show someone/copy&p. Even if she was sending it to someone, you don't know what might have been said to her to provoke such a hostile reaction. Best not to judge too much.

Did Jesus whip the traders in the temple while calling them a rancid cunt?

What I’m taking from this... is the term “rancid cunt” and adding it to my already extensive and rather creative SwearBank.

Yes I shouldn't judge. After the apology text I texted back a mealy mouthed "no problem" because I didn't know what else to say.
I'm just not used to that level of vitriol. I feel sad for someone filled with that much hate, it must be exhausting.

I'm not sure whether to tell anyone about this in RL.

You should report her to the unChristian Police.

I don't know the number but you can probably google it.

Okay. I'm a Catholic, and very 'churchy'. If that happened, I'd be genuinely worried about the sender. This is totally out of character behaviour, so what the hell is going on for her? This sounds like the type of text I managed to stop myself from sending to stbexh's mistress, my 'best friend'. Catholics swear a lot, but we don't tend to be so horribly angry.

Maybe a text acknowledging you see this is weird for her, and asking if she needs anything? You never know, this may have been her way of reaching out for help - sending you something so furious, then waiting for you to ask if she's okay?

Baby Jesus will have read that text.

Did Jesus whip the traders in the temple while calling them a rancid cunt?

aaaaaand I’m dead 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I'll take that on board Arum. Thanks

I’m not sure what ‘Christian behaviour’ is but some of the ones I know swear quite a lot and can be nasty when they want/need to be. Obviously someone has upset her, luckily it wasn’t you 😬

@Arum51

What absolute twaddle. Of course catholics can be terribly angry, and sometimes some of them are. Just like Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, atheists, Jains and Wiccans can be.

Catholicism doesn’t make you a better class of human you know. And I say that as a Catholic.

I think you just cannot judge because you have no idea what the intended recipient did. He, or she might really be a “rancid c” for all you know. They do exist, and people have every right to be furious with them.

If you know her well, ask her if she is ok! If it's out of character there may be something really bad going on that has upset her. Either that, or she's being unreasonable and you need to know she's capable of this behaviour and keep your distance in future.

If you really feel you need to speak to someone beyond her, surely your priest is the obvious person?

She's a human being first, christian second and someone has obviously seriously upset/pissed her off. Since you don't know the reason for the text I suggest you put your judgey pants away.

I would text back saying ‘Thank goodness it wasn’t for me. I couldn’t think what I might have done to warrant that!’

And rancid cunt is a spectacularly vulgar and offensive turn of phrase. It