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.

@FiestaThenSiesta don't talk bollocks - 'representing the church' in her communications- it was a personal text sent to the wrong person not an advert in the parish magazine!!

Seriously OP if you don't know her well then you have no idea if this is representative of her normal behaviour, if it's a cause for concern or what somebody may have done to result in the sending of that message. You could respond 'no problem - r u OK?' Or simply 'no problem' and forget about it.

YABU to be so shocked at a conversation that was nothing to do with you (she apologised for mis-sending it).

YA also BU if your main concern is not that this friend might be in real trouble considering you say this is so out of character.

YANBU that it was probably a bit of a WTF moment when you read the text. I have some pretty sweary friends but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen them text “rancid cunt” to anyone. I shall get in there first. Thanks for the inspiration OP.

You never know , it could be an OW she is texting in which case she is to be excused

Maybe shes possessed, why talk to the vicar about an exorcism?

Ask her to turn the other cheek... if her head spins 360 degrees, run!

I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion she has ‘that much hate in her’ op. If it’s completely out of character then the charitable conclusion to jump to is someone she knows did something really really awful. I don’t know - Stole her dead dps ashes and flushed them down the toilet. Embezzled her retirement savings.

I’m a nice enough person, though an atheist. I also swear a lot.
If my bestie had lost 2lb this week when I had lost none, I might send a vitriolic OTT insult. She would find it funny, and either send an apology back - or trade worse insults.
It’s not everybody’s thing, but - remember that you’re reading this completely out of context.
Forget about it.

Yes I’ve met alleged Christians who are anything but. They think that if they go to church every Sunday then it completely absolves their nasty behaviour.

When is her birthday? You could get #rancidcunt printed on a tshirt for her to wear in choir practice

She's just texted again full of apologies and begging me not to tell anyone what she said. I actually feel really sorry for her now because she sounds so desperate.
I've assured her she's got nothing to worry about and as far as I'm concerned nothing has happened and I intend to never mention it again. I feel a bit better now, no idea what has precipitated this but I hope she resolves it soon.

i think this makes so many good Christians feels so bad about themselves.like how can they have inure of wrong thoughts?does this make them evil or ungodly or bad for their faith.but that not the point of being a good Christians.we are all human we all have ranty cunty fuckery thoughts sometimes.but its what you do with them and those of others that counts.its how you react and act and then think on from those asswhole moments.
or for her to be such a good person then something must have really gotten to her.so is she ok.

Maybe she's on here?

ellisandra haha a woman after my own heart I too would be doing this back and forth with someone its hilarious bantering by swearing sometimes.

It seems that there is something going on in her life which is pretty difficult for her. As she hasn’t volunteered a back story I would think the best thing you can do for her is put it behind you and keep your promise. Well done OP.

I think it would be a Christian thing to do to call her and ask if she's OK. She seemed like a nice woman, so it sounds as though someone has really upset her.

That's nothing. I used to work opposite a Christian bookshop, our staffroom was upstairs, directly facing theirs. One night after closing, they decided to have a loud room in their staffroom, with the curtains and windows open, and a bright red light on.

*ROMP, not room. Stupid autocorrect.

I would assume she was seriously rattled to have sent such a text and worry about what she is involved in, but ultimately, none of my business.

It might be in jest. Like me she might have a friend who she often exchanges incredibly rude texts with?

YABVVVU for not finding out the backstory!

OP - She won't be so sanctimonious and demanding around you after this! She'll always be wondering whether you have told anyone. And you haven't, except for us 🤣

Or maybe she meant to send it to, say, Nigel Farage/Donald Trump/Boris Johnson etc etc and their number's are just one digit different?

It definitely wasn't in jest. Anyway I've no intention of breaking my promise and I'll never know who was supposed to receive it or why. I'm now off to bed, thanks for input.

She's desperately lonely and wants to be your friend. She sent it because she knew you couldn't ignore it. Just my theory.