Christian on YouTube Says Japanese Deserved Earthquake and Tsunami For Being Atheist

Mar. 14, 2011
Brandon Scott Gorrell is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY.

I think this video is why people feel a sort of hopeless despair about the future – because we have people like this. People who sincerely believe that the wrecking of an entire country, loss of life and subsequent turmoil are because those affected don’t believe in a freaking myth.

UPDATE: I/ we have indeed – as was speculated by a number of commenters – actually, ‘been trolled.’

Jesus. I think 4chan got a hold of her, and they’re currently ripping her a new asshole in the comments section of this ‘coming clean’ video. It was probably /b/ who figured out the girl’s full name, address and phone number and posted it on TC’s Facebook page and/ or wherever else the original video’s been posted.

The problem many commenters seem to have is that they’ve interpreted her video(s) as just a way to get hits (attention), rather than a valuable social parody that informs/ educates/ incites reasonable discussion, or whatever. I’m currently a little confused about my feelings regarding this. Getting hits by just saying outright offensive shit kind of feels like cheating to me. Anyways, I feel kind of, uh…yeah. TC mark

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1183680010 Samuel Walker

    Just let them have jobs and be weird.

  • unkoyama

    Damn jihadists.

  • Stirlynd3

    oh my goodness gracious! It is bizarre that she believes that her “God” would kill over 10,000 people in order to make a point.

  • um

    it's painful to watch religious people's videos of themselves partly because they seem so self-indulgent. i wonder how different from this the praying she's about to 'get back to' will be

  • Fancyalaugh

    Yes so Christian like…more like hate!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=300901223 Nicolette Beach

    “god is such an awesome god, he's so loving, he will FUCK YOU UP!”

  • Alex Allison

    Evolution will kill these humans off.

  • http://acidloudacid.blogspot.com Piquo

    shit's gone viral

  • Mia Rimpakone

    this is so sad. she is sick. sick sick and blind and NOT saveable, no pun intended.

  • Dmyersresearch

    Why would anyone love a God like this? What did innocent children ever do to “deserve” the horror of this earthquake and tsunami? Frightening woman. Frightening interpretation of God.

  • Josepii

    Wow, this girl clearly has a very uninformed view of religion and the world.

  • http://twitter.com/godworm Nicholas Cox

    Don't worry, there have always been people like this—there just hasn't always been YouTube. If anything makes me feel despair for the future it is not that people like this exist but that we give them our attention.

  • emily

    I love how she calls it the “lentil” season. Pretty sure the word she was looking for is “lenten.” As it is, she's helping me visualize a delicious bowl of soup rather than listen to her insane bullshit.

  • Jc

    this girl is a fucking asshole

  • http://twitter.com/azigra Azi

    God bless atheists.

  • shoehand

    she's got a carby face

  • Kablaamee

    To help things along, remove safety labels.

  • itsguccitime

    She sounds like Bellatrix Lestrange fawning over Lord Voldemort.

  • nico

    How foolish to think atheists are oblivious to the “Christian movement” and their deity by praying for them to have their “eyes opened” when in actuality, we're all quite familiar with both, and if Christians ought to pray for anything in hopes of swaying the atheist's mindset, they should pray for our eyes to be closed to their followers, like this moron, as their ignorance, stupidity and bigotry are the greatest deterrents from Christianity. Who wants to be part of a faith that supports the absence of logic and knowledge? Ew.

  • statusandapager

    welp

  • Discordian

    I have to say, the girl on the video is the most epic troll I have ever seen… you can't really think this is serious? It is so obviously over-the-top, it is clearly satire and/or trolling.

  • Joelle Held

    Dear God, save me from your followers.

  • Brandon scott gorrell

    i thought that too but look at her other videos, they are all earnest/ batshit attacks on everything athiest

  • Brandon scott gorrell

    atheist*

  • Brocasbrian

    Is this a poe? If not she got hit with the crazy stick.

  • http://twitter.com/TheWitGirl TheWitGirl

    I think the author just matched the crazy woman's extremism by calling God a myth. Just like believers can't prove the existence of a God, disbelievers can't prove that God doesn't exist either. I think it's crazy when atheists go around as if they have the answer.

  • shoehorn

    go google “myth definition” and get back to us on that one

  • http://www.kathygambo.tumblr.com Kathleen Gambarelli

    Wow, you can see the crazy stirring behind those black eyeballs… after 40 nights of this chick praying I think our entire universe will have collapsed. Bat. Shit. In. Sane.

  • http://www.kathygambo.tumblr.com Kathleen Gambarelli

    #hormonalteenagers

  • http://twitter.com/Wes_Barnaby Wesley Barnaby

    Japan has shoulders? Where?

  • Hello Balqies

    You're an idiot. A lot of Christians too died in Japan!

  • Lezlie

    she wants to fuck god so hard.

  • Guest

    This link seems to be a dead giveaway that she's fake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

    I'd consider removing the post bc she really doesn't deserve the attention.

  • Justinolopez

    Please don`t help christians!!!

  • Brandon scott gorrell

    i don't understand how that video is a dead giveaway, it is of the same tone/theme/earnestness of the video in this post as well as her other 40+ videos on her youtube channel

    she is just over the top/ unconscious of other peoples' perceptions/ in her own world. if she were a parodist i feel she would make some internal nod or consistently reference certain lines/ expressions as well has have some link to a website that was very obviously a parody on far-right christianity, and i think there would also be indications of people 'getting' the inside joke that is the parody in the comments secitons of her videos. but looking through ~5 of them there seems to be nothing along those lines, most of the people are just as pissed/ indignant as they are in this comment section

    also if she is fake then it is an extremely well-done (sort of) job in that the large majority of people watching this have probably moved further away from any chance of believing in her god or a myth-like god and if this is indeed the case then the girl does deserve the attention, because that sort of strange success/failure would also be deserving of our interestt

  • http://twitter.com/MissKimball misskimball

    she acts like she's already fucked him

  • faith

    she should do those makeup tutorials instead or some shit

  • Graygirl333

    /world'smostpunchableface

  • Amber

    It is so obvious that she is satire. Now Glenn Beck's comments on Japan…not so much. She gives hints in every video. In this one she says “Lentil season” and also says “oh my god.”

  • http://kumquatparadise.tumblr.com aaron nicholas

    she does a good job of being completely serious and not funny if this is satire, towit, worst satire i've ever seen

  • SisterRay

    “A freaking myth”?? Uh-oh, Thought Catalog, an earthquake/God might, uh….wreck…this website…and the internet…

    Also, there are definitely Christians in Japan. This girl needs to stop living her life like she's a member of the Christian Jewels.

  • Taylor

    You say she is 'satire', but I think what you mean to say is, she is lying about her beliefs to garner attention on the internet, that's if she is not being sincere.

    I may be too simple minded to get the incredibly witty humor and razor sharp satire that she is presenting but it just seems like a weak and uncreative way to get attention.

  • EmiliaBedelia

    “lentil season”

    I am so hungry.

  • http://amandadookie.wordpress.com/ Amanda D

    I really hope so…

  • Guest

    I don't think an internal nod or link of any sort is necessary for a parody. A major point of these “pseudo-characters” is to not be discovered. In fact, it's better to never let anyone into the “know” because then they can keep it going even longer and keep people questioning.

    I just think that that song is a load of shit. No one would sing that song or teach it to children.

    I also feel like her About Me quotes are super contrived. She picked silly, irrational quotes that are intended specifically to illicit a response. Yes, super right-wing and crazy. But together with everything else, it just doesn't add up.

    Also check out:
    http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/P…

  • Jezebel Walkabout

    Saw her address and contact details posted in the comments several times; don't worry guys it seems as though 4chan is onto it.

  • Guest

    Also, while I see your point of her possibly deserving the attention because of the strange success/failure, I more see her as exploiting a very serious, grave situation for her own gain and for personal attention. To me, if she is a parody (which we can't really prove either way), it's more for selfish reasons rather than a larger social commentary/agenda against religious extremists.

    Plus, the dangerous side of this is that most people will not understand it's a parody (again, if we assume this is parody). And given the rate at which this is spreading, this video could be interpreted by the world as a common view, fueling the Ugly American stereotype even more. Sharing it is magnifying her voice.

  • Bobby

    She obviously isn't serious. In another video she asks, “If God doesn't exist, who wrote the Bible?”

  • Guest

    She's definitely not smart enough to create 40+ videos of this supposed “satire” that some people think she's spewing.

  • Bridget

    This has to be a joke.

  • Bridget

    The author would have to go ON and ON for at least several more redundant, obnoxious and deranged paragraphs to match “the crazy woman's extremism.”

  • goldenday

    girl is crazy & gives the rest of us Christians a bad name.
    i'm not sure what God she thinks she's representing, but her words will lead her straight to hell with all the atheists. how awkward that would be, right?

  • Mob

    Little piece of shit doesn't even know how to build an argument. These people are the reason why I don't believe in God. If there was a God, this little twat would be representing it. Sick.

  • Brandon scott gorrell

    i think you underestimate the power/ reach of youtube as well as the spectrum of unabashed/one-sided religious belief in america

  • Conman97

    dont pay attention to people like this.

  • qwordy
  • Guest

    http://www.youtube.com/user/ta…

    Apparently it was a troll.

  • Justine

    As a less fanatical Christian you're just enabling activity like that from those who actually do take the word of the Bible seriously. Nice to know you think we'll burn in hell as atheists.

  • a. survivor

    I don't think she's a troll at all, I think she's 100% serious. It may be hard to believe anyone is this hateful, but I've been researching & videotaping extreme anti-abortion activists for many years and have heard a lot of this sort of talk from them. She unsubscribed from youtube because people were calling her and telling her off, not because she was a troll.

  • http://twitter.com/straponheart Evan Hatch

    To entirely crib from somebody funnier than me, if God's sending a message with all of this, it's “I don't exist, guys.”

  • http://goldenday.tumblr.com Kia Etienne

    its obvious to see that you did not get my reference to her video. nice to know you're an idiot.

  • Flazereon

    christians love to insult.fuck em

  • Firefighter

    i hope the japanese will bomb this girl's house

  • Guest
  • Malahkaihalan

    God does exist and not all christians are speaking this way please do not put all christians in a box speaking for myself Ibelieve God is a very loving god

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