Christian Woman Goes Viral Over Her Magic Jesus Hairspray

Christian Woman Goes Viral Over Her Magic Jesus Hairspray

Watching this video was intense

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A woman went viral on TikTok recently because she claimed her hairspray had been blessed by Jesus. She declared (without evidence, she didn’t open the can to check) that her hairspray was empty, but that God was supernaturally filling it back up endlessly, so her daughters and her could crimp and curl their hair.

She said that she told her friend about this “miracle” and that her friend insisted that she record herself curling the last bit of her hair on camera, so she could share what was happening with the internet.

Even though there’s every reason to believe she is mistaken. I’ve had lotion bottles and suntan lotion that seemed like they were empty, but that I was able to get a little more out of many times. Not because of Jesus, I don’t even believe in god, but because it’s difficult to actually see in canisters and know when they are truly empty.

But despite this, she gets so excited screaming about the hairspray that not only is she praising Jesus repeatedly in the video, but she starts quoting Bible verses as well.

I find the video very sad to watch.

It has four million views as of the time of this writing, but she turned off people’s ability to embed the video in articles or comment on it because so many people had negative reactions to it, instead of praising God like she wanted them to.

So if you want to see the original video, you will have to click here. I highly recommend watching the whole thing.

But I’m including this woman reacting to a short clip of it in case you can’t do that, so you can see at least a little bit of it.

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The reason I find the video so sad is because the woman has to explain, in order to justify why this “miracle” is a good thing, that her husband has died and she’s too disabled to drive, so she is unable to go to the store and get more hairspray when she runs out.

I imagine she’s probably struggling financially as well, which is another factor contributing to her situation.

She was running low when she needed to curl her hair and her daughter needed her hair crimped. And she doesn’t want to tell her daughter that she can’t give her a nice hairstyle, after everything they’ve already been through, I’m sure.

This woman is clearly going through a lot.

She sounds completely hysterical to me and emotional as she’s speaking. She apologizes for “shouting,” which she’s doing because her emotions are heightened.

She’s likely experiencing a high emotionally and thinking this is the Holy Spirit. I’ve been there when I’ve been desperate, too.

There are lots of Christians who make videos like this for attention or because they want to lie or trick people, but she seems to believes what she is saying and it’s sad to watch.

But if everything she is saying is true, then her god is a giant dick.

She’s claiming that her god cares about every little thing that happens in her life. She’s claiming he has unlimited power to help her as well. But instead of him, you know, saving her husband’s life so she wouldn’t have to raise her kids alone or healing her from her disability, so she can better take care of her and her kids, he’s merely just refilling her hair spray so her and her kids can do their hair for one single day.

Which isn’t even much help because as she admits in the video, the curls she already hair sprayed are starting to go straight again, despite the magic hairspray.

This would be fine if the Christian god was believed to be a weak God who can’t save a life, but can full hairspray. But Christians believe their god has infinite power and knowledge.

None of this is praise worthy. It sounds like a god who could do a lot and is doing almost nothing instead.

Yet almost one hundred fifty thousand (probably) Christians have liked the video. Probably because they’re looking for any kind of miracle they can find, too.

This is an example of the predatory nature of Christianity.

Because she’s clearly going through grief and desperate for any help she can get. She’s suffering without her husband, so she is hysterically searching for any tiny miracle that could be occurring from her god, so she doesn’t have to feel the full weight and pain of being both disabled and widowed.

Someone going through life altering events like that feels like they’ve completely lost control of their life and that everything is spinning in a horrible direction. But she’s clinging to the idea that if she can find some small miracle in her life, then she’s not alone and things aren’t out of control. Everything is in her mythical Jesus’ control.

Her video has almost one hundred fifty thousand likes because agenda driven Christians are probably flocking to her video in droves, ready to justify the horrible idea that Jesus would give a woman magic endless hairspray, but wouldn’t help her with her more important needs.

I have not shown my Dad this video, but I already know how he’d justify it if I did. He’d say that his god allows bad things to happen to people like this woman, so he can reveal his true glory by giving her unlimited hairspray. And that the proof is that the video went viral and led to lots of people praising the Christian god because of it.

So is it really such a horrible thing that her husband died and she’s disabled? That’s what my Dad would genuinely ask.

They can find a way to fit it into their favorite Bible verse: “God works all things together for good.”

But isn’t that kind of disgusting? Doesn’t it make their god evil if he refuses to stop bad things from happening to people in order to promote himself and make himself look better? In order to convert people to his religion?

He refuses to perform huge miracles that could actually save humans from a bunch of trauma and instead performs stupid, tiny miracles to save their hairspray?

Why does that kind of god deserve to be praised? She praises him repeatedly, but by her own definition of things, all this is happening because he’s failed her in the most important ways possible.

Because I’m an atheist, I think this is happening because her god is not real, but Christians will claim it’s because the world is fallen from sin.

But is that really an excuse to allow children to lose their father like that? Or to drive a woman to such desperation that she’s literally shouting praises for something so incredibly insignificant?

Because the whole world is sinful, the best he can do is give her a little extra hair spray?

She deserves better than that, but I think she’s so desperate that she’s trying to find peace with disappointment instead.

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