Yes and yes! I have commented quite a bit on r/atheism and there are indeed a lot of assholes among Baptists (and almost every large denomination, really) who help create former theists with similar stories. PKs (Pastor’s Kids) are somewhat stereotyped even in church communities as being especially awful when they have an opportunity to power trip. This sort of verbal warfare wasn’t uncommon in the Asian American churches I’ve been to, since parents go a little insane trying to keep up their cutthroat competition of sending the most emotionally stunted child to the Ivy League and make a billion dollars when the pastor keeps telling them to live humbly and frugally (while also sending his own kids to college out-of-pocket).

The most bizarre outcome of this whole experience is that the rest of my immediate family is still staunchly Christian. They can’t conceive the idea of blaming God for having so many awful followers, or the real dreadful thought that no gods have ever been around to reply to their prayers at all.