United States women’s soccer team great Megan Rapinoe said on Tuesday that Christians are “not OK” while defending a joke about God that she made after her last game.
Rapinoe, a two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup winner, made the comment on the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast while addressing the injury she suffered in her final game.
“I’m like a controversial figure and having people, low-key, like, celebrate it, but then also, like, be, like, so disingenuous about it that that part is kind of funny too,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Wow, you guys are in a special place in hell that you’re celebrating this.’”
Rapinoe left the field minutes into her final professional game with the OL Reign at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium on Nov. 11.
After the game, she infuriated Christians by saying that suffering an injury in her final game was proof that God does not exist.
“I’m not a religious person or anything, and if there was a God, this is proof that there isn’t, ’cause this is f***ed up,” Rapinoe said after the game.
Rapinoe declared Tuesday that the comment was a joke and seemed to insult anyone who took offense.
“Somebody needs to check on the Christians,” she said. “They’re not OK.”
“They also missed the whole joke. Don’t act like you’re surprised by me being, like, making this joke about what happened or finding a dig.”
Rapinoe questioned who the “dig” would be directed at.
“God? Myself? Religion? The world?” she asked.
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“I don’t think people appreciate this, ’cause everyone was deeply triggered, religiously and otherwise,” Torre said. “The dig is, here is yet another athlete who thinks that proof of God is found in them winning, in good s*** happening, and if it doesn’t, then obviously God does not exist.”
“Exactly,” Rapinoe said. “That’s the joke.”