[stayathomemom]

...the grimness level varies.

I think that is called a litotes.

[HiTech RedNeck]

or a sometimes-understatement.

I’ve seen “Christian” cases go way off the deep end. For something we’d all agree on: How in the world did we ever get such a thing as a KKK with its cross burning that never brought the actual light of the cross into the world, but as it were, tried to burn it in hell?