"Actively praying for the destruction of most worldly people"
I don't remember that hairy. I suppose you could say that they prayed for God's Will to be done, not knowing what that Will really was, other than the destruction of "wicked mankind". The definition of "wicked mankind" is still an area they have difficulty coming up with.
4 generations deep here, and none in my family had the hope for any to be destroyed.
The ones that did look at things the way you describe, were thought of as "limited" in intelligence.