Amanda Grace said that mermaids and water people are coming after us. That they are a part of the kingdom of darkness and are technologically advanced.

I’m not about to repost the preposterous fever dreams spouted by the prophetess taking stage at Trump’s Doral property. Doral? Wait.

Isn’t that a cigarette brand?

It’s in Miami. You know, one of the cities doomed to join Atlantis at the bottom of the sea because, Republicans?

Except, wait.

Mermaids ain’t real. If they were, God would have told me. I’m his favorite, you see.

Atlantis, of course, is an ancient place of fiction created to prove a point by Greek philosopher Play-Doh. No shit.

And “water people”, I have no idea of. What the hell is she even talking about?

Because I take it that she’s not referring to fishers or gloucestermen, or SCUBA divers. Maybe Olympic swimmers? But then, what technology do they possess that’s superior? Are they not humans, using humanity’s tech?

Maybe she means this:

Lady, that’s from a fuckin movie! It’s not real!

Or perhaps she’s talking about the famous statue in Denmark. Yeah, lady, that’s a statue. It’s not real, either.

But wait! You said “images”, didn’t you? Can it be that you think images are demons, with high tech weaponry, that are going to come alive and fight us? Is that really what you said?

Yeah. You did say that. But then you said that mermaids and “water people” are demons. You added that we need to know “the rules of engagement” and that we are meant for hand-to-hand combat. You should know that the “Terms of Engagement” refers to a particularly awful American television series. And that fighting spiritual entities with your hands is not possible, and even if it were possible, we would lose.

And that you are the last person anyone should be tempted to follow into battle.

And what the hell is wrong with your nose? I think you should buy ten cases of Afrin, and that might unblock it.

I think, though, that the more likely reason you talk funny is because someone once took offense to your false teachings, condescension and feverish views on the future. And they just reared back and broke your nose with a brick.

I think too, “Amazing Grace”, that what you need more than any nose spray is some thorazine, an anti-psychotic and a couple of ‘shrooms. That, or an exorcism. I don’t know which.

I also really don’t care.

Because you use the threat of divine punishment against anyone and everyone who you believe is evil. And Grace: guess what? We are all evil. There is, inherent in our DNA, the capacity to act for good and evil both. And that is exactly what we do. The snag is, which one we choose most of the time.

For whatever it’s worth, I believe I could have ended up a serial killer. All the ingredients were there: parents who abused, raped, tortured and humiliated me. I was bullied. Sensitive, which kids sense and use against you. I saw things done to animals. I saw siblings abused. I had everything. Anger, hate that had to be suppressed, I was socially dysfunctional, always made fun of even when not getting my ass kicked. I lashed out only rarely, though, and always I hated myself for it. Usually it took the form of vandalism, but serious though that was, the high from it was fleeting.

What kept me from going further was that I did not want to hurt others. It just wasn’t what I was inside. Otherwise, let’s say I could have done serious harm to lots of people and loved every minute of it.

I became adequate with speech and writing, and I could easily have turned a phrase better than you. I could have taught. I could have helped. But things didn’t work out like that for me. All my life, I was a nobody, a zero. Until I had children.

And outlived them. Now I’m a zero again. Old. Crippled. Tired, worn out, in unending pain inside and out.

There is nothing to be gained when I warn others that we really are in trouble. We’ve turned this blue marble into a toxic waste dump. We’ve filled the skies with poison, the seas with sewage and oil and plastic, and the ground with everything We’ve ever done.

I realize that by endorsing Trump, you don’t care much about that. You care nothing for women’s rights. Nothing for civil rights. Nothing for the truth. And it’s certain that you have no regard for yourself.

I don’t know what made you this kind of fanatical liar, but there’s one thing I do know:

Shut the fuck up.

Do it before you have no more time to repent.

Just stop.

The problem with people like Ms. Grace is that they ignore the truth and they disregard the doctrine of real Christianity in exchange for lies and honor, but they alone are not the only casualties. Show me a lying person spouting chickenshit in the name of God and I’ll show you misguided people who believe their every word.

That’s worse than killing them. Betraying God and others in order to scare people into giving you money (which is really why they do it) and power is called “apostasy”, something predicted in end times prophecy.

It’s real, always was, and is getting worse. Grace makes truly faithful Christians look bad. True Christians sin and make mistakes, but they’re not likely to stand in front of cameras and tell outlandish lies. They’re not likely to preach to you unsolicited. Not likely to lead others down a false path.

If Amanda Grace is not psychotic, then she’s a liar. But I don’t know what she is.

Besides dressing up in fairy tale garb and spouting lies, I have to wonder what she does for fun.

I’d bet you she watches mermaid movies. If I had any, I’d bet money on it.

I hope to God she doesn’t have any children.