Prayer

[Cyberman]

Both are perfectly justifiable reasons to feel irritated. Imho.

Here's another example. I know you don't have to take my testimony at face value, but it is what it is.

I've spoken enough - far too much, actually - of the trouble that Shell and I have been having with a guy who believes himself to be xtian (when it suits him, anyway). He is truly unbalanced, manipulative, domineering, and a really detestable piece of work. A couple of months ago, she was in his car, despite all my exhortations against having anything to do with him, and she rang me up so I could hear him kicking off at her. What I heard on that call chilled me to the core and will never leave me.

He was quite literally deranged. He was screaming and babbling about Shell being possessed of an unclean spirit and kept ordering it to leave her body. He was shouting to his lord to come down and save her and him, I mean literally screaming it out like some drugged-up televangelist. When she tried to say anything, he shouted at her viciously - she told me right in her face - to shut up and stop disrespecting his praying. He started spouting random gibberish, which is supposed to be speaking in tongues. I couldn't see him, thank fuck, but I imagined and Shell later confirmed that he was shaking, sweating, blood vessels bulging, eyes popping, drooling, basically he'd lost it. It was the closest I've ever been to true insanity. I kept telling Shell to get the fuck out of that car and to a place with other people. This is a guy, you may remember, who once tried to push her out of a moving vehilce into oncoming traffic. Who knows what the fuck he was going to do in this utterly deranged state?

Thankfully, he calmed down enough to give her chance to get out of there and escape. But she still has nightmares about him coming into her home and doing it again.

I truly wish I was making this up.