This is Marguerite Perrin. 

In case you haven't seen her yet, she recently took part in a Fox TV show called 'Trading Spouses'.   The premise of this show is that 2 women who have never met before trade families with each other for a week.  To be honest, it hasn't really caught my attention....until Marguerite came along, that is.

Marguerite is a bit of a radical when it comes to her religion.  She's very into her god, is Marguerite.  Believes that the devil is out to get her and that she's a "warrior of god", ready to do battle with the "dark-side".

Funnily enough, the family that she got traded with aren't christians.  They're pagans.  The wife is a hypnotherapist, the husband is an astrologer.  They're very nice people - a little 'new age-y' perhaps, but genuinely nice folks.

During the show it was obvious that Marguerite wasn't comfortable in the other family's home.  She even tossed her cookies once, blaming her nausea on the garbage smelling.  Everyone else thought that the garbage smelled just fine (as far as garbage smelling fine can be, that is) - I think that marguerite was askeered becuase she was in the presence of what she thought were the spawn of satan.

Her reaction to her family after she got back to her own home reinforced that belief.

She had a fit.  Now, when I say 'fit' I don't mean a few angry words and slammed doors, I mean a full on, screaming, yelling tantrum.

She growled.  She screeched.  She screamed that everything in the house had been "dark-sided", that it was all tainted by the presence of a woman who was a pagan.  "she wasn't a CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Marguerite literally shrieked as her family stood around, stunned into silence.

"PSYCHICS AND GAR-GILLS!!!!  EVERYTHINGS BEEN TAINTED!!!!!! IT'S BEEN DARK-SIDED!!!!" she bansheed as she ripped up an envelope. (just a thought- is is possible for something to be 'dark-sided'?  The phrase reminds me of people who describe their animals as having been 'spaded'.  "Kittyt got spaded yesterday"...."my toilet was dark-sided this morning"....?)

This woman came across as deranged.  She really scared me.  It wasn't just the yelling, it was the expression of sheer hatred on her face that frightened me. 

Marguerite Perrin isn't a "warrior of god". She might think that she is, but she's not.  She's doing what so many fanatically religious people do - she's using her religion to justify her actions and to accuse anyone who doesn't think the same way she does as doing the work of the devil.  She's not demonstrating Christian values when she's screaming about godlessness, she's deomonstrating hatred and contempt.  Last time I checked, Christ told us we were supposed to be tolerant and compassionate.  Apparently Marguerite's bible doesn't read like mine does, because I saw ZERO tolerance coming from her.  The supposedly 'satanic' pagan family that she was traded with would have made better Christians than Marguerite EVER will, because they were tolerant and respectful of her beliefs and philosophies.  How ironic.....if she had taken the time to see past the 'pagan' label she had stuck on them, she might have actually seen that their philosophies had a lot in common with hers. 

I saw no tolerance, no compassion, no love.  Just sheer hatred, and to be honest, fear.  She was terrified of those people and their way of life.  She didn't even want to hear about their way of life - they didn't think like her, and that's all she needed to know.  To have gone any further would, have her, been dabbling with the devil. 

I have Marguerite's phone number.  I found it on a message board discussing wether or not she's psychotic and in dire need of some mental health assistance and treatment.  Someone who had grown up in a house with a mother much like Marguerite (Carrie, perhaps?) and who was so traumatized by the experience that they needed therapy as an adult took it upon themselves to go 411 her name and post her telephone number for everyone to see.  I doubted that said numbers were still in service, so I called her business...,and sure enough, it was her.  She hasn't felt the need to change her numbers...then again, perhaps nobody has called her.  Perhaps they're all too scared of her....perhaps seeing her on TV had such a detrimental effect on them that they don't think they can handle her in any greater proximity.

I don't blame them at all.  She's crazy - crazy, masquerading as uber-religious.

(you can see the video here: http://www.fox.com/tradingspouses/  - but be warned, it's pretty disturbing)