My mother suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. The paranoid part caused her to demonize certain individuals. It would sometimes come out of the blue. For instance, one morning she suddenly accused the woman who lived across the street of plotting to kill us. Of course it made no sense. The reasons why she believed this were not based in reality. But it was useless to argue with her. In her mind, she knew the truth. It’s like that with Christianists such as Perkins, LaBarbera, Brown, Fischer… We are “the other” to them, the evil stranger who has come to destroy their world. You can’t reason with them because they’re crazy. They don’t have a mental illness that clouds their thought processes, but they’re crazy nonetheless. They choose to be crazy. They choose to live in a fantasy world where they are the unappreciated heroes down for the count, and we are the villains. They imagine they will vanquish us at the last minute and win the praise of all the world. Reality just can’t compete with that.