I rebuke you!
Is it wrong of me to be extremely amused and yet saddened by the psycho-Christian Marguerite Perrin on Trading Spouses? First of all, if she applied to be on the show, she must have had some sort of clue about what the deal was, taking two very different mothers and swapping them for a few days. Granted, being from the Bible-belt, she probably doesn’t have any experience with any other religion other than her particular flavor of monotheism. However, the sheer insanity and downright ignorance of the woman amazed me. I can understand not believing in the same things that her host-family believes in, however, she displayed an ever-increasing amount of intolerance as the two episodes went on, climaxing with her “I’m a God-warrior!” fit when she returned home. The host family went out of their way to make her comfortable, saying grace, going to church, listening to her religious lectures on how they were all in dire need of being saved, and yet wouldn’t even listen to a single thing that the family tried to tell her about their own beliefs.
And then she had the nerve to tell the other mother that she was forced to do all this evil stuff because the husband was pushing all her buttons and getting her angrier and angrier until they all went to the church. I love how this particular breed of Christian (the psycho “save as many of the heathens as possible!” Bible-thumping fundies) can bend anything to suit their needs at that particular time. A guy asks how something that her God created could be evil, and suddenly he’s going hand in hand with the devil. When her eldest daughter gets knocked up at 14 (or however old she was) and nevermind that the daughter is having premarital sex and the kid is a fatherless bastard, we’re opening a dance studio.
Most amusing? Her cries of “They had a big star!” Egads, woman, the sun is a big star, is she afraid of that as well? Well that, and the shredding of the $50,000 check/letter, only to accept it after careful consideration.
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November 10th, 2005 at 8:52 am
Like a car crash, I couldn’t look away no matter how repulsed I was. I felt so sorry for Marguerite’s kids and granddaughter. Oh man, and do I ever feel sorry for the people of that town in Louisiana where she lives. Not the best ambassador for them or for Christians in general, eh?
November 10th, 2005 at 1:05 pm
Car crash definitely describes it - I can’t stand most reality TV other than Survivor, and even I tuned into those two episodes. Someone elsewhere brought up a good point as well - Marguerite’s friends who came over for lunch weren’t much different than her, shunning the New Agey mother for the day and not including her in anything.
I’d like to be able to just keep telling myself that it’s just that group, and that the entire south isn’t like that, and not all Christians are like that, but when that’s all you ever see to form your opinions on, what are we supposed to think? Behind every stereotype is a bunch of folks who fit it, no matter how horrible and degrading it may be.
November 15th, 2005 at 10:15 pm
It is sad to say, but most of the south is like that. I live in Arkansas and most of the small towns are full of people just like Marguerite Perrin. I have started a group about her on Myspace. Feel free to join.
http://groups.myspace.com/margueriteperrin
November 16th, 2005 at 11:29 pm
What’s even sadder is all the people talking about this crazy bitch. myself included. LOL
November 17th, 2005 at 10:42 pm
What upset me was how her children were. They were scared of her and when they tried defending their actions, Ashley saying how she had prayed her mother, Margie bit her head off.
It’s women like that which are an embarrassment to the Christian religion.
December 2nd, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Yea I am a Christian…but you hit the nail on the head when you said she is one of those save as many heathens as possible. I laughed and held my head down all at the same time. She is a tad bit extreme. And I feel sorry for doing that to her family on national television now it will take years to live that down.
December 10th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
It is NEVER wrong to be amused by this sort of stuff. I had a post that referenced her today … I hit the technorati tag to see if anyone else had a “god warrior” tag and this post came up. Remember … when you saw her, you looked squarely in the face of Bush’s base. Be VERY afraid …