NO. Charlie Charlie IS NOT REAL.

Mock and I jokingly "did" the Charlie Charlie challenge on the air the day before yesterday to show that the Charlie Charlie challenge is, well, a RIDICULOUS JOKE, and when it comes down to brass tacks, saying the words "Charlie Charlie" with two pencils in front of you means absolutely no more than talking to your friend named Charlie and saying his name twice with two pencils in your hands on a sunny day in June.  (Or pick some other random combination of activities. Because this is how ridiculous this stupid game is.)  

I'm not sure if people didn't read the actual website post and listen to the actual audio (that happens all the time on our Facebook page), or if they did and they just didn't want to hear the actual point of the audio (also happens a lot), but regardless, they were really upset with us.  So upset that they left our page all dramatic-like and said they weren't coming back (also happens a lot, too…especially the dramatic-exit thing).  

My favorite were the folks who basically told me that my kids were going to be cursed now by Satan himself because I said the name "Charlie" during a radio segment and poked fun at the fact that two pencils sat on a piece of paper and nothing happened.  They're still convinced that really horrible things did happen (thanks a bunch, loyal readers…all the best to your children, toooooo!). Satan works silently, they insisted.  But by that logic, then couldn't Satan have done bad things without the pencils and our blatant ridicule of said pencils and sheep-like response over a made-up game? Don't you think Satan could have infiltrated my home while my kid was saying her prayers every night before bed when she least expected it? 

I digress.

Some other chick named Tabatha said on our Facebook page,

"So you finally admitted you're Satanists."

Now, I've been called a lot of things in six years – stuff that I can't re-type here – but this was a first.  Someone actually called me a Satanist yesterday – a conservative did that – because I put two pencils on a piece of paper and had the audacity to have an opinion and try to point out that people are dumber than boxes of rocks to believe that pencils and non-existent Mexican demons are working together to move said pencils and somehow do Satan's work.

No.  I don't believe that.  I believe that there are so many other things in this world right now that are doing Satan's work.  

So. Many. Other. Things.  

And it isn't a stupid Charlie Charlie Kylie Jenner lip challenge.  There's nothing in this game but a whole pile of gullible kids wanting a thrill and people wanting to get a 6-seconds-of-fame video out on Vine.  

But listen – my/our perspective of demons as Chicks may differ from the average person, and perhaps that makes me/us more belligerent when it comes to them.  Mock and I get a lot more hate mail than the average Jane, we get a lot more hate directed towards us in general, a lot more threats to us and our families on a daily basis.  We are in the position of fighting battles every single day – with liberals, conservatives, libertarians, undecideds, men, women, old people, young people, and everyone in between.  We are bombarded with what I believe are demons every day of our lives, in the form of human beings walking around this earth.  Our shields are constantly up.  You know, Ephesians 6.11 and whatnot.  (Not bad for a couple of dirty "Satanists," eh Tabatha?)

Bottom line – Charlie Charlie isn't a Mexican, he's not a demon, he doesn't exist, he never did (look it up), he never will, and the challenge is nothing more to me than an experiment in sociology to show that people will stop at nothing to try to freak themselves out and try to freak other people in the process.  Kids did it when I was a kid with the Ouija board and with that Bloody Mary game.  I thought it was stupid then and I made fun of it then.  Now, they're using a thing invented a super long time ago and combining it with something new….you ready for this?

Gravity and social media.

We Chicks made fun of it, because I have had teenagers in my home, y'all.  And the smart ones who have been raised right will respond better to ridiculing a stupid challenge than they will being told that they're going to hell over it.  They respond to you saying, "This is the dumbest thing ever" more so than to you saying, "THE DEVIL IS GOING TO GET YOU IF YOU PUT TWO PENCILS TOGETHER OMG." For crying out loud, adults, stop scaring these kids and tell them the truth.  This is the dumbest game ever, and they need to know that it's ridiculous because it's based on GRAVITY AND THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AND THE STUPIDITY OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

What is real are the demons we see walking around every day.  What is real are demons cutting Christians heads off for being Christian.  What's real are the demons WITHIN US, and the crap that flies out of people's mouths like, "You're a Satanist," when you don't even know who I am, lady.  You don't know jack squat about me. Or my kids.  And I swear, y'all, this is precisely why kids AREN'T flocking to churches these days and why they're instead flocking to the Kardashians and they're doing stupid stuff like the Charlie Charlie challenge.  It's because of chicks like Tabatha.  

But that's a whole other post for a whole other day.  

I'm going to continue to make fun of the stupidity and the gullibility of the sheeple who participate in this challenge, because that is what they are.  Sheep.  And I'm also going to put on my armor every day – to protect me and my family from the real demons in this world.  Because they're not in a flipping game invented by some random teenager on the Internet.  

Here's the follow-up to yesterday, in case you're still with me (3/4 of you read the first paragraph and flipped right back to Facebook to call me a hussy-Satanist, I know….but it's cool….because I got my armor on. ;-)).