Creature

CREATURE
John watched the terrible alien creature emerge from the cocoon.  It was stranger than anything he had ever seen on Earth.  With an exoskeleton that was impervious to all weapons the creature was as malignant as hideous, and destruction followed its course.  Acid sprayed from  razor sharp mandibles and dissolved flesh and steel alike.  From orifices at the ends of its tentacles oozed a toxic gas.
Experts from all over the world exclaimed that this creature defied all the laws of science.  Churches became full as preachers struggled to explain this hellish abomination which gave new meaning to the Apocalypse. 
Radio and  TV  newscasters squirmed with a schizophrenic ambivalence: they were elated at the biggest story of their life and dejected by the realization that it might be their last story.

There is nothing that can stop this creature from destroying all life on earth was the hourly mantra. "This creature gets stronger and more powerful with  with each day."
  
John suddenly sat up. "It is a creature," he said aloud.  "It is only a creature, just another creature which depends on the benevolence of God for its existence.
"Because it is a creature it must eventually come to an end, and like all other creatures its knee must bend before Almighty God."  With that realization John  rose from his seat and left the movie theater. 
He went home and fervently prayed that the people of the United States would survive the policies of the new president.