IT'S WHAT YOU DO TO HUGE DEMONS WHO HAVE HUGE GUTS RIP AND TEAR

tear and rip are used interchangeably. tear is often used for fabric, and rip is often used for paper (ripping the pages out of something). actually, come to think of it, so is tear. you can say either. but i cannot think of any cases where you should use one or the other - you can choose either. there are other, more specific uses of these words that may require using one - this is by convention. for example, "to rip a CD" is sort of slang for making a digital copy of a CD. but in the root sense, if you ask a native speaker to tell you the meaning of "rip" the first word they will say is "to tear", and if you ask them the meaning of "tear" the first thing they will say is "to rip" :) (remember that there is another word also spelled "tear" but pronounced "teer" - a homonym).

Rip Means 1.Tear or be torn violently "The curtain ripped from top to bottom" 2.Move precipitously or violently "The tornado ripped along the coast" 3.Criticize or abuse strongly and violently "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly" While Tear means 1.Separate or cause to separate abruptly "tear the paper" 2.To separate or be separated by force 3.Move quickly and violently "The car tore down the street" cowboy...

please don't rip me a new one... :P

They are both correct and neither of them sound weird in a sentence.