I'm the fellow that did the deed. Here are some of my views.
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Meh, it's already been done...
Why did you even bother to post such an innane poo poo? Does it give you some sort of satisfaction to know that your apathetic lack of opinion has been scanned by an equally apathetic audience? I didn't do this in order to look like an avant-garde artist, what does it matter if the activity is original or not? You are an imbecile and a Metal Moderate, like this guy:
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This fucking sucks. It's true, facts like these just make our "reputation" worse; living here, under the banner of the almighty Josephus, I wouldn't be surprised to see a kind of anti-Metal inquisition start someday.
Whinge, whinge whinge, that's all you people do. A guy burns down a church and first idea that you draw from the event revolves around the perception of metal in greater society. Why do you care about what the world thinks of metal? Our music revolves around anti-societal themes, if you have no anti-societal views then what could you possibly draw from this genre of music? Let me guess, it's some abstract aesthetic aspect of metal that draws you into it; you like the fast drums or the intricate guitar work, or maybe you like the idea of being a part of a mob of people who give off the impression that they have some fucking idea of what your supposed to be doing with your life. Perhaps you're in denial about your own anti-social leanings? I mean after all, metal isn't the only genre of music with fast drums and intricate guitars.
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Another stupid Slipknot kid.... I hope they all die...
Es macht Spaß, Sündenböcke zu haben.
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I hate having this argument, so I'll keep it simple. Sure, there are some people that follow religion for the wrong reason. Many people. But don't assume that you know the mindset of every single religious person. I'm really sick of this whole "religion is a product of fear" thing. It's fucking immature and arrogant to assume that you're more intelligent than everyone whose religious and that they're all tools.
Of course it's arrogant, that's the whole idea. Humans along with every other category of animal are self obsessed, everyone works towards their own ends in life, under the current system of government, this is undeniable. Some people have enough sense to realize this and to cast away the shackles of delusion that they are born into, while others function via a cloudier mindset.
I suppose you are hoping that the people who read your reply are going to be too daft to percieve that through moralizing my actions and implying that I'm wrong to believe in the superiority both my opinions and the faculties which brought my opinions into existence you are implying your own greater intelligence and your own righteousness. You should be ordained for the clergy, with your high horsery you'd fit in like puzzle piece.
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While i don't approve destroying others property, i actually think the dude had a point, saying that faith lies within the individual. But then again, if you know that torching a church doesn't accomplish anything, why do it?
As an element of propaganda, it accomplishes much. It inspires thought and it inspires emotion, it does everything that a good piece of informative advertising ought to. As i've stated innumerable times before; the act is a symbol, a metaphor. Nowhere did I claim that burning the church was a solution, I've always maintained it to be an expression.
The Christian is the archetypal life denier, his conceptions of 'faith', which imply that an individual should abstract himself from his own affairs and place an absolute trust in providence are analogous of the state of the larger amount of western world inhabitants. Granted, our society is, to a large extent, founded on relatively lucid and sober ideas, but it is glaringly obvious that these ideas haven't penetrated the minds of the greater mass.
The status quo of the western world is such that the peoples who inhabit it can only live by exploiting or enduring exploitation (by rationalizing it through something mystical.. like Christianity). It is only through spitting in the face of religion that we can incarnate a point of perspective which shows us the cruel realities of existence in perfect clarity, and it is only after we accept these realities that we can construct something truly, tangibly, great.