No the point is that this was a premeditated arson that some morons blamed on harmless psychedelic drugs. I know you have heard someone say "a few idiots ruined it for everyone" when referring to something harmless and fun, right? These are those idiots, and I thought the world ought to know.
See what I can do about getting an interview. Thanks for the constructive criticism.
I 100% agree with you that some retard kids blame the event on a drug...and how wrong that is....But I aint sure that the article was really specific in showing that. i didnt get the idea that "these kids had a premediated arson and blamed it on a drug" as the main point...that seemed kind of like a afterthought added in, there wasnt alot of emphasis placed on it. So i guess it was good in the way it didnt sensationalize the shit but it also was kind of bland on the "draw the reader in" tip. And my bad, i didnt realize u are the author of this (that was the idea i got from your comments, right?) thats cool that you posted a piece u did in here.
Im sorry for bein harsh but its the way I am and i just say the shit on my mind without really editin myself, but the good side of that is you will get a real point of view from me and not one that is sugar coated or tryin to be nice, etc, so whether or not i might always be the nicest , i always do keep it 100.
and i think part of the reason that i was criticizing it is becuz for a little while i worked at a newspaper and was friends with the editor, so i got some idea of wat makes a good story, u know? he taught me alot about writing for newspapers and the kind of shit that wil make a person want to keep reading so i guess i notice the quality of the article and not just wat its about, more than other ppl might sometimes.
Like i said...Hope u aint take personal offense to the shit i said. but at least u got a real reaction to the article and im glad you didnt take it as a personal thing and get all upset , but instead did appreciate that even tho i mighta said it in not the most pleasant way, i did try to put somethin constructive in there suggesting other things that coulda improved it. I do think that a interview would really add alot to the story and could make it very interesting for the readers, and you could also use that to stress the point of how this was a pre mediated crime and it could show just how dumb the kid is, if you ask the right kind of questions and frame the story the right way, you can make it be about how drugs aint to blame, but let the kid do all the work for you. You can still be the unbiased reporter just writin it how it is, but let the kid do the talking and in your responses and the way you write about it you can make the point, without it seeming like you are biased towards drugs not bein at fault, you feel me?
I got alot of respect for the fact that you didnt get all hurt and mad from my post and was able to see the positive in it, so good looks on that and if you did do a follow up article def. post it here.
Anyways...orangescrewpen..Seriously? God damn....i aint sure if you realize just how ignorant sayin shit like that makes u sound....why take away a in animate building that is the home of many programs that help people in the community, that brings joy and happiness to so many folks in the area...its just the building...if you got a problem with the religion, burnin the building that people who believe in it go to, aint really a great way to make the point that you are against intolerance. 8(
And for real...so many churches AINT the way that alot of yall on here make them out to be...there is alot of churches that aint all stuck up, uptight, super strict, anti-sex and drugs, you gonna go to hell if you fart, type of places. there is so many churches these days that is open minded, that accept and completely tolerate homosexuality, that even allow openly gay priests....that dont turn away drug addicts who come lookin for help...who do all kind of community service for people nearby like food pantry, offering shelter to people who need it, they do out reach programs to the folks who is down and out physicaly spiritually or emotionally, who protest the death penalty, who help people who is low income find legal aid to help them in court cases, who help people who cant afford their medical bills get care, and so much more. A church dont necessarily have to be a symbol of some kind of oppressive, evil, intolerant, bigoted, shame and guilt causing type of group. Not all religion, even not all christians are like that. these days there is alot more to it, and there is so many people who might call themself christian in a real general way, that dont believe nothing like the super strict kind of fundamentalist "god will send the fags to hell" type of shit that we all are against.
I understand why anybody would hate a group or idea that caused them to feel shame of their entire self....that makes them think their body is dirty, that sex is dirty, that doing drugs will send them to hell, that questioning things and thinkin for yourself wont lead to nothin but evil, that makes them feel like they are restricted and stuck and all kind of shit. i understand the kind of mental sufferin that a super strict religious raising could bring to a person. It aint that i am saying that plenty of people been pretty much scarred for life by a extremely serious , strict ultra-conservative religious family life growin up.
but you got to realize that christianity as a whole thing, dont mean all that stuff. There is so much negativity but there is also so much more than that. and dismissin the whole thing, is just as bad as the strict fundementalist ones dismissing anybody who dont go to church every sunday, or who listens to any music that aint church hymns, as a devil worshipper.
Burning a chruch aint saying a big fuck you to the evil oppression of extreme ultraconservative religious christian up bringing. all its doing is hurting a community that is most likely made up of people who aint all like that, and takin away a resource tha thelps many of the people who need help and cant get it from nowhere else.
Is making a really shitty, misguided point about religion being bad, worth local families goin with less food on their table cuz the church food pantry burned along with it? is making a statement that anything that is a symbol of the evils that SOME christians have done deserves to be destroyed, worth puttin the local battered mom and the junkie who just got kicked out of his house by his folks out on the street cuz they was staying in the cfhurch basement and now thats gone too?
for real, if you want to make a point there is way better ways to do it. pickin some random ass church that may or may not even BE a community of the super religions christian freaks that yall hate so much, and could have been just a tolerant, loving community of folks who ARE actual "true christians" in the good sense of the word (helping others, practicing forgiveness and loving their neighbor, etc) , and then saying its good that its burned down now, is a horrible way of saying that you believe that some christians are evil and do bad things with their religion.
i think that there is alot of posters on here who grew up in extreme religious house holds and got a deep , understandable bias towards it....that see all the bad, but none of the good....I aint sayin that in the name of religion, and christianity expecialy, there has just been some terrible, shitty, horrible and awful shit done again and again. And I aint no christian, neither so dont think i am apologizin for it or somethin. But im just sayin yo...The hatred that so many of yall clearly got for that religion, is a lil too close to the hate showed by the ones you hate.....
and i understand religion has been a medium of artistic expression etc, and there's plenty of positives. but if it continues, its negatives will continue. we can admire it as a part of our history if we get past the "social opium addiction"
