| Subject: Manson and the New Age |
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Date Posted: 23:07:27 11/25/04 Thu
as a person who is consistently floored by marilyn manson's ideas and interviews, i am in awe of the sheer ignorance that people, christian or not, have about the man. it seems so easy to lambast him as a satanist and dog him for the ruin of america's children.
first, he is only loosely tied with the church of satan. the title of "reverand" was bestowed upon him years and years ago.
what manson represents to me is a collection of adolescent social indignation; every scream he screams, a boy or girl has screamed.
the role of adolescent ambassador has been taken up by many people through the years:
kurt cobain
joni mitchell
cat stevens
ozzy osbourne
if it werent for people like them, artists that centerpiece a dissatisfaction with conventional society, so so so many of us would've suicided ourselves away.
they have chosen to step up and make a stand against the infinite injustices that we see, that we live.
to many disenfrancised kids, marilyn manson is more christ than christ himself.
he came through for them when jesus never did.
he never sold them out
he never belittled their fears
he never demeaned their ego
he never struck them across the mouth with a belt
he never tried to alter them to be someone they're not.
he gave them the strength to raise the fist
and strike back those who have hounded them for so long.
he gave them a record to slam-dance their frustrations away.
marilyn manson helped me through high school.
if it wasnt for him, i would've exploded a thousand times over.
he was my therapist for years, helping to undo all the self-hatred that i accumulated over the years from catholicism/protestantism.
god, such self-disgust that ravaged me bodily when i was christian, and here you people are trying to sell me what i now understand and explicitly see as what's truly ugly.
how can you push god as the answer when it is because of his "holy word" that i was taught to hate the most defenseless person: me.
god fucked me over over a period of six years.
he led me to honour fear and to degrade honesty.
whenever there was a so-called "negative" part of me:
feminist, homosexual, expressionist, creative,
it was immediately labelled as "from satan".
i am appaled when i retrospect the inverted "love" that is taught to be the purest form:
love they neighbour even if they take a shit on you
love your parents even when they abuse you
love yourself only if you are straight, white, productive
this "love" may be the most grotesque concept i have ever swallowed.
this "love" leaves people a hollow shell, rotely repeating prayers because the soul has been scarred too heavily to heal.
punk, goth, wicca
all serves to remind children that there is another way.
a way that is against all self-hatred.
it teaches one to grow strong as an individual and to realize that there can be no heaven above when there is no heaven below.
christianity has so much to account for.
preaching hate in the guise of love to the masses.
have you people ever consider that millions upon millions of people who are into such "satanic" groups are indicative of something that has long been ignored?
our children are trying to let us know that this world isnt good enough, this society based on fear and commercialism isnt good enough.
christ is not the answer!!!
WE are the answer!!!
by continuing to drive our planet, economy, foreign relations, human diversity into the ground while uselessly praying for some outside intervention pacifies us into stillness.
the idea that no one but god can help us is such a shitty way of copping out of feeling obligated to save ourselves.
it pisses me off that christianity, though one of the most regal and monetarily blessed constructions of all time, has been the worst at ecological awareness.
let me remind you that a simple prayer wont save the forest that the church built itself on.
the pope has apologized to the people it may have "offended" through time as if apologies were something more than spit and sound.
christianity has killed countless numbers of people all around the world since the beginning of time.
it continues to kill both people physically and emotionally.
christian kids are murdering goth kids with guns made of hymns and prayers thrown condescendingly their way.
they perpetuate the anxieties of not fitting in, of insecurites that abound in adolescence.
christianity is the most successful serial murderer of all time.
how much longer will you exploit children
how much longer will you domesticate/kill your wives
how much longer will you condemn the disillusioned
i am beyound thankful that i got out of christianity before it was too late.
i am now aware that satan is but a product and instrument of slavery,
and i am no longer a slave to fear.
i will never go back to christ
because it was in christ that i was terrified and
self-abusive, self-demeaning, self-misleading.
i now know that good people are good people, that they need not believe in anyone else but themselves to be loved.
no longer will i cry myself to sleep thinking about my family members in hell because, though they are so sweethearted and well intentioned, they arent christian.
that misogynist homophobe will never touch me again because i have learned to love myself first.
so fuck fear, satan, god, christ, hate, violence, religion, pollution, racism, homocide, propaganda, conformity, and everything that seeks to celebrate this horrendous hetero-sexist agenda.
the heaven you sell has sold you out.
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