Thursday, February 25, 2010

ASSOSIATED PRESS TO WORLD: DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE SCARY AND VOILENT!

What other message could they be trying to send? 

Atheism book found in home linked to fire suspect!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!!ATHEISTS ARE BURNING OUR CHURCHS!  PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT OPINIONS ARE GOING TO KILL US!  GET THE PITCHFORKS AND TORCHES!  WHAT DO YOU MEAN IRONIC!?

 Only...not so much.

Investigators have seized books on demons and atheism as well as rifles and knives from in a home linked to one of the men charged with setting an east Texas church on fire and suspected in a string of similar blazes.

 wait...  

A house linked to him?  So...not HIS house?  What?  His mother's?  Friends?  Closeted gay lover who is secretly a werewolf cyborg?  WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS STORY MEAN!?


He had demon books and atheism books?  What kind of books?  Pro-atheism?  books about atheism?  Books by Neil Gaiman who is an atheist?  The comic book The Atheist?  WTF?  

In reality he had 1 atheist book about living a moral life without Jesus and all...No clue if he was an atheist but if he was he probably should have paid more attention to it.


nothing.  It means SQUAT.  The news is just all too happy to stir up people's predujices under the guise of sensationalism.  Hell, they should have just put "NEGRO MUSIC FOUND IN HOUSE LINKED TO SUSPESCT" or "JEWISH SUBVERSIVE MATERIAL".  You fuckers, show an OUNCE of profesionalism, journalism and fucking respect for people.  You do not get to demonize 'scary others' because they're the minority.  It's pure douche and you should be ashamed.  

The important part...

A copy of The Creators, Demon Possession and The Atheist's Way. Reportedly, The Atheist's Way details believers' conversions to atheism and claims to help other readers live moral lives without gods.
Jason Bourque's family home in Lindale was also searched, yielding a small plastic bag of "suspected" marijuana seeds, more Skechers shoes, and three Bibles

...three bibles.  Yeah no need to mention that.  We were FAR too busy making tenuous connections and sensationalist accusations at minorities we can get away with bullying!  HAHA that's what news is about!  You mother fucking whores.  Fuck you Associated Press...fuck you so much you lazy sacks of zebra jizz.

4 comments:

EB said...

Uhm, to give any credence to demonic entities, possession, anything - you have to be a devoutly Christian person.

And to be atheist, actually atheist as opposed to throwing the label around for status purposes, don't you have to eschew religious frippery like demons?

And if you want to be moral and life-affirming, as does Maisel on his back cover blurbs, and presumably anyone who reads his book, doens't that nix the idea of arson?

I pronounce these "stories" to be attention grabbers, waving a straw atheist about, and abusing key "clutch the pearls" words like "demon" and "marijuana".

The presence of "odd" books on their own mean nothing. Many times they're casual reading, props, or indicative of a passing whim. The pot's the least of their troubles, too. Go nuts about meth or coke or something - that's walkin' around substances.

As for the graffiti, yes - pay attention to that. Pay attention to all sorts of things. Use the books and the crap in his place as *clues*, fucking *clues*, not a direct cause of his evil. Don't abuse them to increase your site meters, for pete's sake.

Ing said...

What gets me is that it wasn't apparently HIS house. It was a house Linked to him. So AP is going even further to draw this causal connection (or the police are for bothering to mention it). Actually, this might be a cynical ploy by the police to taint the jury pool against him. If he had a good lawyer they'd bitch about it.



And if it were Law&Order he'd get off

EB said...

so.....hmmm....if someone who knows me commits a crime, and then some lazy ass reporter looks at my bookshelf, will s/he of the lazy ass blame, say, transgender activists, bears, or ee cummings for inspiring the crime?

logic, we hardly knew ye

Ing said...

*takes a quick look at book shelf*

,,,apparently my crimes would be based on Puppies.