![]() They just created two new ones when they plastered those dip-shits Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris’ pictures on the front of every newspaper. From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. The name Marilyn Manson has never celebrated the sad fact that America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars. Unfortunately, for all of their inspiring morality, nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.Ī lot of people forget or never realize that I started my band as a criticism of these very issues of despair and hypocrisy. Is it a symbol of hope or hopelessness? The world’s most famous murder-suicide was also the birth of the death icon – the blueprint for celebrity. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all our lives. Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel’s brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence. It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games or music to inspire cold-blooded murder. ![]()
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