I can't hear you , and I'm not listening. No, I'm joking. I can hear you. So I've been doing very well at the mo, but a few days ago I was browsing on the net for Gothic News, all about the subculture(If you're new to this blog then you'll find out by strolling down that I am a bit of a goth and I have a soft spot for the gothic subculture), and I ran into this website called 'GodHatesGoths.com'.
http://www.godhatesgoths.com/
Well , for starters , this was a big no-no in my book. I was deeply offended just by the name , and then I stupidly read on. It had some very interesting 'information' of the goth subculture and I can at least say that this blogger hasn't done any research. This is how it all started:
''GOTH
IS A SICK, DEPRAVED
AND VIOLENT SUB-CULTURE. IT IS A SUB-CULTURE
IMMERSED IN THE OCCULT, VAMPIRISM, WITCHCRAFT, DEATH, HORROR, RAPE,
SUICIDE AND
PERVERSITY.
WHILE
ALL SUB-CULTURES ARE INHERENTLY BAD, GOTH IS
THE WORST OF THESE SUB-CULTURES. BY DEFINITION THEY ARE “SUB” (ie.
LOWER OR INFERIOR) TO NORMAL HARD-WORKING
CULTURES. AS IN ‘SUB-STANDARD’ CULTURE. THEY DO NOT PROMOTE ANY VALUES
THAT BENEFIT SOCIETY. THEY DO NOT PROMOTE ANY
VALUES THAT MAKE FOR STABLE FAMILIES. THEY DO NOT PROMOTE VALUES THAT
POTENTIAL
EMPLOYERS FIND APPEALING. NO FORTUNE 500
COMPANIES WANTS TO EMPLOY SOME DRUGGED-UP LOSER WITH PAINTED NAILS,
NOSE-PIERCINGS,
TATTOED ARMS OR GREEN HAIR.''
Well, there are certainly alot of things I could correct him on, but luckily enough I am not a correction-Nazi. I would just like to say how this has deeply offended me, and I can tell you alot of good things about Goth's.
I know plently of people who are goths and have jobs. Being a goth isn't exactly cheap, with the black teeshirts, spiked collars, studded belts, and skinny jeans. I know goths who give reading lessons to children. I'm a goth myself , and I volunteer at the foodbank. I personally know two very nice goth girls, one who is very hard working and who I could easily see as a psychiatrist, and another who is homeschooled and quite frankly hilarious.
I looked up the person who wrote this article and made this website, and his name is Reverend R.G Green. My opinion is that he is scared of any originality and imaginative ideas on this rock that we call Earth. I think he is a sick, failed experiment that the goverment tried to make to stamp out any originality. He has taken this way too far. Take a look at this extract.
'' I
recently had a grieving mother mail me, to enquire
where her 14 year old daughter's soul was. Her daughter was
a Goth, and an open Wiccan and vampire. She had
abandoned the Church, turned her back on God and embraced Satanism with
both
hands. At the tender age of 12 because she had thrown
it all away because of so-called harmless books such as Harry Potter,
which leads children into the 'exciting' world of
magic - and away from God. Though her daughter was a self-confessed
'witch' when she died, her mother was foolish enough
to tell me her daughter was with the angels. Of course this angered
me greatly, and I wrote back to tell her exactly where
her filthy daughter’s soul was. Burning for eternity in eternal
torment in the fires of Hell, suffering for all time
because of this so-called 'harmless life-style choice'. ''
I'm sorry but that is just sick. Telling a person who has lost their baby that their child's soul is burning in the depths of hell is just disgusting. This man has said that the Goth subculture is a cancer and that goths are more dangerous to children than pedophiles. If you pardon the word, but what I load of absolute crap. This man seriously needs to understand what goth really is , and if he calls himself a christian then he seriously needs some counseling.
I'm really sorry for my rant but I am truly passionate about this and I hope I do not find a website like this again. But what is your approach to this? Do you agree? Or are you slightly scared by goths, because if you are that's okay. Its purely a matter of opinion.
Thank you very much for reading, and have a great weekend.
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