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In 1999, as part of a promotion for The Blair Witch Project, I wrote the text for a website called P.A.R.O.D.Y., which satirized anti-goth sentiments that were then somewhat common. In the intervening years, the site has inspired a steady stream of flames (and a few accolades). Starting in January 2006, I have begun posting them for your reading pleasure. They are unedited except to make them anonymous.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Subject: P.A.R.O.D.Y

I just wanted to say that your site is great. At first I thought that it was for real, as there are actually sites that have some similar stuff on that has been passed off as fact. I am a huge Marilyn Manson fan and also an atheist. I guess I do match the Goth description and it’s cool to see someone mocking Christians who take it all too seriously. Although I am pessimistic and a bit depressed at times, I can have fun too, for example, laughing at Christians. I don’t think that I am a ‘poor soul’ and don’t intend on committing suicide in the near future. I’ve always been like that and being a Goth is just my way of expressing my feelings. Just because I like Marilyn Manson doesn’t mean that I’m going to slit my wrists. The whole point of Marilyn Manson’s music is to piss Christians off and it works too. They don’t seem to realise that they are just making fools of themselves and by trying to restrict their children they will only make them rebel more. I am 15 and I find the whole ‘child’ thing patronising and also very stupid. My parents cannot make me do anything I don’t want to and what I wear or what I believe in is up to me. Christians can’t force their children to follow their faith - Marilyn Manson’s parents sent him to a Christian school and look at him now. There is nothing wrong with Satanism, Paganism, Wicca, Homosexuality, Bisexuality etc and I thought you did a great job imitating some of the Christian fanatics out there. It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one who finds crazy Christians amusing.

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