*flipping a baseball cap & a folding chair around backward in one fluid movement* You know who else makes the air stink of sulfur & the hearts of men fill up with fear? That's right, my close personal friend, Lucifer the Morningstar.
Personally for me it does not feel particularly like what Jesus would do to make an annual ritual out of creating the sound and fury that is countless people including children's very last sensory experience before being killed by someone else's government
Out of curiousity I looked up the history. It looks like fun fireworks came first and then more seriously inclined people had a good long think about what would happen if you stuck the fun explody powder in a tube with a heavy ball on top and pointed it at something you wanted to put holes in.
Somewhere, there is an alternate universe where Ill Harvest is a pretty solid Beastie Boys concept album about the development of agriculture.
I hope it's the same alternate universe where they released The Illiad, about the fall of Troy.
