Sometimes (but not often) that nonsense machine that some
call the Manx media throws up some genuine good news. And so it was when I read
on the Energy FM website that: “This year's Firestarter Festival has been
cancelled due to poor ticket sales.”
Yes, I also had problems believing that hardcore evangelical tub-thumpers can
ever admit a plain truth, but go to http://www.energyfm.net/cms/news_story_228203.html
if you want to see for yourselves.
Even better is the final sentence of a short and unhappy
press release in which the organisers promise that: “Those people who have
bought tickets will receive a full refund.”
So, it seems to be official then. Manx fundamentalists are
admitting that - even with many wealthy and unscrupulous friends - they cannot
round up enough kids to voluntarily attend their annual weekend prayerfest. Even worse, it
seems they no longer have enough friends in the social and probation services
to drag some along involuntarily, then send the government the bill.
I wonder which realisation hurt most. The one that no amount
of pleading from the pulpit or promises of free sweets in ‘educational support
groups’ was going to harvest enough victims (sorry ‘visitors’), or the really
frightening one to any evangelical - that they actually have to pay back money
received for services they were never going to deliver.
Despite the brave talk, I also doubt they will ‘Do a Terminator’
and come back next year twice as big and twice as ugly.
Gone for good, I think……. and forget about ‘The Rapture’.
Totally.
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