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Church arsonist blames heavy-metal hero
By Steve Butcher
May 5, 2005

A devoted follower of a Scandinavian band notorious for its heavy metal
anti-Christian music burnt down a majestic Moonee Ponds church in a
multimillion-dollar arson attack.

Novak Majstorovic had drunken visions of the 107-year-old Ascot Vale
Uniting Church being responsible for society's problems with law,
ethics and morality.

Majstorovic, 19, admitted his passion for the band Burzum, whose lead
singer was allegedly involved in burning down numerous Norwegian
churches in the 1990s, helped create a heavy metal ideological imagery
based on good and evil.



"It can be explained through any real meanings, you know, but using God
and Satan is just like a... it's an image," he told police after his
arrest.

Victorian arson squad detectives treated Majstorovic as a suspect after
investigations revealed his interest in Burzum and "black metal" music
and culture.

Police learnt the band's lead singer Varg Vikernes, now in jail for
murder, was commonly referred to as a Satanist, but was regarded more
as deeply anti-Christian and anti-Semitic.

Majstorovic yesterday appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to
plead guilty to arson and burglary from the fire in Maribyrnong Road,
Moonee Ponds, on August 29, 2004.

His lawyer Shannon Dellamarta said the damage was valued at more than
$3 million. (http://www.churcharson.com)

In a summary tendered to the court, the church, widely used by its
local community, was described as majestic and ornate. Its
irreplaceable pipe organ and historic records were destroyed in the
fire.

Majstorovic, who had drunk half a bottle of bourbon, had earlier left a
party, telling guests he was going to burn the church. After entering,
he lit Bibles, scrap paper, books and flags near the pulpit and left.

Asked days later by Detective Sergeant Andrew Kerr if he considered the
elderly who had cried over the church or what it had stood for,
Majstorovic replied: "It was what it stood for, but it's... it's just
an object, you know. It's just a building. Faith lies with the
individual."

Pressed by Sergeant Kerr about it being sacred and a "heart and soul of
things", he said that the church "doesn't like people to cling to any
sort of idols here on earth".

Majstorovic said that because he was drunk and near a church he thought
he would act on an ideological belief the church was responsible for
society's problems.

"A lot of the concepts of my ideologies and stuff would, sort of, stem
from heavy metal, from the imagery of heavy metal, from the metaphors
that heavy metal uses with the, like, Christian sort of metaphors of
good and evil and such," he said.

Magistrate Lisa Hannan bailed Majstorovic, of Hoppers Crossing, to
appear in the County Court on August 23.

http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/05/04/1115092561935.html

karabas barabas

I can only imagine how fast and bodily sweaty those
bankrupt priests were running to hold on their
hot as hell treasured chapel with a cracking kick,
uproar. Screaming terrified at heavens NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Reckon those padres scratching their
butts off(hopefully their own), that automatic sprinkler
installment should have been there in the first place

phm

Good! Religion was never befriended upon society anyways! It was always
similar to your childhood bullies (which I'm sure many of you've had). "If
you don't believe in me, you'll go to hell." A lot like what the Catholic
church's ideas of homo***uality and ************ are. Well, if you are
condemned to hell for those acts, they've already reserved a front row,
guest-list, backstage section in hell just for me!
My idea of what hell is like is, you remember the guy who cuts in front
of you in lineups? How about the guy who cut you off in traffic today? Or
ripped you off from your TV set, and stereo? It's all these people standing
in front of Satan's stage, masturbating simultaneously, looking at one
another, recognizing one another. "You're here too! You're here too! ****!"
Women somehow escape this hell, since we men are always serving you
platefuls of hell day-to-day, so they're cool.
Oh, and the idea of heavy metal being a political force is to me so
ignorant. Not all metal is about good and evil. Do you see any of those
politicians listening to a few tracks of Conqueror, or Blasphemy? And then
being able to prove that they are against politicians? I prefer the
Nihilistic views of these bands, and this is also why I'd support these
bands, by buying their CDs, or various other merchandise. Because we see eye
to eye on many things about religion. I was rejoicing, and overjoyed when I
heard the news that the pope was dead (I was really hoping that the Vatican
and Catholicism would have died along with him)! I don't know if I'm the
only one here, who heard a few days around the pope's death, all these
ailments, and diseases somehow magically had treatments! Or better ones than
were already in place. In closing, RELIGION = OPPRESSION,
CLASSIFICATION=IGNORANCE

srprozak

"CLASSIFICATION=IGNORANCE" is a classification, however.

frog

As you know a-you live in the world's biggest Christian backwater and b-
I HATE SPAM

a

Wake up! America has become a Xian country and there is no more
separation of church and state and you guys are celebrating small victories

jp

America has "become" a Xian country? LOL - Actually 95% of these "Xians"
came from Europe. Where else do you think they came from? Reticulan 2 in the
Beta 4 stargroup?? Who needs to wake up?! ~

karabas barabas

i have skilled my tolerance in jewish gold rush program!

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