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Sheriff: Witness saw men in car laugh after throwing firework that ignited Oregon wildfire
Investigators say the driver - Tyler Weeks (left) - and passenger - Tristan Forrest (right) - admitted lighting off illegal fireworks. The two were arrested and booked into the Benton County Jail on suspicion of Arson 2, Reckless Burning, Possession of Illegal Fireworks, Criminal Mischief, and Disorderly Conduct.
ALSEA, Ore. - Two men face accusations they intentionally tossed a firework from a car on July 4, sparking a brush fire that burned on both sides of Highway 34, the Benton County Sheriff's Office said.
https://katu.com/news/local/sheriff...hrowing-firework-that-ignited-oregon-wildfire
Investigators say the driver - Tyler Weeks (left) - and passenger - Tristan Forrest (right) - admitted lighting off illegal fireworks. The two were arrested and booked into the Benton County Jail on suspicion of Arson 2, Reckless Burning, Possession of Illegal Fireworks, Criminal Mischief, and Disorderly Conduct.
ALSEA, Ore. - Two men face accusations they intentionally tossed a firework from a car on July 4, sparking a brush fire that burned on both sides of Highway 34, the Benton County Sheriff's Office said.
https://katu.com/news/local/sheriff...hrowing-firework-that-ignited-oregon-wildfire
The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It
In addition to shrinking as a share of the population, white evangelicals were also the oldest religious group in the United States, with a median age of 56. “It’s not just that they are dying off, but it is that they’re losing younger members,” Jones told me. As the group has become older and smaller, Jones said, “a real visceral sense of loss of cultural dominance” has set in.
White evangelicals once saw themselves “as the owners of mainstream American culture and morality and values,” said Jones. Now they are just another subculture.
From this fact derives much of our country’s cultural conflict. It helps explain not just the rise of Donald Trump, but also the growth of QAnon and even the escalating conflagration over critical race theory. “It’s hard to overstate the strength of this feeling, among white evangelicals in particular, of America being a white Christian country,” said Jones. “This sense of ownership of America just runs so deep in white evangelical circles.” The feeling that it’s slipping away has created an atmosphere of rage, resentment and paranoia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/opinion/religious-right-america.html
'Hey, old man,
How can you stand
To think that way?
Did you really think about it
Before you made the rules?'
In addition to shrinking as a share of the population, white evangelicals were also the oldest religious group in the United States, with a median age of 56. “It’s not just that they are dying off, but it is that they’re losing younger members,” Jones told me. As the group has become older and smaller, Jones said, “a real visceral sense of loss of cultural dominance” has set in.
White evangelicals once saw themselves “as the owners of mainstream American culture and morality and values,” said Jones. Now they are just another subculture.
From this fact derives much of our country’s cultural conflict. It helps explain not just the rise of Donald Trump, but also the growth of QAnon and even the escalating conflagration over critical race theory. “It’s hard to overstate the strength of this feeling, among white evangelicals in particular, of America being a white Christian country,” said Jones. “This sense of ownership of America just runs so deep in white evangelical circles.” The feeling that it’s slipping away has created an atmosphere of rage, resentment and paranoia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/opinion/religious-right-america.html
'Hey, old man,
How can you stand
To think that way?
Did you really think about it
Before you made the rules?'
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