PHILLY WEEKLY ARTICLE REVIEW
I never read any articles from Philly Weekly’s Steven Wells. Recently, I was looking at some music write-ups and a few of his articles came up. I read them. I read his music reviews, his opinions pieces, and his gruesome struggle with cancer.
After reading his article on his cancer experience “Cell Out,” I pitied him, and I admired his sadly humorous approach to the rapidly spreading sickness. I pretty much wanted to laugh at his witty writing, but felt so bad to do so.
However, I also noticed that most of his write-ups were extremely opinionated. As I was reading down Well’s one article “Not So Superstitious,” I started to get really uncomfortable. Does someone really have this much hatred toward religion? It seems that opinion fell off after the fourth line, and the article just became a downward spiral of a complete bash on religion. I wasn’t looking to read a hate letter, but somehow I stumbled upon one.
After reading the article I couldn’t help but stare at the screen of my computer in shock for a good ten minutes. My face became flushed, and I focused in on the words, "dumb-as-fuck defenders of selfishness and superstition.” There goes whatever respect I had for Wells as a writer. Yes―I was saddened by the fact that this was journalism. Good thing he has a pencil to express his anger and not a loaded gun. Else, we’d all be dead.
Man, Philly Weekly, not all of your audience is Atheist.
