Somehow, I Don’t Feel Stupid For Not Getting It

From the Oxford Press today:
Three students held in church fires:

“After five tense weeks charged by a random series of nine backwoods church burnings, investigators Wednesday arrested three Birmingham college students, including two aspiring actors known around campus as pranksters, who allegedly set the first fire as ‘a joke.’

“The arrests relieved and perplexed churchgoers throughout Alabama’s rolling Black Belt, leaving them to wonder why three young men from upscale Birmingham suburbs would want to torch churches for kicks.

“‘We’re just relieved. It means this round of church burnings has shut down,’ said Jim Parker, pastor of the leveled Ashby Baptist Church, in Brierfield, a tiny community about 50 miles southwest of Birmingham. ‘But it’s inexplicable to me. You look at what they left, and the hurt done to a lot of hearts, and you wonder, ‘Why?’… ’”