The only judgment I’ll make about Osbourne is not about his soul but that he had a tremendous influence on young people. His hedonistic, satan loving persona severely and adversely affected many of those young people. His influence was real. Much real suffering and grief came to them and their families. My conclusion is that he was not a good man.
He didn't love Satan. In fact, in his autobiography, "I Am Ozzy," he makes that perfectly clear. It was all theater, in the vein of Vaudeville-type horror and Bela Lugosi/Boris Karloff films. Artists have been plowing those same fields for centuries.
Alice Cooper, a devout Christian, plowed a similar field. I saw a recent interview with Cooper and he said that earlier pop icons, including Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope, who he was friends and golfing buddies with, recognized instantly where Cooper's schtick came from.
There's a hilarious anecdote by Ozzy in "I Am Ozzy" where he says that one night, a group of fans outside his hotel room door were sitting in a circle around a candle chanting some satanist gobblediegook. To the obvious pleasure of the chanters, Osbourne took a seat in the circle in front of the candle. The he started softly singing, "Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me!"
Lolololol! That was the end of the circle.
Ozzy was talented, innovative, crazy, hedonistic, a drug addict, an alcoholic and sometimes a madman, a husband and a father. But he was no Satanist, just a flawed human, like us all, barreling through life, trying to make sense of it all, looking for Salvation. I hope he's with God today.
Some people don’t care what damage they do to society, our country, and to people’s lives when there is money to be made.
The love of money.
Bizarre take but expected by many here.