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Prayer to Satan during MTV telecast - sign of the times?
OneNewsNow.com ^ | 10/16/2009 | James L. Lambert

Posted on 10/16/2009 8:50:32 PM PDT by hiho hiho

During last month's MTV music video awards ceremony, actor Jack Black urged the audience join hands and pray to "dear dark lord Satan." In his prayer, the actor prayed that the musicians and nominees would have "continued success in the music industry." The awards program was broadcasted on the MTV network (a subsidiary of the Viacom Corporation) throughout the country through cable and satellite television.

The Radio City Hall audience readily acquiesced to Black's invitation to pray to the devil. In a video posted on YouTube, Black encouraged the large audience to join in by saying, "let me see those horns." Black, dressed in a "muscle suit" continued by asking the awards ceremony audience to join hands during "the prayer." He then held hands with actress Leighton Meester while he prayed aloud.

Black's prayer went basically unnoticed among most conservative and Christian media circles -- perhaps because they feel the comedian was simply joking as he displayed his contempt for Christianity with the prayer invocation. In fact, this would be in keeping with Black's previous behavior.

Others claim last month's public "prayer" to Satan was just a publicity stunt to promote the new heavy metal video game, "Brutal Legend."

But regardless how one looks at Black's actions, it sets a dangerous precedent. Author and King's College professor Paul McGuire labels Black's prayer to Satan as "just the tip of the iceberg of what is happening in our nation and in the entertainment industry."

(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hollywood; jackblack; mtv; satan
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To: Carling

I agree. You put it well.


21 posted on 10/16/2009 9:11:57 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Julia H.
Praying to Satan is a sign of cheap gimmickry and nothing else.

You are absolutely wrong about that. Satan is real. Evil stalks this land today in plain sight.

22 posted on 10/16/2009 9:13:59 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: RobinOfKingston

“You are absolutely wrong about that. Satan is real. Evil stalks this land today in plain sight.”

It comes mass-produced in nifty packaging, too.

You can get worked up about it if you want. I won’t.


23 posted on 10/16/2009 9:22:19 PM PDT by Julia H. (Freedom of speech and freedom from criticism are mutually exclusive.)
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To: Julia H.

It’s just plain wrong.


24 posted on 10/16/2009 9:25:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ACORN: Absolute Criminal Organization of Reprobate Nuisances)
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To: madamemayhem

I guess there is a couple of missing links between mother and child, right?


25 posted on 10/16/2009 9:25:20 PM PDT by classified
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To: discostu
Maybe there was a rights issue? Anyway, metal is ripe for parody, both internally (the conventions and conceits of the genre) and externally (the fans that take it too seriously). Unfortunately, if you're not in on the joke, it just looks really weird and kind of threatening.

Besides, it's not the Satanists you have to look out for. If anyone, it's the neo-Pagan Tolkien geeks.

26 posted on 10/16/2009 9:31:24 PM PDT by Caesar Soze
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To: hiho hiho

No wonder I have had misgivings about this guy..


27 posted on 10/16/2009 9:34:14 PM PDT by JSDude1 (www.wethepeopleindiana.org (Tea Party Member-Proud), www.travishankins.com (R- IN 09 2010!))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Phony “Satanists” are looking for precisely the reaction many are giving in this thread, not for the real Satan. I wouldn’t think the attention-getting tactics of stupid perpetual adolescents are much of a match for God’s reign on Earth.


28 posted on 10/16/2009 9:35:16 PM PDT by Julia H. (Freedom of speech and freedom from criticism are mutually exclusive.)
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To: Julia H.

Well, do you have to be devil-loving evil to be an award winning musician? Or to attend an MTV event? It looks like you do — if it was I, I would have been quite offended.


29 posted on 10/16/2009 9:37:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ACORN: Absolute Criminal Organization of Reprobate Nuisances)
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To: Julia H.

Exactly, Satan wouldn’t be that obvious about it.


30 posted on 10/16/2009 9:40:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: hiho hiho

I’d have walked on stage: “Yo, Jack, I’m really happy for you and Ima let you finish, but Jesus Christ has the best Book of all time!”


31 posted on 10/16/2009 9:40:55 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Nope, and there probably weren’t many genuine devil-lovers at that event. Just people who can’t think of original ways to get attention.

When was the last time MTV strove to be non-offensive, anyway?


32 posted on 10/16/2009 9:53:46 PM PDT by Julia H. (Freedom of speech and freedom from criticism are mutually exclusive.)
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To: Caesar Soze

Not only is metal ripe for parody but the bands can take a joke, almost all of them can quote Spinal Tap.


33 posted on 10/16/2009 9:54:09 PM PDT by discostu (The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
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To: hiho hiho; All

Could be wrong, but I think I heard Black is actually kind of conservative in his private life....
Until further info, I think I’ll just assume that this was more ‘shtick’ than serious.

The fundamentalists are free to question his ‘taste’ but to fly off the handle and assume he is the reincarnation of Anton LaVey might make you look kind of silly.


34 posted on 10/16/2009 10:27:12 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: discostu

Jack Black is one of the least funny comedians around. Will Ferrell is another. How and why these 2 continue to get work is beyond me.

I automatically skip any movie these “so-call” actors are in.


35 posted on 10/16/2009 10:27:24 PM PDT by packrat35 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.- M Thatcher)
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To: hiho hiho
...actor Jack Black

That's all I needed to see in relation to the headline...

36 posted on 10/16/2009 10:41:53 PM PDT by csense
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To: hiho hiho
Black's prayer went basically unnoticed among most conservative and Christian media circles -- perhaps because they feel the comedian was simply joking as he displayed his contempt for Christianity with the prayer invocation.

They feel the comedian was joking because he was joking, of course. I'm not a fan of Black's, but anyone who saw Black would have to be completely devoid of humor not to realize that he was kidding.
37 posted on 10/16/2009 10:49:22 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: hiho hiho

Backmasking reveals eeveetmhe


38 posted on 10/16/2009 10:50:47 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: hiho hiho; All

if you think that’s freaky... wait until you see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPZdLqGG7HY

(i have tried it and it works)


39 posted on 10/16/2009 10:59:16 PM PDT by sten
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To: MplsSteve

I see nothing wrong with someone mocking Satan. First time I’ve heard Satan’s name in public since the late ‘80s.

Satan deserves to be mocked.


40 posted on 10/16/2009 11:03:51 PM PDT by Carling (Olympicsgate: Obama's Waterloo)
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