Posted on 10/22/2009 10:18:31 AM PDT by NYer
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 [broadcast] on the MTV network (a subsidiary of the Viacom Corporation) throughout the country through cable and satellite television.T
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.
In 2008 he participated in a video that mocked supporters of California's marriage initiative, Proposition 8. In commenting on that video, the Culture and Media Institute (CMI) said Black "appears as Jesus rebuking the Proposition 8 supporters while munching on a shrimp cocktail and saying that the Bible condemns eating shellfish too. Then he [Black] reels off some scripture references without context to suggest that the Bible is self-contradictory and unreliable." In their press release (December 4, 2008), CMI described Black as "an anti-Christian bigot."
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." The conservative commentator contends that "although it is hidden, Satanism is one of the fastest growing religions in America." He adds: "We can expect to see Satanists demanding and getting the same rights as any other religion." . . .Radio talk-show host Jesse Lee Peterson . . . says it is "disturbing that MTV continues to promote the most degenerate and base programs on its network....[They] intentionally air programming designed to seduce and corrupt the minds and hearts of America's youth" (like Sex...with Mom and Dad, among others). . . . (continue reading)
Video at above link.
Ping!
He is just a brain dead jerk.....
and the worst Carl Denham ever..........
Selling his soul DOES explain how he became famous though.
Why any one would hire this horses anus is beyond me. He gives me the creeps the couple of minutes I have seen him. His humor is sick minded and disgusting.
There are always those who’ll pervert liberty into licentiousness, and thus ruin it for everybody. No society can remain healthy when that happens, but will appeal to ever-greater government control - with ever-greater reduction in liberty - to save it from itself.
Don’t even try to put the blame on the government. “He who will not rule himself will be ruled by another.”
To MTV and everyone else complicit in taking away our liberty: Gee, thanks ever so much! /s
Be careful what you pray for!
Interesting. I kind of liked Jack Black - oh well - the audience seemed a little uneasy about him, IMO.
Disturbing - very disturbing.
That is very sobering and very creepy at the same time.
>> But regardless how one looks at Black’s actions, it sets a dangerous precedent.
This type of theater is nothing new, but still requires the attention it’s getting.
Wow, this is a necro bump for the story. Discussed last month here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340250/posts
Nacho Esclave
Jack Black is this generation’s Pauly Shore...a little goes a long way...
Heh.
You wonder how many more...
OK - That was funny. :)
I am not surprised as most of Hollywood is Godless. They will pay in the end.
>>His humor is sick minded and disgusting.<<
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That type seems to be the most popular and successful in our culture.
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