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 ...
This couldn’t be some jibe at the sindustry?
They honored child molester Micheal Jackson... what a shock
Dear God Almighty.
We are ¥definitely in the last days. Time to get ME to a church!!!
Any Southern Baptist ones up there?
I think it was shtick. I wouldn't get too worked up over it.
Who is Jack Black?
?
It’s Jack Black doing his heavy metal thing. From the early days of Tenacious D his metal routine has included pseudo-satanism poking fun at the 80s when certain parts of the Christian community decided heavy metal was satanic. Those parts of Christianity now focus on Harry Potter but Jack seems to like metal more.
No one.
The jury saw it differently.
Forgive then father. For they know not what they do.
Praying to Satan is a sign of cheap gimmickry and nothing else.
He also does the voice for the player character in Brutal Legend, and he’s done at least one real short crossover between Brutal Legend and Metalocalypse. (Speaking of which, the second Dethklok album is out. Still waiting on William Murderface’s solo project....)
the devil’s disciple it seems.
Ah well, God or Satan, aren’t they brothers or something
Ask the Mittwits.
would you believe this guys mother is actually a rocket scientist? she worked on the hubble space telescope.
I was kind of surprised Brutal Legend (which is doubtless what he’s promoting) didn’t get an official tie-in with The D. It’s totally the same mentality and humor, the fantasy world of heavy metal where all the satanism is real but in a funny way.
I agree. You put it well.
You are absolutely wrong about that. Satan is real. Evil stalks this land today in plain sight.
“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.
It’s just plain wrong.
I guess there is a couple of missing links between mother and child, right?
Besides, it's not the Satanists you have to look out for. If anyone, it's the neo-Pagan Tolkien geeks.
No wonder I have had misgivings about this guy..
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.
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.
Exactly, Satan wouldn’t be that obvious about it.
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!”
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?
Not only is metal ripe for parody but the bands can take a joke, almost all of them can quote Spinal Tap.
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.
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.
That's all I needed to see in relation to the headline...
Backmasking reveals eeveetmhe
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)
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.
Really? I thought “Tropic Thunder” was hilarious. A group of actors poking fun at themselves and other hollywood stereotypes. It was pretty entertaining.
Just a bunch of nuts. The 1970’s were very scary for all. It’s a rehash of BS through multimedia to freak people out.
“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 mostly agree with you about Will Ferrell, but Jack Black really does have talent, I thought he was excellent in School of Rock. It was on the strength of his performance in School of Rock that Peter Jackson cast him for King Kong, although I didn’t think he did nearly as well in that film, as the material simply didn’t really suit him. I thought Jack Black was good in Kung Fu Panda as well, although I didn’t like him much in Nacho Libre.
Clearly Jack Black was doing some sort of cheap promo. I’m far more troubled by members of the audience that just jumped in and followed.
They honored child molester Micheal Jackson... what a shock
&&&
And they are defending child rapist Roman Polanski.
I’m not into Jack’s “normal” stuff, but when there’s music involved (like his Tenacious D or School of Rock) I really like it. And having been a metal fan in the 80s and an RPG player before that, I really really like him poking fun at the “it’s satanic” crowd.
Isn’t Jack Black JEWISH???? OMG! I REALLY don’t like Jews dissing Christians....I REALLY don’t.
So now we can satirize Mohommad but not Satan? Just want to keep my players card updated...
I just don’t find him funny. I am sure he was just poking fun (as he saw it) about the Satan thing. I just don’t find him funny. Same thing with Will Ferrell.
Really, probable the worse thing I have seen this decade.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.