Prayer to Satan during MTV telecast - sign of the times?

OneNewsNow.com ^ | 10/16/2009 | James L. Lambert

[MplsSteve]

I agree. You put it well.

[RobinOfKingston]

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.

[Julia H.]

“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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s just plain wrong.

[classified]

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

[Caesar Soze]

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.

[JSDude1]

No wonder I have had misgivings about this guy..

[Julia H.]

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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.

[dfwgator]

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

[Larry Lucido]

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!”

[Julia H.]

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?

[discostu]

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

[LegendHasIt]

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.

[packrat35]

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.

[csense]

...actor Jack Black

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

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

[P.O.E.]

Backmasking reveals eeveetmhe

[sten]

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)

[Carling]

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.