Jack Black is leading us into the light...of Darkness!!!!

"Dear Satan, please come fill me with your big naughty evil!"

Guest punching bag, James L. Lambert, is today's disposable columnist at OneNewsNow. I thought that I had never heard of him before, but it turns out that I once didn't write about him. (See this HJHOP "lost episode.")

His article is called "Prayer to Satan during MTV telecast - sign of the times?"

The correct answer is "probably not," but Jimmy comes up with another answer, but this is probably because his alarmist ninniness prevents him from being completely forthright.

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.

Oh, that's why I felt a dark, intoxicating power the likes of which I had never experienced before rush through me like an orgasm! Satan wuz in the ayer wavez!

The Radio City Hall audience readily acquiesced to Black's invitation to pray to the devil.

My favorite bit was when they slit the neck of the goat and then bit the head off of a baby. That cracks me up all the time.

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.

Hm. Why do I think that this is perhaps not completely forthright.

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.

It wasn't a real prayer, you Prep-H wipe. Do I have to explain humor to you?

The crowd is laughing, you retard! It's a joke! They thought it was a joke! He's playing on the old "rock is the debbil's music" adage and is suggesting that the people in the music industry have sold their souls.

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."

So, you are saying that the Bible does not condemn eating shellfish? And what is the "context" you speak of? The shit you make up so that the contradictions only seem to you (and you alone) to not be completely irreconcilable? That doesn't count as scripture.

In their press release (December 4, 2008), CMI described Black as "an anti-Christian bigot."

So what? Who are they? He is an anti-bigot non-Christian. Yes, you can be a Christian and a bigot. Often among fundamentalists, these two go together.

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

No idea. Is he in that? Sure, why not?

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."

What's wrong with that? Why shouldn't they get the same rights? And where is your evidence? And King's College London? Wow. That's pretty prestigious. Oh, wait. Are you sure you did not mean, "The King's Seminary?", because it sure looks like he is teaching a $45 dollar, 8-week course at the Pentecostal King's Seminary and Charismatic Circle-Jerk-o-Rama's equivalent of classes at the Y!



I love that the male host is the voice of SpongeBob.

HJ