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Black Mass in Oklahoma Today.

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
Amid a flurry of controversy and confusion, the Oklahoma Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City will be become the setting for a public Black Mass this Sunday, Sept. 21. The event, which is being billed as “enlightening and educational,” is reportedly now sold out. The purpose of the public staging, as written in the Civic Center’s blurb, is to bring a feared ritual “into the light.”

Just as problems arose when a Harvard University Extension club attempted to sponsor a Black Mass, the Oklahoma event has inspired local protests that began immediately after the Civic Center listed the Black Mass on its schedule. However, in this story, the ensuing controversy took a few unexpected twists and turns that go well-beyond typical outrage from the city’s Catholic community.

- See more at: The Oklahoma Black Mass: Controversy, Confusion and Religious Freedom | The Wild Hunt

Apparently there's going to be a big protest:

An organizer says he expects up to 600 people from as far away as Pennsylvania to attend a prayer rally expressing opposition to the “black mass” at downtown’s Civic Center Music Hall.

A Satanist plans the event Sunday evening in CitySpace, a small theater in the Civic Center basement that holds fewer than 100 people. The event has been sold out for a couple of weeks.

Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley has directed Catholics to conduct a “campaign of prayer” in response to the black mass. The city declined his request that officials ban the event.

Brian McCall received a permit from the city for a procession through downtown and prayer rally outside the Civic Center on Sunday afternoon, preceding the black mass.
The event is being led by the Society of St. Pius X in America.

The organization says on its website that its U.S. District Superior, the Rev. Jurgen Wegner, has issued a “call to reparation” in response to the black mass.

Plans are for a traditional Latin Mass at the downtown Sheraton Hotel at 11 a.m. Sunday, followed by a procession through downtown to the Civic Center, McCall said.
An outdoor prayer rally is planned between 1 and 2 p.m. Participants then plan to return to the Sheraton, he said.

McCall said the organization had received RSVPs from Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

Another group has a permit for a prayer rally between 5 and 7 p.m. outside the Civic Center.

In addition, a man from Longdale, in northwestern Oklahoma, has a permit to pass out Christian CDs and literature on Sunday evening at the Civic Center.
The black mass is to begin at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Coakley plans to lead a church service and procession beginning at 3 p.m. Sunday at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 1901 NW 18 St.

Organizer expects more than 600 to rally against Oklahoma City 'black mass' | News OK

My sympathies are with the Satanists. :D
 

Thruve

Sheppard for the Die Hard
A parody of the Catholic Mass that denounces God and Christ and praises Satan. It's mostly a joke that's done for theatrical purposes.


And when people get shot or killed, or beaten half to death, I don't wana see a single news article about it because ill lawl out my squiggly scqooch.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
And when people get shot or killed, or beaten half to death, I don't wana see a single news article about it because ill lawl out my squiggly scqooch.

No one's going to get beaten or killed. :rolleyes: If anyone does get hurt, I guarantee that it'll be the fault of the fanatical Christians.
 

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
If I were a christianist strategy wonk I would be thrilled.
How often is there an event that rallies the troops in Oklahoma?

Think of the data they can collect, the donations, the commitments, the contacts. Think how well this will provide sermon material for years. SATAN IS ALIVE AND WELL IN OKLAHOMA! SAVE YOURSELF WHILE YOU CAN!

Tom
 

Gjallarhorn

N'yog-Sothep
If I were a christianist strategy wonk I would be thrilled.
How often is there an event that rallies the troops in Oklahoma?

Think of the data they can collect, the donations, the commitments, the contacts. Think how well this will provide sermon material for years. SATAN IS ALIVE AND WELL IN OKLAHOMA! SAVE YOURSELF WHILE YOU CAN!

Tom

Satan's the best friend the Church has ever had, and Satanists know it. They're so compassionate. :angel2:
 

4consideration

*
Premium Member
I think the group has a right to hold the event. I also can't be a bit surprised that a group would be offended by an event designed with an obvious intent to mock that group and everything they hold as sacred (edit, add: that they identify with, hold in high esteem, or that they think is being mistreated.)
 
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Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
Praise Jesus it isn't a group of Muslims being so offended.
Tom

Yeah, imagine the fallout of a group of people having a high-profile ceremony worshiping Iblis. :eek:

Honestly, offending uptight Christians is old hat and predictable. Even Marilyn Manson moved on from it.
 

FunctionalAtheist

Hammer of Reason
Praise Jesus it isn't a group of Muslims being so offended.
Tom

Eh, Praise Thomas Jefferson that american religious groups have been reminded every day for 240 years that americans so not accept religious fervor as a justification for violence. Do you really think if someone held a black mass in salem 300 years ago there would have been more tolerance from christians than muslims today may exhibit?

The only difference between muslim and christian is 250 years of beating it into their heads that religious fervor is an unacceptable justification for violence!
 

Huey09

He who struggles with God
I don't know much about Satanism but my philosophy about demonstrations and religious moments is in line with Will Smith in MIB: "Don't start none, won't be none" :) I hope everyone in the black mass has fun and that these Fanatics will go home and read a book. I suggest the DC comic series Lucifer ;) hahaha
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
I don't know much about Satanism but my philosophy about demonstrations and religious moments is in line with Will Smith in MIB: "Don't start none, won't be none" :) I hope everyone in the black mass has fun and that these Fanatics will go home and read a book. I suggest the DC comic series Lucifer ;) hahaha

Hahahaha. That's a good idea!
 

columbus

yawn <ignore> yawn
I don't know much about Satanism but my philosophy about demonstrations and religious moments is in line with Will Smith in MIB: "Don't start none, won't be none" :) I hope everyone in the black mass has fun and that these Fanatics will go home and read a book. I suggest the DC comic series Lucifer ;) hahaha

I don't watch movies much so I don't know Men in Black. (Will is hot, that's all I know)

But the quote is dead wrong. Anybody can be quietly minding their own business and still get their everything trashed by one violent dufous with a plan or a weapon. That is why the world is so violent. Because violence works in the short term way humans tend to think.

Tom
 

Whiterain

Get me off of this planet
Eh, Praise Thomas Jefferson that american religious groups have been reminded every day for 240 years that americans so not accept religious fervor as a justification for violence. Do you really think if someone held a black mass in salem 300 years ago there would have been more tolerance from christians than muslims today may exhibit?

The only difference between muslim and christian is 250 years of beating it into their heads that religious fervor is an unacceptable justification for violence!

I doubt there will be any lynching, stonings, immolation's or molotov cocktails, that would be a fascinating development though..

Religious freedom is a constitutional right of American citizens and the
Christians are a always up and up about how this was a Christian nation
and should be a Christian nation. It's one of those fine print things people
just disregard about American citizenship.
 
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