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“Voodoo – vous deux – what you do unto another, you do unto you.”
“Do what you will, so long as it harms none.” Wiccan Rede

Ozzy Osbourne meets Marilyn Manson and all hell breaks loose by Alan DiPerna (excerpt)

GW: Why do you think people are scared of you guys?

MANSON: The biggest thing the conservatives are afraid of is that we’re encouraging people to think and be creative and break out of the closed-minded mentality of mainstream America. Thinking for yourself-that’s scarier than any devil image. I think people haven’t looked closely enough at what Marilyn Manson is. It’s extreme positive and extreme negative together. It’s not all as dark as people would like to think. I mean, they would love for me to be someone who tortured animals or molested children. But I’m way more frightening than that because I’m way more real. And what I have to offer is the truth. That’s more scary than any kind of crime I could commit.

OSBOURNE: You think you’ve been slandered? Cardinal O’Connor in New York actually got on the fucking pulpit one day. . . This is a cardinal, next one down from being the Pope, you know? He gets up on his fucking thing and tells the congregation that I am the antichrist. And that’s wrong, that is. `Cause you’re gonna get some wacko out there that’s gonna buy a Saturday Night Special and pop me one in the back of the fucking head, thinking that he had a vision from Christ. That is my fear. If it comes from the Church, then it’s all right for some of these nutcases. The clergy is in a more dangerously powerful position than you or I will ever be. Because if a Cardinal gets on the pulpit and tells his congregation that I, Ozzy Osbourne, am the reason for all the badness in the world, then you’re gonna get some nutcase want to wipe me out, you know? I’ve had threats to my life. Part of the reason I run around so much onstage is because somebody told me a moving target is harder to hit.

Personally, I think Marilyn Manson, and Ozzie Osbourne for that matter, are about as evil for their onstage personas and music as J.K.Rowling is evil for her characterization of Voldemort, or as C.S.Lewis is evil for Wormwood and Uncle Screwtape, as William Blake is evil for his “Proverbs from Hell“, and as Mark Twain is evil for ‘The Chronicle of Young Satan ‘. It’s all just a stage act. I don’t entirely approve of all they’ve done during performances, but I do find some of their music cathartic. ‘The Beautiful People’ seems to be about oppression, fascism and the herd mentality.

When I first saw the video, I was transfixed. Reminded me of one of my most memorable nightmares.

‘And I don’t want you and I don’t need you. Don’t bother to resist, or I’ll only beat you. It’s not your fault that you’re always wrong. The weak ones are there to justify the strong. The beautiful people, the beautiful people. It’s all relative to the size of your steeple. You can’t see the forest for the trees. You can’t smell your own shit on your knees.’

Oh my, found the following about Mark Twain on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Stranger

The book version that was published nonetheless maintains Twain’s vicious attack on the hypocrisy of organized religion that is the subject of much of Twain’s later writings. He views religion as a (questionably) “moral” order to protect wealth, political power, and oppression.

Questioning organized religion is not the same as questioning God. I have a very strong faith in God.