{"id":2794,"date":"2014-08-24T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:03:25","slug":"black-mass-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/08\/24\/black-mass-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mass Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been following along pretty closely as the Catholics here in Oklahoma City have cast about themselves for some way to shut down the Satanists here in Oklahoma City, at least with respect to their upcoming Black Mass<\/a>. I wrote earlier about Bill Donahue’s attempts to leverage public outrage<\/a> and Paul Coakley’s attempts to demand replevin<\/a>\u00a0of the (allegedly) consecrated host through the courts. A certain friendly atheist<\/a> over at Patheos has covered this story in some depth\u00a0(as have some vastly less enlightened<\/a> Patheos bloggers) and one of my favorite law professors has weighed<\/a> in<\/a> repeatedly<\/a>\u00a0on the relevant legal issues.<\/p>\n

Even after reading all the news and blogs, though, it felt like I wasn’t getting the whole story. Since this is a local story, and since\u00a0we have a local podcast<\/a>, we decided to dig down a bit further and find out what really happened. I’m still waiting to hear back from the Catholics (who sort of scare me, to be honest) but the Satanists were fairly forthcoming\u00a0when I visited their church last weekend. Learned quite a bit from them, including\u00a0why the Satanists in OKC aren’t exactly in communion with those in NYC, why a conducting a true Black Mass requires a level of sexual confidence and\u00a0lack of performance anxiety usually\u00a0reserved for porn stars, and why goats are considered symbols of the left-hand path.<\/p>\n

\"Goats<\/a>
No goats were harmed in the making of this episode<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also learned that unconsecrated wafers taste just\u00a0awful<\/em>. It’s no wonder\u00a0religious people feel the\u00a0need to work magic on those things.\u00a0 If you don’t mind a fair helping of blasphemous\u00a0obscenity, then you may well enjoy the show<\/a>. If you are the sort of person who gets offended, though, better just skip this one.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/GODCAST\/AOK\/2014-08-24_-_AOK_105.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Share and enjoy!<\/p>\n

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