{"id":1246,"date":"2014-09-29T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2014-09-29T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T01:42:07","slug":"two-guys-went-to-the-black-mass-protests-youll-never-believe-what-happened-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/09\/29\/two-guys-went-to-the-black-mass-protests-youll-never-believe-what-happened-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Two guys went to the Black Mass protests. You&#8217;ll never believe what happened next!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlyimage.com\/photo\/jesus-vs-satan-arm-wrestling-x1080-high-quality-and-resolution-3043268\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 3px solid #ffffff\" title=\"Jesus vs satan arm wrestling x1080 High Quality and Resolution Stock Image\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2014\/09\/jesus-vs-satan-arm-wrestling-x1080-high-quality-and-resolution-stock-image-300x169-3043268.jpg\" alt=\"Sports &amp; Fitness\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, September 21st there was quite the hullaballoo in downtown Oklahoma City. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2014\/09\/23\/the-black-mass-in-oklahoma-featured-42-attendees-and-hundreds-of-catholic-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hundreds of protestors<\/a> gathered in front of the Civic Center in response to a &#8220;Black Mass&#8221; being held inside in one of the smaller theaters. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dakhmaofangramainyu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">group<\/a>, <a title=\"Dear Oklahoma: Satanists don\u2019t actually believe in Satan\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/01\/11\/dear-oklahoma-satanists-dont-actually-believe-in-satan\/\" target=\"_blank\">unlike most &#8220;devil worshippers,<\/a>&#8221; appear to actually take this quite seriously (go listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/08\/24\/black-mass-revisited\/\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with the group&#8217;s leader<\/a> by my friend Damion). I have a hard time believing, though, that they were as serious as the protestors that showed up.<\/p>\n<p>My buddy Brian (who has <a title=\"GPS reviews\u2026\u201dUnstoppable\u201d featuring Kirk Cameron\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2013\/09\/28\/gps-reviews-unstoppable-featuring-kirk-cameron\/\" target=\"_blank\">written<\/a> for GPS before and makes <a title=\"Who Nik Wallenda was really talking to during Skywire\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2013\/06\/27\/who-nik-wallenda-was-really-talking-to-during-skywire\/\" target=\"_blank\">awesomely funny videos<\/a>) and I decided to take a video camera and go see exactly what these protestors thought they were protesting. The results were, to say the least, surprising. The full story is in the below video.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/sj6hH15BDTE<\/p>\n<p>For more local coverage of the Black Mass protests, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/mandestroysgod.com\/index.php\/blog\/10-ok-black-mass-2014\" target=\"_blank\"><em>OK Black Mass 2014<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/apollosbrain.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/the-only-thing-missing-was-cotton-candy.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Only Thing Missing was the Cotton Candy<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made a video about the protestors at the recent Oklahoma City Black Mass. You should watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,15,86,14],"tags":[611,609,613,610,76,608,47,445,612],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiracy","category-humor","category-religion","category-skepticism","tag-angra-mainyu","tag-black-mass","tag-catholic","tag-dahkma","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-protest","tag-satan","tag-satanist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}