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PRE-FAME
"Warning, Heavy Metal Music contains satanic messages that will kill God in your impressionable teenage minds. As a result, you will be convinced to kill your mom and dad, and eventually, in all act of hopeless, suicidal, 'rock and roll' behaviour [sic], you will kill yourself. Please, burn your records while there is still hope."
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, who signed Manson to his own vanity label Nothing Records, invited Manson onstage during his set to make a couple of remarks and Manson used the stage time to rip up the Book of Mormon and threw it into the audience asking, "Do you let Him [God] run your lives?"When asked about what had transpired at the Salt Lake City show a month later on MTV's Headbangers Ball by host Riki Rachtman, Manson seemed very sheepish about the incident, declining to go into detail and instead citing the band's wish to "promote free thinking and individuality and the right to do what you want to do" as the source of the trouble."… simply a sardonic look at the level of absurdity political correctness has reached and right-wing Christian America's attempt to scapegoat rock 'n' roll for problems that originate within its own masochistic family structure. In short, it is a mirror. Sometimes your own reflection is the hardest thing to face."
MAINSTREAM BREAKTHROUGH
A few years ago, I started having dreams and visions of the world being destroyed, and me being the only one left. It was like an ultimate retribution for all of the things that have happened to me growing up. One dream took place sometime in the future – it may even have been in Fort Lauderdale. Entertainment had gone to such an extreme that they had taken people and made them into zombies almost just for entertainment's sake. And I had this strange vision of these women who were completely brain dead – they were just dancing in cages, and their jaws were wired shut so that they wouldn't bite off the dicks of all these guys that were around them masturbating. It was a complete Sodom and Gomorrah. And then somehow I was there and I was like either presenting the whole event or performing in it or something. That was probably the first appearance of what will be Antichrist Superstar rearing its head."
"My fellow Americans, we will no longer be oppressed by the fascism of Christianity. And we will no longer be oppressed by the fascism of beauty. As I see you all sitting out there trying your hardest not to be ugly, trying your hardest not to fit in, trying your hardest to earn your way into Heaven, but let me ask you—do you want to be in a place that's filled with a bunch of assholes?"
SUBSEQUENT RELEASES
And from the looks of the breadcrumb trail he's left on Instagram, Manson still has a major bone to pick with Christianity at a time when every GOP Senator identifies as Christian, while fewer and fewer Americans do.So as it stands, the stage is set for a comeback. All Manson need do now is to tap into his natural gift for satire as the stars have aligned to give the God of Fuck something actually worthy of screaming about. Here's hoping he's up to the challenge.Alexandra Serio is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer and Capricorn. Follow her on Twitter."It's about the desperate acts of people who believe something that is preached by an unbeliever. Right now we're in such a state of confusion when it comes to religion, politics, sexuality, and how they all tie together, and it's being turned into a circus and a sideshow—and that's something that I've been described as a ringleader of. It seems like a time for me as an artist, and as an American artist, to make something that causes a new set of questions to arise that aren't simply statements."