Harvard hosting Satanic 'Black Mass'
University accused of hypocrisy
for anti-Catholic event
Jerome R. Corsi
NEW YORK – With secularism on the rise in the United States,
Satanists increasingly appear willing to challenge Christians for equal time
and space in the public square, under the rubric of asserting First Amendment
rights of religious freedom.
Now, under the auspices of a
student group, Harvard University is
going to allow a Satanist group from New
York to perform on Monday a Black Mass on campus.
It will take place in the basement
of Memorial Hall, despite strong objections voiced by the Roman Catholic
Church.
“It’s unacceptable,” Bill Donohue,
president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights headquartered
in New York City told WND.
“Harvard would never allow an
anti-gay event on the campus sponsored by an independent student organization
and then have Harvard conclude, ‘Well, that’s the way the student’s feel about
the issue and we believe in academic freedom.’”
Donahue said that if Harvard
doesn’t stop it, the university should at the very least put out a statement
condemning the event.
Donohue said he was particularly
upset because Harvard’s first reaction was to misrepresent the event.
“Leaving aside the in-your-face
assault to the Catholic Church that is being made here, I don’t like it when
people lie,” he said.
“Harvard put out a statement
initially that made it sound like the controversy related to a controversy over
a Buddhist presentation or a Shinto presentation, without mentioning in their
statement that it was the Satanic Temple of New York sponsoring a Black Mass on
the campus,” Donahue said.
He noted that Harvard then “got so
much flack they revised their statement, but they lied again saying the
ceremony was meant to be educational.”
“There’s nothing educational about
allowing Satanists to celebrate a Black Mass any more than it would be to allow
the enemies of Muslims or the enemies of Jews to conduct an anti-Muslim or an
anti-Semitic ceremony on campus,” he said. “How about Holocaust deniers? Is
Harvard going to give them a forum on campus, too?”
The Harvard Cultural Studies Club,
a student group organized under the auspices of the Harvard Extension School,
has invited the Satanic Temple of New York
City to conduct the Black Mass on Monday
at the Queen’s Head Pub, a
student eatery and beer hall located in the basement of Memorial Hall, a
Victorian Gothic structure built north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge in the
1870s to commemorate Harvard students who fought for the Union in the Civil
War.
WND contacted Harvard University
for comment and received no response.
“We are
hosting a reenactment of a historical event known as a Black Mass,” ” the Harvard Extension Cultural
Studies Club said in a press release.
“The performance is designed to be educational and is preceded by a lecture that provides the history, context and origin of the black mass.”
“The performance is designed to be educational and is preceded by a lecture that provides the history, context and origin of the black mass.”
The Harvard statement denied the
Black Mass would include a desecration of a consecrated host, an aspect of the
typical Satanic Black Mass ceremony that is widely seen as an attack on the
Catholic Church in particular.
“While a piece of bread is used in
the reenactment, the performance unequivocally does not include a consecrated
host,” the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club continued.
“Our purpose is not to denigrate
any religion or faith, which would be repugnant to our educational purposes,
but instead to learn and experience the history of different cultural
practices. This performance is part of a larger effort to explore religious
facets that continue to influence contemporary culture.”
Satanic activists
The Satanic Temple of New York
appears particularly determined to promote Satanism under the guise of
supporting the First Amendment.
The
decision of Harvard University to allow the Cultural Studies Club to host a
Satanic Mass on campus follows the continuing request by the
Temple of Satan in New York to install their nearly finished seven-foot statue
of Baphomet cast in bronze in a place of honor on the lawn in front
of the Oklahoma state Capitol, next to a carving of the Ten Commandments that
was erected in 2012.
Satanic Temple of New York unfinished statue of Baphomet intended for Oklahoma
state Capitol grounds
“Should Holocaust deniers, for
instance, be allowed to speak on a college campus?” Donohue asked. “No, they
shouldn’t. But there should be a place in our society where they could speak?
Yes, in New York, places like Madison Square
Garden, Central
Park and the Beacon Theater can be open to anyone to speak. But a
university is about the pursuit of truth.”
Former Harvard student Doug
Mesner, who has changed his name to Lucien Graves in his capacity as a leader
and spokesman for the Satanic Temple of New York, told ABC News that the
efforts to erect the Baphomet statue on the grounds of the Oklahoma state Capitol reflect an effort by the group to “celebrate
our progress as a pluralist nation founded on secular law.”
Graves said: “I would argue that
the message behind our monument speaks more directly to the formation of U.S.
constitutional values than the Ten Commandments possibly could.”
Ryan Kiesel, the executive
director of the ACLU’s Oklahoma state chapter,
which is currently contesting in court the Ten Commandments monument on the Oklahoma state Capitol
grounds, said the monument should be removed, because it violates the
Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
The ACLU has not filed a similar
lawsuit against the Baphomet statue.
“I think that our position is
there shouldn’t be any religious monuments at the state Capitol, that anytime
the government has a monument representing one faith it creates an atmosphere
that is not welcoming to people of all faiths or non-believers,” Kiesel told
the Tulsa World.
“If, at the end of the day, the
Ten Commandments monument is allowed to remain on the Capitol grounds with its
overtly Christian message, then the Satanic Temple’s proposal can’t be rejected
because it is of a different religious viewpoint.”
Archdiocese of Boston objects
On Thursday, the Archdiocese of
Boston asked Harvard to cancel the event, saying in a statement:
“The Catholic community of Boston
expresses its deep sadness and strong opposition to the plan to stage a ‘black
mass’ on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge.”
The archdiocese said that for “the
good of the Catholic faithful and all people, the Church provides clear
teaching concerning Satanic worship.”
“This activity separates people
from God and the human community, it is contrary to charity and goodness, and
it places participants dangerously close to destructive works of evil.”
In response to the Black Mass, the
Boston Archdiocese scheduled a holy hour beginning Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern
Time at St. Paul’s Church in Cambridge.
In its public statement, the
Archdiocese of Boston also referenced Pope Francis’ recent warning that Satan
exists in the 21st Century.
On April
11, speaking in the chapel of the Vatican
guesthouse known as St. Martha’s House, where he resides, the pope discussed Satan’s
temptations of Christ.
“The devil tempted Jesus many
times, and Jesus experienced temptation and persecution throughout his
lifetime,” the pope said, as reported by Vatican
Radio.
Francis warned that all Christians
today must be aware of the reality.
“We too are the target of attacks
by the devil because the spirit of Evil does not want our holiness,” Francis
said. “But look out because the devil is present! The devil is here … even in
the 21st Century! And we must not be naïve, right? We must learn from the
Gospel how to fight against Satan.”
Behind the veil of satire
In an interview published in
Vice.com July 30, 2013, Doug Mesner claimed the members of the
Satanic Temple of New York are Satanists in the traditional sense, who enjoy
using the group in a satirical sense.
“Our very presence as civic-minded
socially responsible Satanists serves to satirize the ludicrous superstitious
fears that the word Satan tends to evoke,” Mesner said.
“The Satanic Temple
was actually conceived of independent from me by a friend and one of his
colleagues,” he continued.
“They envisioned it more as a
‘poison pill’ in the church-state debate. The idea was that Satanists,
asserting their rights and privileges where religious agendas have been
successful in imposing themselves upon public affairs, could serve as a
poignant reminder that such privileges are for everybody, and can be used to
serve an agenda beyond the current narrow understanding of what ‘the’ religious
agenda is.”
The
ability of the Satanists from Satanic Temple of New York to combine sacrilege
and satire in an affront to conventional moral views can be seen in the group’s protest against Westboro Baptist
Church in Topeka, Kansas an unaffiliated church known for its
outlandish protests against homosexuals.
Westboro-Baptists.com, a website
owned and operated by the Satanic Temple of New York, documented a “Pink Mass”
the Satanists performed at the Magnolia Cemetery gravesite in Meridian,
Mississippi, of Catherine Idalette Johnson, the wife of Fred W. Phelps Sr., and
the mother of Fred Phelps Jr., the Westboro founder.
The Satanic Temple of New York
explains on the website the nature of the ceremony performed,
noting, “After a “Pink Mass” has been performed, every time a same sex couple
kisses over the gravesite, the now-gay deceased is said to be pleasured in the
afterlife.”
The group’s website showed
photographs of a lesbian and a homosexual couple kissing over Catherine
Idalette Johnson’s tombstone, commenting that, “Upon completion of the Pink
Mass ceremony, Catherine Johnson is now gay in the afterlife.”
The
website of the Westboro Baptist Church
in Topeka, Kansas, titled “God Hates Fags,” has drawn the ire of the LBGT community. The Southern
Poverty Law Center, an extremist group on the political left, characterized the Westboro
Baptist Church as “arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in
America.”
The Satanic Temple of New York
is also raising money under the Adopt-a-Highway program in New York City.
The group is seeking donations to erect blue-and-white signs “acknowledging the
Satanic Temple as the adopters of the designated
piece of highway, helping promote a message of Satanic civic pride and social
responsibility.”
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