Satanic 'black mass' gets green light from U.S. city
Concerns mount about
'dark powers that this invites into our community'
The Catholic Archbishop of Oklahoma City has
agreed to drop a lawsuit against a satanic cult that plans to perform a “black
mass” in the city now that the cult has returned a stolen consecrated host to
the church.
An Oklahoma-based satanic group
called Dakhma of Angra Mainyu has leased space in
the Civic Center Music Hall, which is owned and operated by the city, for a
black mass on Sept. 21.
The event is booked for the Cityspace theater, which is the
facility’s smallest theater space, said Jennifer McClintock, public information
officer for the Civic Center.
She told WND the city will not block the black mass from
being held despite an uproar among Christian and family groups, which are
mobilizing to stop it.
“All activities during the event must abide by our local
ordinances and laws, including laws that govern nudity, lewd acts, ritual
sacrifice, as well as building codes for open flames,” McClintock said in an
email to WND. “The Civic Center Music Hall is not underwriting this event in
any way, nor paying for outside advertising. Individuals wishing to attend must
purchase a ticket to get in.”
The Catholic Archdiocese has come out strongly against the
satanists’ plans and filed a lawsuit earlier this month to stop the cult from
using a stolen consecrated Host for its service, calling it a “sacrilege” that
is offensive to all Christians. Satanists typically defile a Catholic host,
used to celebrate Holy Communion, during their black services.
Archbishop Paul Coakley has made repeated requests for the
city’s leaders to cancel the satanic ritual in a publicly funded facility.
“I have raised my concerns … and pointed out how deeply
offensive this proposed sacrilegious act is to Christians and especially to the
more than 250,000 Catholics who live in Oklahoma,” Coakley said in an Aug. 21
statement.
WND has reported that another satanic group, the Satanic Temple
based in New York, had planned to hold a black mass on the campus of Harvard
University in May. But that event was canceled after an onslaught of public
outrage followed national media attention. The Archdiocese of Boston also
fought that event.
And the Catholics are not the only group expressing outrage
about the prospect of a black mass being held in the public civic center of a
Bible Belt town like Oklahoma City.
Harry Mihet, vice president of legal affairs and chief
litigation counsel for Liberty Counsel, said Oklahoma City should not allow its
public facilities to be “used by a satanic group for the sole purpose of
mocking, insulting and offending other faiths through a lewd and lascivious
ceremony. The perverted sexual deviance characteristic of a ‘black mass’ ought
to remain in the dark tombs and catacombs where it originated, and should not
see the light of day in a civilized society, much less on public property.”
TFP started Aug. 13 with a goal of 50,000 petition signers and already has garnered 67,000. It has now raised the goal to 100,000. “Your petition, together with many more, will be presented to the Civic Center, as well as the Mayor of Oklahoma City and the Governor of Oklahoma before September 21,” the site says.
“Please spread the word to all your friends so we can stop
this sacrilege,” the TFP message continues. “Your voice and prayers were
decisive at Harvard University – the ‘Black Mass’ there was stopped.
Canceled. Saint Michael won a great victory that day. And God can win again.”
Travis Weber, director of the Center for Religious Liberty
at the Family Research Council, said the event in Oklahoma City smacks of a
publicity stunt.
“The Harvard one was canceled. And it looks like this
Oklahoma one there was a consecrated host that was stolen and now has been
returned. Even if one of these did go ahead, obviously it’s concerning, but we
want to be careful about limiting the religious expression under the law,”
Weber told WND. “But it’s unfortunate there is an attempt to push this, with
all the horrors of the world today, you would think people would want to
glorify the Lord and seek him instead of the devil.
“It seems like every other day there’s a school shooting and
you’ve got an American who has traveled to Iraq to fight with ISIS and yet this
group has decided to go ahead and celebrate a black mass instead of seeking
God’s help,” he continued.
The “black mass” ceremony has traditionally been performed by satanic cults to mock the Catholic Church’s celebration of the Holy Eucharist.
Dakhma of Angra Mainyu clearly celebrates “the destroyer” in
its description of its beliefs on its website.
It promotes itself as “a religious and educational church
dedicated to Angra Mainyu. Angra Mainyu is seen as a destroyer. This is coming
from an ancient Middle Easterner and Indian perspective of the principle of
creation through the destruction. … Systems and structures must be dismantled
so that new life can be born.”
Weber said such views, while abhorrent, are to be pitied
more than anything else.
“We need to remember to speak the truth in love, and this
means that there is a sense of sympathy for the people who are caught up in
this evil. Yet there is still the matter of speaking the truth and opposing any
invitation for the devil to be involved in public events and the public square
of our nation, which this is an attempt to do,” he said.
Weber said Christians can support the First Amendment
without supporting every group’s message.
“Even legally speaking, one could argue that this is not
what the founders had in mind when they had written the free exercise of
religion into the amendment, but first and foremost people should let their
opposition be known, primarily by standing up and saying, hey, with all the
problems going on the world why this now? Why do we want this for our
community?”
TFP says it has had success with online petitions in the
past. In fact, YouTube yanked dozens of videos showing desecration of the Holy
Eucharist thanks to a TFP petition signed by 18,200 Catholics, and Notre Dame
finally dropped the charges against 88 pro-lifers, in part, because of more
than 20,000 petitions sent to Fr. John Jenkins.
But the city appears intent on treating the satanists the same as any other group.
“The Civic Center Music Hall is a public facility which has
been owned and operated by the City of Oklahoma City since 1936. Our purpose is
to rent spaces for private and ticketed events,” McClintock told WND. “Any
group wishing to rent spaces with us may do so as long as they pay the stated
rental fees and adhere to the ordinances and laws of the city of Oklahoma City
and state of Oklahoma, per their contract with us. No taxpayer dollars are used
to underwrite these events.”
“As a government-operated facility, we must abide by the
laws of our state and of the United States, including the U.S. Constitution and
its First Amendment,” she continued. “Per federal law, we cannot consider or
judge the event content of groups who wish to rent our facilities. In this, we
are guided by our legal obligations as advised by our municipal counselor’s
office.”
The Archdiocese had sued the satanic cult earlier this month
when the head satanist stated publicly that he planned to conduct a full black
mass, which includes the desecration and defiling of the Holy Eucharist, using
the consecrated host.
Late last week an attorney for the satanist group returned a
consecrated host to the Oklahoma City Archdiocese, so no consecrated host will
be used in the event.
“I am relieved that we have been able to secure the return
of the sacred host, and that we have prevented its desecration as part of a
planned satanic ritual,” said Coakley in a statement. “I remain concerned about
the dark powers that this satanic worship invites into our community and the
spiritual danger that this poses to all who are involved in it, directly or
indirectly.”
On Sept. 21, the day in which the satanic ritual is
scheduled to take place, Coakley has invited the Catholic community as well as
“all Christians and people of good will” to join him in prayer for a
Eucharistic Holy Hour at 3 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1901 NW 18 in
Oklahoma City, followed by an outdoor procession and benediction.
“For more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide, the Mass is the most sacred of religious rituals,” the archbishop said. “It is the center of Catholic worship and celebrates Jesus Christ’s redemption of the world by his death and resurrection. We are grateful for the gift of the Eucharist and pray that this threatened sacrilege will heighten our appreciation and deepen our faith in the Lord’s Eucharistic presence among us.”
With the return of the host and an accompanying signed
statement from the satanic group leader that the group no longer possesses a
consecrated host, nor will they use a consecrated host in their rituals, the
archbishop agreed to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice.
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