Does anybody else find it interesting that the University president is named Faust?
Posted on 05/12/2014 11:11:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Ivy League continually sinks to shockingly low depths, but the latest news is particularly chilling. Today, the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club will host the Satanic Temple group as it reenacts a “Black Mass” on Harvard’s main campus.
Just what is a “black mass”? Said to have been created in the Middle Ages by those who practiced witchcraft, the black mass is a Catholic Mass, except inverted — for example, Communion bread is desecrated and mocked. As for the New York–based Satanic Temple, it is the same group that recently proposed erecting a large statue of the devil beside an existing Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma.
The Harvard student group is standing by its decision to host the event, stating: “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.”
Pardon me, but “our purpose is not to denigrate any religion or faith”? The entire purpose of a black mass is to denigrate the Catholic faith. Do they no longer teach basic-level thinking at Harvard?
As Yahoo! reports, the Archdiocese of Boston is calling on its faithful to pray for those involved and on Harvard to disassociate itself from the event. It says that such 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.”
Some media reports have been quick to downplay the controversy, with the New York Daily News almost mocking the Archdiocese’s concerns, writing: “All this talk about Satan has spooked the Catholic Church.”
The Satanic Temple’s spokesperson, who goes by “Lucien Graeves” (of course his name would be Lucien — I had at least three friends named Lucien in my goth days), spoke to the Daily News, stating that the black mass is meant to be educational and is not a supernatural ritual (adding he is an “atheist”).
The Daily News continues with a “nothing to see here, folks” tone, writing: “This makes The Satanic Temple’s activities more of a political statement than a cohesive religious ritual.”
But is this event really just political and not at all “religious”? The Satanic Temple describes itself as an “organized religion.” Will not this black mass incorporate language, symbolism, and artifacts of undeniable religious significance?
And if the Harvard group’s purpose is purely one of exploring political “disruption” or social radicalism from an educational standpoint, it raises the question: Would an event mocking Islamic beliefs ever be similarly hosted? We all know the answer.
Given the seminary origins of Harvard, and its early motto of Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae (“Truth for Christ and the Church”), how far has this nation sunk when this event is held on Harvard’s own grounds?
— A. J. Delgado is a conservative writer and lawyer.
The antichrist, commie rock sucker did graduate from Harvard. No surprise it would honor his master.
Skull and Bones didoes!! The Bush clan must love this!! Hell, on second thought, they may be behind it.
I am waiting for the Satanic prayers and Muslim prayers to begin showing up all over the place now that the Supreme Court has ruled that prayers are allowed.
“...but instead to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices.”
Ah-huh. Chances are that, like the modern pagan movement, etc., the dogma/doctrine of this black mass “church” is made up of a mix of teen gothiness, snotty poseurism, and apocryphal mythology. In other words, a bunch of made up nonsense with no moral/philosophical underpinnings. Hardly worthy of the term “cultural practice”, except as evidence of debasement of one.
So yeah, Harvard really sucks here.
I hope the honoree shows up....
Does anybody else find it interesting that the University president is named Faust?
Many colleges already host Muslim brotherhood al quaida or other islamoNazi clubs and speakers Some even teach that it’s morally equivalent or even superior to Biblical traditions. So what’s the diff if they want to start holding black masses... satan is alive and well on these campuses already. What these colleges need is a good house cleaning. A very good one. Meanwhile, don’t donate your children or money to these anti-Christian, anti-Americsn, anti-Jewish islamonazis or islamoNazi-fellow-travelers. That’s the least we can do in protecting ourselves. There’s a big difference between a free speech ethic on campus and letting the enemy turn our schools into their satanic indoctrination, propaganda, or recruiting centers.
I think I’m getting the stories of Faust and Dorian Grey mixed up. Unless they are essentially one and the same.
I’m glad there will be a counter-mass, based on holiness.
Satanic and muslim prayers, isn’t that the same thing...?
One can help but to wonder just how much further this country can fall...
Evil creates more evil. Many colleges love it.
For quite some time and several times on this forum I have written I believe that many of these so called liberal leaders are really Satanic Worshippers, since their drive ‘forward’ seems always to embody satanic ideas, the liberal notion of sex, the way the ACLU protects certain ‘freedoms’.
Even though, I’m kind of speechless after reading this.
Hollywood must be in 7th Hell.
What’s the big deal? Satan’s been running Harvard for the last hundred years. That’s why our ruling elites send their spawn there.
Well, those offended include Harvard University president Drew Faust, who called it “abhorrent”
But it seems even the University President can’t or won’t do anything about it.
I'm sure Wilde had Faust in mind, but that story is much older. Goethe's version is the best known, but it was written long after the tale began making the rounds - some time in the 14th or 15th centuries.
if he stopped it he would be bucking the world's ruling elite and that would more than likely lead him to a sudden and fatal health issue
I like this idea; evil has come out of the closet. It has never been easier to identify the enemies of Christ than it is today; they’ve got all their warning flags out.
I hope the honoree shows up....
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He is already in their midst, I am sure.
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