The Satanic Case for Catholicism

Aleteia ^ | May 13, 2014 | Joe Heschmeyer

[NYer]

Have you noticed a lack of Satanists mocking the worship of Hindus, Jews, Muslims, or even Protestants?

The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club was planning on hosting a Black Mass (a Satanic mockery of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass). They originally announced they would be desecrating a consecrated Host during this “service.”

Now the group responsible for the Black Mass is claiming that they don't have a Host, because “we respect all religions and don’t want anyone to feel offended. We understand the powerful role that the Eucharist plays in the Christian religion and in no way want to appear as though we don’t respect your traditions.”

My first reaction was that this was a perfect image of 21st century academia: they want to perform a Satanic Black Mass without offending anyone. But upon further reflection, it occurs to me that this is a powerful case for Catholicism. Think about it this way:


The Eucharist Is Either Jesus or Evil

As I pointed out last month, the Eucharist is either Jesus or mere bread and wine. If the Eucharist is Jesus, everyone should be at Mass, worshipping Our Lord. If the Eucharist is Jesus, there should be no such thing as Protestantism, Mormonism, Islam, atheism, etc. But if the Eucharist isn't Jesus, then for two thousand years, the would-be followers of Jesus Christ were actually idolaters. If that's the case, nobody should be Catholic.

So those are the stakes. Everyone who encountered Jesus of Nazareth was faced with a crucial question: is this God, in some mysterious guise, or not? The early Christians called this “the aut Deus aut malus homo” (“either God or a bad man”). Everyone encountering the Eucharist is faced with the same question: either God or idolatry.

And of course, if the Eucharist is pagan idolatry, it's demonic. As 1 Corinthians 10:20 says, “what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God.” The whole world hangs on this point: is the Eucharist Jesus or an idol? Is the Sacrifice of the Mass being offered to God, or to demons?


Satan Hates the Eucharist

The satanic Black Mass is a ritual inversion (and mockery) of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass performed by Satanists. Now, there are two types of Satanists: “LaVey Satanists,” and “theological Satanists.” The Satanic Temple folks behind tonight's Black Mass are LaVey Satanists. In other words, they're atheists who don't believe in Satan, and use “Satanism” as a tool to harass and provoke Christians (unlike“theological Satanists,” who believe in Satan and worship him). This whole thing, like the satanic monument in Oklahoma, is a deliberate provocation and an attention-seeking measure. But whether the practitioners are playing at the occult, or serious, there's no question that they're tapping into some seriously dark spiritual forces. Satan is at work here.

 

And it worth pointing out that when Satanists (of both kind) want to mock a religious ritual, you can bet that it's going to by the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that they target. How often do you hear about Muslim or Hindu or Jewish (or even Protestant) services being subjected to such intense Satanic mockery? 

 

Nor is this Satanic targeting of the Mass anything new. As far back as the fourth century, St. Epiphanius of Salamis described a sect of Gnosticism performing a perverted mockery of Mass. I won't go into the details, but it was graphic enough that the members of this sect became known as “Borborians” (“filthy ones”).


Satan Doesn't Drive Out Satan
 

So the Eucharist is either Jesus or evil (since if it's not Jesus, it's idolatry) and since the devil hates the Eucharist, we can cross “evil” off the list. For some additional Biblical support, consider  Matthew 12:22-28:

Then a blind and dumb demoniac was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw. And all the people were amazed, and said, “Can this be the Son of David?” But when the Pharisees heard it they said, “ It is only by Be-el′zebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.” Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “ Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand; and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand? And if I cast out demons by Be-el′zebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

This passage is important: it shows, for example, that Catholic exorcists are operating by the Spirit of God when  they drive out demons. But it also means that if Satan hates the Mass, we can be sure that the Mass isn't evil.

 

Of course, if the Mass  isn't demonic, if it  isn't idolatry, that really only leaves one option: that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ, and that the Sacrifice of the Mass is presenting Jesus to the Father. This (and as far as I can tell, this alone), accounts for the Satanic mockery.

Even if the  only thing you knew about Catholicism was that its central form of worship, the Mass, was the target of Satanic ire, you would already have good reason to believe that Catholicism was the true religion. But taken with all of the other evidence for the truth that the Eucharist is Jesus, that the Mass is a Sacrifice instituted by God, and that the Catholic Church is the Church founded by Christ, Satan is just one more (unwitting) witness for the truth of Jesus Christ and His Church.

[NYer]

Ping!

[miss marmelstein]

I have satanic “Mass” and magic circle texts - they don't go after Protestant religions - why bother? The texts go after Judaism and Catholicism.

[MNDude]

I’m Protestant, but this is a pretty interesting commentary.

[Beowulf9]

Yes, I’ve often considered this aspect. Good to point it out, though:)

[livius]

Don’t misunderstand...this is not meant to insult Protestants, but the fact is, when anybody wants to attack Christianity, they know that attacking the Catholic Church is the way to do it. It’s the source of the Faith and the most visible part of the Body of Christ, and that’s why they attack it.

[mlizzy]

As Padre Pio said:

It would be easier for the world to exist without the sun than without the Holy Mass [the Eucharist].

Good article, NYer. Thanks!

[Iscool]

Everyone encountering the Eucharist is faced with the same question: either God or idolatry.

I wasn't faced with that question in front of the Eucharist...I was questioned as to whether it was God or fakery...And I along with the majority of Catholics deem it to be fakery...

Actually those who are claiming it is God are committing idolatry...

And as discussed in the article, the group putting on this ordeal are atheists or people who think they are atheists...Has nothing to do with Satan...They are trying to take an anti-Christian stance and are attacking the religion which calls itself the one, true religion...

It's as simple as that...

[FourtySeven]

Good post.

[Gamecock]

One syncretic religion borrowing from another.

[Faith Presses On]

I certainly believe that Jesus’ words “this is My body” and “this is My blood” are more than just words. Words are just words when mere men speak from themselves, but not when God speaks. And Jesus was referring to bread and wine when speaking those words. But given everything in the Bible and then considering Catholicism with it, including the Mass, it’s a religion with rites and rituals. And like a religion with a false god, somehow the Catholic Eucharist had to be protected from the abominable unbelievers while the real Jesus didn’t.

Something else to keep in mind are Jesus’ words to “do this in remembrance of Me,” which I recently heard is Jesus’ fulfilment of Passover, which was also to be done in remembrance.

[verga]

Have you noticed a lack of Satanists mocking the worship of Hindus, Jews, Muslims, or even Protestants?<

The first three are possibly covered under invincible ignorance. as far as a number of the last group that we have seen here on FR, he already has them and they are just to stupid to see it. May God have mercy on them all. I know that I wouldn't

[verga]

And I along with the majority of Catholics deem it to be fakery...

And of course you offer no documentation for this absurd claim. You do know that When the Priest offer the Eucharist, He says "The Body of Christ." When you say "Amen" You are agreeing with that.

[RichInOC]

[Jane Long]

That gif is hilarious. I may have to borrow that one ;)

[narses]

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[Faith Presses On]

Something else to keep in mind, too, is that all humans live in Jesus’ presence, as Paul told the people of Athens. “It is in Him that we live and move and exist,” (Acts 17, Catholic Online). Jesus also said in John 6 that eternal life was is in His words and the flesh profited nothing. Jesus addressed His words about eating His flesh and drinking His blood to those who followed Him for earthly bread, and the effect of them, as He knew already, was to separate those who truly wanted to follow Him, including among His disciples, from those who didn’t.
Something else about the Catholic Church is how little those in it know of the Bible, and how little they want to or believe they should share their faith. Polls have found both to be very low. And this is a question I haven’t been able to find an answer to: does the Catholic Church work in miss
ions now, particularly by going into areas where the people don’t know of Jesus? There are still thousands of people groups without any knowledge of Jesus (Cont’d)

[Faith Presses On]

(cont’d) who need to hear the Gospel and to have God’s Word in their own language.

[Iscool]

And of course you offer no documentation for this absurd claim.

Documentation has been posted numerous times...

You do know that When the Priest offer the Eucharist, He says "The Body of Christ." When you say "Amen" You are agreeing with that.

Not necessarily...You are telling someone, perhaps the person next to you that you are agreeing with it...Doesn't make it so...

[boatbums]

As I pointed out last month, the Eucharist is either Jesus or mere bread and wine. If the Eucharist is Jesus, everyone should be at Mass, worshipping Our Lord. If the Eucharist is Jesus, there should be no such thing as Protestantism, Mormonism, Islam, atheism, etc. But if the Eucharist isn't Jesus, then for two thousand years, the would-be followers of Jesus Christ were actually idolaters. If that's the case, nobody should be Catholic. So those are the stakes. Everyone who encountered Jesus of Nazareth was faced with a crucial question: is this God, in some mysterious guise, or not? The early Christians called this “the aut Deus aut malus homo” (“either God or a bad man”). Everyone encountering the Eucharist is faced with the same question: either God or idolatry.

Why does the author leave out that the "Eucharist" - meaning Thanksgiving - WAS the ordinance followed with the fellowship of Christians to remember the sacrifice of Jesus for all sins and as a recognition of fellow believers as comprising the "body of Christ"? The Gnostics denied that Jesus even HAD a physical body, so whatever they did within their "worship" was not according to how the Apostles taught and led their new believers.

Just as I already said in another thread, Roman Catholics HAVE to make the subject of the Lord's Supper ordinance a matter of "we are right and everyone else is wrong, SO we must be the true church". The bread and wine of the observance IS bread and wine which represents the actual, physical flesh and blood Jesus said was broken and shed for our sins. The eating and drinking of which is a public testimony of a genuine faith IN Christ. The Mass is no more a making present of the once-for-all sacrifice offered to God than every baptism is a reenactment of Noah and the flood - where souls in the ark were saved from the waters.

It's kinda sad when Roman Catholics need to use Satanic rituals - admittedly designed to offend and mock them - to assert it proves Catholicism MUST be the right thing. These people mock ALL Christians, because we all believe in Jesus Christ who bled and died for our sins. You guys don't get to copyright the name, nor the Savior.