Posted on 05/12/2014 6:00:39 PM PDT by narses
Cambridge, Mass., May 12, 2014 / 06:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A satanic black mass re-enactment being planned by a student group at Harvard University has been ‘postponed indefinitely’ and will not take place May 12.
The news was announced by the school’s newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, just over an hour before the event was scheduled to occur May 12.
Originally, the black mass re-enactment was to take place on campus, at a pub in the basement of Memorial Hall. The Harvard Crimson reported late on the afternoon of May 12 that the event had voluntarily been moved to The Middle East nightclub, a short distance from campus. However, shortly afterward, the general manager of the nightclub told the publication that negotiations had fallen through and the event would not be hosted there.
Subsequently, in a breaking news update at 7:45 p.m. Eastern time, the publication reported that the black mass “has been postponed indefinitely and will not take place tonight, according to (a) Satanic Temple spokesperson.”
Connected to witchcraft and demonic worship, a black mass is a sacrilegious ceremony structured as a parody of the Catholic Mass. Invoking Satan, the ritual is centered around the desecration of the Eucharist, which is generally done by stealing a consecrated host from a Catholic church and using it in a profane sexual ritual, or defecating and urinating on it.
A spokesperson for The Satanic Temple, which is staging the event, initially told media outlets that a consecrated host would be used, although the temple and the Cultural Studies Club both later denied this, insisting that only a plain piece of bread would be used.
The plans for the black mass had drawn strong opposition from the Archdiocese of Boston, along with many students, alumni and members of the broader Catholic community.
Harvard senior Aurora Griffin told CNA that she presented university president Drew Faust with petitions against the event that had garnered more than 60,000 signatures.
In her cover letter, Griffin explained that the event does not promote an appreciation for cultural understanding, but instead ”promotes contempt for the Catholic faith,” adding that “supporters of genuine tolerance and civility are rightly offended and outraged that Harvard has permitted such an event.”
Dr. Faust had released a statement May 12 condemning the event as “flagrantly disrespectful and inflammatory,” and the club’s decision to hold it as “abhorrent.” However, she stated that the ceremony would be allowed to continue due to the university’s “commitment to free expression.”
Faust had said that as a sign of respect, she would attend a Eucharistic Holy Hour being held by the Catholic community at Harvard in response to the black mass.
Jim McGlone, a junior at Harvard, told CNA while he was “glad” to see the university president use “the strongest language possible” to condemn the event, he disagreed that all speech and expression should be protected in a university setting, given the fundamentally offensive nature of the event.
“It’s too much of a desecration of our Lord and a mockery and parody of our Faith,” he said, to be “an attempt at dialogue – it’s really just an obscenity.”
Rather than merely offering a safe haven for all kinds of offensive speech, he continued, the purpose of free speech is “getting at the truth through discourse,” among people who may have disagreements.
Freshman Bella Gomez told CNA that rather than using freedom of speech and religion to make Harvard a “safer welcoming community for all,” Catholic students “are being solely victimized by it.”
She said she felt “uncomfortable” at the idea of entering campus facilities that had been used for a satanic ritual, indicating that the space would “no longer feel comfortable or safe” for her.
The Cultural Studies Club had defended the black mass re-enactment as educational and dismissed critics as demonstrating a close-minded “paranoia.” The group had told CNA that those offended by the event hold outdated views “based on intolerance and ignorance,” which are “arrogant and egocentric.”
Your second statement answered your question. End times.
I thought the Drudge Report said the Satanic Temple would take on this desecration at some date, but then this is surely a regular event for them. I, maybe, read through the report too fast, but it is not over as far as the Temple is concerned, but brings the attention, bouncing off the publicity of the Harvard “study club”.
Oh don’t get me wrong. It is still evil and wrong in every way possible. But It isn’t a real Black mass.
People miss this and it is important. It is one thing for a non christian to look at a communion wafer being desecrated and call it a cultural religious difference. It is quite another to recognize and accept human sacrifice.
Thus it is easier to make Satanism ‘just another faith of many’ over what the world views as a piece of bread. Not so with a baby/child being decapped with a knife.
But killing that innocent, killing/corrupting what God holds most dear, is a part of the truth of the Satanic Black Mass and the ‘faith’ of Satanism.
And then there’s what they do BEFORE killing the innocent.
This is falling into the same river of whine as liberals do... oh, our folks aren’t privileged enough.
It's all symbolic actions that have real effect. But today it's trivial to kill a baby: just take a pill on scene - it's legal. Besides, one can kill a chicken, or a mouse - the audience does not need to see it, but it will be done nevertheless.
However in the larger picture it does not matter how far they go this time because there will be the next time, and the time after that... and eventually every performance of this sort will involve a ritual killing of an animal. The audience will be ready for that; no, not just ready - the audience will be expecting that.
My point was that a group that prides itself on ‘free expression’ sure seems to lean liberal.
If that was your point too, I was too dense to see it :)
I agree. Wait until they get to the sodomy part during the sacrifice. Perhaps then the audience/general public will notice something a bit ‘extreme’.
I doubt this is the first time such a thing has either been mimed or actually carried out on these shores either. People act as though it was “the devil came down to the USA” when he’s been dancing around here nonstop already.
For whatever it’s worth (wroth?) even Harvard didn’t dream this one up. A crazy group decided to see if they could hitch off the Harvard name, and even Harvard’s president told them to take a hike.
Since a Harvard slogan is “To hell with Yale” then why didn’t they suggest the “reenactment” to be at their rival?
I guess if Bill Gates is as conservative as one gets, sure, but again be careful not to fall into the river of whine.
Demonic titillation doesn’t find a stopping place until it runs head on into God.
There have been black masses in constant ‘use’ since the pilgrims landed. Hollywood was infamous for it back in the early days among the ‘elite’. Plenty of info about it and documented. Plenty of rumor too.
This is just the first time someone took it out of the back rooms/mansions and put it in peoples faces as something real.
And it would be ersatz... my doubt-o-meter is going off big time about this being the first ersatz black Mass that showed its face to the public. I mean that would be considered downright TAME today.
And anyhow what would be an evangelical equivalent? Doing something rude to a bible? The evangelical segment of Christendom has, at least, kept Christendom from getting too full of itself on these shores.
Well, when was the last time you saw one advertized on news shows/newspapers? Discusses by talking heads? What I am saying is that this is a full frontal push.
Sure they have been around. I said that. But not so openly or in a favorable light.
Maybe I misread it, but I gather that the Satanic Temple is in New York. I imagine they have Black Masses of one kind or another, and I wish they didn’t exist, but at least they aren’t involving numerous other people in their monstrous doings.
I wasn’t clear when I read the article whether they hope to find some place to have a Black Mass in the Boston area, or whether they will return to New York for it.
I thought about doing a Google search for Satanic Temple, but decided not to—I really don’t want to get anywhere near those people.
I’m not whining. I could care less about who Ivy League commencement speakers are. I’m just saying that their ‘commitment to free expression’ is almost exclusively left wing. In other words, it’s bogus.
There is an equivalent to a Black Mass inside christianity? What/where are you going with this? I am confused.
I’m thinking that surely there have been theater companies that would do this. If they will put on other trash, why would they stop at an ersatz you know what.
I mean, playing off of evangelical practices... not “WITHIN” Christianity. I hope the obvious is obvious.
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