The flier
carried satanic images including pentagrams and goat skulls and listed
activities that would be performed, such as a "Bible torching ceremony"
with a $25 prize for the "C.U.N.T. sucker" who brings in the most Bibles
and a "Pentagram completion event" intended to "summon Baphomet to
celebrate the new Clemson Chapel," according to the college news website
Campus Reform.
The flyer claimed that the Clemson Collegiate Farm Bureau will provide the lamb.
However,
the Bureau's Director of College Relations Kirby Player denied the
claim, saying the Bureau would "absolutely not" be providing any animals
for ritual slaughter, Campus Reform said.
Students took to social media to express outrage over the Satanic ceremony.
"I
ain't trying to be nowhere near Clemson this weekend," reads one of the
tweets. "I knew I chose the wrong school," said another.
The
Cadden Chapel on the campus is named after a student, Samuel J. Cadden,
who died in an automobile accident in 2015. The names of over 600
students who passed away before graduating will also be engraved at the
chapel as a tribute, according to Blacklisted News.
The $6 million
chapel will be open to students of all or no religious beliefs for
meditation and reflection, and will also function as a wedding or
funeral venue on campus, seating up to 150 people.
Satanic activists being on campuses is not uncommon.
Last March, Colorado's Delta County School District
said administration
policies don't allow it to prevent atheist groups from carrying on with
their plan to place secular and satanic literature in school libraries.
The
Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers and the Freedom From
Religion Foundation placed their literature on a table in middle school
and high school libraries, in response to the distribution of Gideon
Bibles at the schools.
"Elves, unicorns, gods, leprechauns,
angels, fairies, ghosts, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy. … All of these
mythological creatures have served a function in the human mind," read a
brochure. "Gods were invented to explain natural phenomenon, like
thunder and lightening. … They teach children that Jesus Christ was
nailed to a cross because of 'your sins and deceitful heart.' These
programs are designed to shame and terrify children into submission and
silence, and teach them not to ask questions…" they claimed.