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To: alt.satanism From: xeper@aol.com (Dr. Michael A. Aquino) Subject: FAQ: Craig "Mr. Scratch" Hunt Date: 03 Dec 2002 19:00:12 GMT FAQ: CRAIG "MR. SCRATCH" HUNT ON ALT.SATANISM - by Michael A. Aquino as of 12/1/2002 [The following FAQ is provided to alt.satanism, and to persons who may ask me about Hunt, as a response to and explanation concerning Hunt's continuing defamations and distortions. Further attempts at provocation by him or anyone else will continue to be ignored. I will simply repost this FAQ as seems necessary from time to time.] * * * * * From 1990 to 2000 Craig Hunt was an [uncomplaining] member of the Temple of Set, and from 1998 to 2000 was an [equally uncomplaining] Priest of Set in the Temple. At the Temple's International Conclave in 2000, Hunt drove Scott Locklin to the Conclave hotel, thus compromising the privacy of Setians to an individual with a longstanding hatred of the Temple and individual Setians. Though he has since maintained that his taking Locklin to the hotel was "just accidental", Hunt concealed this compromise from any Temple official at the time. The Temple learned of the incident only because one of its senior members happened to see them arrive and recognized Locklin. At its next meeting the Temple of Set's board of directors, upon recommendation by High Priest Don Webb, unanimously decided that Hunt's compromise of the Conclave, concealment of the compromise, and continuing socializing with an individual who has for many years conducted a hate campaign of vulgarity and malicious falsehoods against the Temple and individual Setians, was unacceptable for a Setian and particularly for a Priest of Set. [I was present at this meeting, but did not speak and was not a voting member of the board. For the record, I think the board members considered and discussed the matter carefully and dispassionately, and I personally do agree with its unanimous decision.] Since then Hunt has embarked on an aggressive campaign on alt.satanism to distort and denounce almost every aspect of the Temple of Set generally, and - presumably because I posted an earlier account of these events to the newsgroup in response to his disinformation - Michael Aquino as well. Despite all of the sand Hunt continues to try to throw in the faces of newsgroup readers, the simple fact remains that during his entire decade-long membership in the Temple, and his two years as a Priest of Set, he *never once* made the slightest such criticism of any aspect of the Temple’s design, programs, or leadership. And particularly as a Priest of Set, he had ample opportunity to do so. And of course he did not resign from the Temple as a matter of protest or principle, but was unanimously and involuntarily expelled from it by its High Priest and board of directors. It seems apparent, particularly as Hunt continues to style himself "Priest of Set" in his newsgroup posts, that he is either honestly insensitive to the reasoning by which he was expelled, or simply does not have the integrity to confront and acknowledge it. Either way it is no longer the Temple of Set's business to judge him, though it was the Temple’s business to separate itself from him. Alt.Satanism readers are invited to remember these simple facts when encountering Hunt's “born again”, so to speak, tirades against the Temple.
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