San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, an Episcopalian church, hosted what it called a “Beyoncé Mass” on Wednesday night — in a shameless attempt to draw fans to worship at the altar of Beyoncé, who is known for promoting far-Left causes, along with her rapper husband, music mogul Jay-Z.

The cathedral staff estimated that over 900 people came to the celebration of the “traditional service using the music and social philosophy of the pop star,” reported the San Francisco Chronicle.

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“I heard about it about a week ago and was intrigued,” Devin Daniels, 28, of San Francisco told that publication. “I’ve followed Beyoncé forever and was of course revved up to come tonight by her recent Coachella performance.”

In her ever-present message of female “empowerment,” Beyoncé is known for spewing lewd and even vitriolic lyrics — though you’d never hear her fans or the fawning mainstream media describe them that way. As adored as she is, Queen Bey is held to a different standard from the rest of us.

The blasphemous event included Beyonce’s music along with Bible readings, prayers, and Communion.

The contrast in content couldn’t be more stark.

Reverend Yolanda Norton, who presided over the Mass, said the event was misunderstood. “There’s been pushback. There has been a misunderstanding about what we’re doing and even from people in the church,” she told The New York Times prior to the event. “But this is about bringing people together, not pulling them apart.”

What?

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Lyrics from Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” album are hardly about pulling people together — the opposite is true, actually. Her lyrics are divisive and, in many cases, foul and pornographic — as her song “Don’t Hurt Yourself” proves (warning: graphic content there).

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Her songs have also spread an anti-law enforcement message, as her “Formation” performance at the Super Bowl two years ago indicated.

“Beyoncé used [that year’s] Super Bowl to divide Americans by promoting the Black Panthers, and her anti-police message shows how she does not support law enforcement,” said Javier Ortiz In a statement issued by the Miami Fraternal Order of Police.

Still, many can’t resist singing the event’s praises — while exploiting the Bible at the same time.

“I know there are people who will say using Beyoncé is just a cheap way of trying to get people in the church,” the Rev. Jude Harmon, director of something called innovative ministries for Grace Cathedral, told the Chronicle. What else could it be?

“The church is holding the event to use Beyoncé’s music to explore the way she reaches ‘marginalized families,’ following in the grand leftist tradition of liberation theology, that teaches there’s no need to wait for Christ’s kingdom for justice, but rather, Christians should fight for culturally Marxist social justice right here on earth,” according to Elizabeth Johnston, who writes the Activist Mommy blog.

Parents would be better served if they heeded the words instead of Fr. Benedict Kiely, a Catholic priest and founder of Nasarean.org, which is helping the persecuted Christians of the Middle East.

“My advice: Steer clear as if your soul depended on it, which it probably does,” he told LifeZette.

“I’m reminded of the words of an Anglican priest from the 19th century, Dean Inge, who said, ‘The church who marries the spirit of this age will be a widow in the next,'” he added.

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“The American Episcopal Church is rapidly becoming a pagan entity,” Fr. Kiely also said.

Talk about worshipping false gods.

Elizabeth Economou is a former CNBC staff writer and adjunct professor. Follow her on Twitter.

(photo credit, homepage image: Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CC BY-SA 4.0, by Supercarwaar; photo credit, article image: Grace Cathedral, CC BY 2.0, by Michael Fraley)