Posted on 07/16/2008 1:43:16 PM PDT by NYer
“Father forgive them for they know not what they do”.
Sounds like he’s just trying to get more pupils in whatever classroom he occupies. Just looking for attention.
If he were to threaten to desecrate a Moselm holy item, his shoulders would be preparing a nice goodbye letter to his head.
The difference is that if you violate a koran, you may get hurt. You may get a knife in your chest. You may get your head separated from your shoulders.
If you violate the eucharist, you may get your name in the papers. You may get an interview. You may get to brag to your friends and kid yourself if for only a moment that you're important.
And somewhere a few christians will pray for your soul. Maybe even someone close to you, your mom or grandma. Or someone from the church where you've insisted on making a fool of yourself will take it on themselves to start praying you into the kingdom.
Big difference.
Alright. You got your 15 minutes you pathetic loser. A freaking college professor, you define the word “drone”. So go back to your miserable worthless existence. No one will notice when you are gone.
I’ll give you some “crackers” to desecrate if you will give me the opportunity to educate you - in a dark alley.
After all, you mean nothing to me, you’re just a fragging Liberal.
Techically he is right. There is NO POWER in a CRACKER.
The power is Christ. The cracker is just a cracker and SYMBOLIC of His flesh. Nothing changes the cracker. It will always be a cracker.
I was raised and remain a Lutheran and this child obviously is acting out his grievance at being forced to go to church.
The thing to remember is that God in His infinite wisdom and patience understands this child's motives and what drives him. God will judge him and deal with him as appropriate. It is not for us to do so. All we can do is pity the poor child, lost and confused and abandoned by himself.
If he did this to anything Jewish or Moslem, he would be accused of hate speech.
Does anyone remember when a guy was fired from his university positions because, when he was participating in a group joke, he made a noose out of his hoodie drawstring, threatening to hang anyone who didn’t turn their papers in on time? (Everyone else in the room was saying the same thing, they just didn’t use the words hanging or make a little noose).
I say this man should be prosecuted for a hate crime. I don’t believe in them, but heck, they never listened to me over other cases, so what sauce for the goose is what’s sauce for the gander.
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A$$H@ !!!
Yup... We don’t want to make “the cracker” into an idol.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Oh wait, I'm not muslim. ..never mind.
I don't suppose he'd care to explain why he "has to do something" about this. And while I don't personally regard this item as anything other than a cracker, I think it's a whole lot less "weird" of Catholics to regard it as something else, than of Mr. Myers to head off into cyberspace asking that somebody "score" him a consecrated wafer, and then claim that he "has to . . . treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web" because "they're demanding that I offer this respect to a symbol that means nothing to me". Ummm, somehow he missed mentioning where anybody demanded that he do anything at all with regard to these "crackers". Has somebody been scattering them in his path as he walks to class and demanding he alter his route to avoid stepping on them?
"Ye men of Freeper Republic, take heed to yourselves as to getting excited over this pagan, for he'll get his 15 minutes of fame and then it was dispersed, and he will come to nought. But if this act is truly against God, He will deal with it and ye shall not have to fight for Him."
He can rationalize this however he wants. Being a liberal professor, I’m sure he’s accustomed to rationalizations. But the fact remains that he wouldn’t dare insult Islam in any comparable way. He knows it. We all know it. He simply wouldn’t have the guts.
P Z. Meyers is an annoying little zit on the backside of university life who’s found a way to get his fifteen minutes of fame. He’s loving all this attention. Why are we giving it to him?
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