Posted on 07/10/2008 7:28:58 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Paul Zachary Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota Morris, has pledged to desecrate the Eucharist. He is responding to what happened recently at the University of Central Florida when a student walked out of Mass with the Host, holding it hostage for several days. Myers was angry at the Catholic League for criticizing the student. His post can be accessed from his faculty page on the university’s website.
Here is an excerpt of his July 8 post, “It’s a Frackin’ Cracker!”:
“Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers?” Myers continued by saying, “if any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I’ll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won’t be tempted to hold it hostage (no, not even if I have a choice between returning the Eucharist and watching Bill Donohue kick the pope in the balls, which would apparently be a more humane act than desecrating a go*****ed cracker), but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web.”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:
“The Myers blog can be accessed from the university’s website. The university has a policy statement on this issue which says that the ‘Contents of all electronic pages must be consistent with University of Minnesota policies, local, state and federal laws.’ One of the school’s policies, ‘Code of Conduct,’ says that ‘When dealing with others,’ faculty et al. must be ‘respectful, fair and civil.’ Accordingly, we are contacting the President and the Board of Regents to see what they are going to do about this matter. Because the university is a state institution, we are also contacting the Minnesota legislature.
“It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ. We look to those who have oversight responsibility to act quickly and decisively.”
Paul Zachary Myers is nothing but no-count gutter trash lower than Satan’s bunion.
You have got to be kidding me! This guy would never do such a thing because most liberals are cowards.
Typical product of the baby boomer generation. I can’t wait until the bulk of this generation goes away.
If the guy has problems with the Catholic Church or catholic theology, he has no obligation to be any part of it.
I know people who are agnostic, or generally non-believers, lapsed Catholics or Deistic in their beliefs, but would never do something so deeply offensive to so many. Most of them don’t care enough about Catholic Eucharistic theology to bother with this kind of horrid sacriledge.
But what he is suggesting is so vile and wrong and offensive...It is the kind of thing people used to do at Black Mass, and in satanic ceremonies.
For that matter, I seriously doubt anything is going to happen. He is probably doing this just to taunt the faithful.
I stay off those threads. ;-)
I am, actually, very encouraged by the responses to date on this.
This is wisdom I try to demonstrate as well.
There are many conservatives. We slam muslims for threatening violence for descrating a Koran or images of Mad mohammed. We also slam Catholics for losing their minds over what scientifically is a cracker.
Believe what you want. Don't get violent when someone calls you on a fantasy.
I believe in God. I have absolutely no belief that the cracker becomes the flesh of God. It's a religious ritual and it's worship. That doesn't mean you get to threaten to "beat some sense" into someone that desecrates a cracker.
Plop!
Yeah it really stinks that someone it stomping all over your faith. People have the right to do that in this country. There is no law against being an obnoxious a$$.
Real conservatives will sometimes have to defend positions that they may personally find abhorrent. Why? Because that's exactly what can happen when you defend our Constitution.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know that's what defines being conservative.
Prof. Myers, kind of you to join us.
Oh, by the way Centurion2000, there wouldn't be a conservative movement if it weren't for certain "cracker worshippers."
I have no problem with evolution either. Many evolutionists have a problem with the Church - eg. This guy.
Not at all. Do I find what he is doing to be wrong? Yup.
Is threatening someone over what he is planning to do wrong? Yep.
Just because you believe it does not make it a fact. And being a conservative does not mean that we have to defend a religious ritual.
Freemasonry at work!
There also wouldn't be a conservative movement if there weren't people to defend the Constitution, even when it sometimes flies in the face of what "cracker worshippers" want to do to impose their morality / standards on others.
Sometimes you just have to agree to disagree. Have your faith (I have mine and my morality standards), but don't get all bent out of shape if you can't or won't be able to debate it against science or the five senses.
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