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 universitys website.
Here is an excerpt of his July 8 post, Its 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, Ill show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I wont 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 universitys 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 schools 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.
“On his website, one of his acolytes/fans/lackeys suggested precisely that as the method of desecration.”
Shows the depth of the commenter’s intellect. Is he fixated on ejaculation?
As I said in one of the previous threads about the UCF student stealing the wafer, the best way for Roman Catholics to respond to this sort of behavior is to roll their eyes and then ignore it, confident that God is sovereign over the Eucharist.
But I’m only a Protestant, so what do I know? Everybody can continue foaming at the mouth and giving Myers exactly what he wants.
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I wasn't sure this was not an overreaction until I saw post #54. This man's behaviour would not have been tolerated by previous generations. It is simply unacceptable in a civilized society.
Godless liberalism.
...and drive him over the edge with my version of counter-sacrilege.
Burn his ego in effigy?
Actions speak louder than words. If we act like we don't believe what we believe, we are acting hypocritically.
Hey, he's just being consistent in his non-literalism. Too bad so many Catholics refuse to understand this.
Please don't hijack this thread.
I didn't mean to "hijack" the thread, which was not caucused. I sincerely and honestly consider inconsistency in literalism to be highly relevant to this thread, especially considering the nature of this professor's blog.
Maybe Catholics will wake up now and break their silence on the issue of scientism and evolution.
And for the record, this guy is a hypocrite and a jerk of the first water. I hope no one thought I was justifying him.
Are you saying Roman Catholics are a race, or am I missing something?
I was just applying the standards that would have been applied to him if, say, he had threatened to desecrate the Koran, or, maybe posted a picture of an aborted baby on his website, or used the ‘n’ word or maybe the ‘q’ word in a derogatory fashion.
Post 54 just confirmed my opinion
We should pray that he will repent.
But you guys sure are using a lot of words.
With all due respect, you ACT as though you believe this guy could actually strike some sort of blow against a sovereign God with his crude grandstanding...which I certainly hope you don't.
No there isn't, and I am not defending him.
Maybe now you will understand what it feels like to have one's beliefs in a six day creation, the Flood, the Tower of Babel, or the ancients living nine hundred years made fun of.
I notice that "indigenous pipples" never have their religious beliefs mocked by liberals.
Kinda ironic that he now wants to get a communion wafer using false pretenses.
Which one? I shame myself with so many.
If you're referring to my initial post on his consistent non-literalism, I'm sorry you feel that way. It is simply galling to hear evolutionists and higher critics suddenly and arbitrarily become "fundies" on some issues.
And for the record, I'm on your side on this issue.
It is what it is. -John 6
It is God who has done so.
Apparently, except for the intentional desecration part, you agree with this jackass.
There’s a lot Catholic haters on FreeRepublic. A couple of obsessive compulsive types who seem to sppend all of their free time hunting up and posting every anti-Catholic screed they can find. I pity them.
You might be right, but I still suspect our boy-o has deeper roots than whatever philosophies he picked up in his academic life. Maybe he was rogered by some errant priest - who knows? This kind of guy, though, is a deliberate spoiler and his motives are emotional - a thirst for revenge?
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