I'm late to this, but many of you have no doubt seen the challenge issued by the Christian-hating fanatic Prof. P.Z. Myers of the University of Minnesota:
Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers? There's no way I can personally get them -- my local churches have stakes prepared for me, I'm sure -- but 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 goddamned cracker), but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web. I shall do so joyfully and with laughter in my heart. If you can smuggle some out from under the armed guards and grim nuns hovering over your local communion ceremony, just write to me and I'll send you my home address.
If P.Z. Myers had any guts, he would put out a call for someone to send him a Koran so he could blow his nose and wrap fish in it. After all, it's nothing but frackin' ink on paper, right? So what's stopping you, Big Man? It's easy to shit on what Catholics regard as sacred. But just try doing the same thing to what Muslims regard as sacred. Let's see what you're made of.
(I should underscore here that I am not advocating intentional desecration of anybody's religion. I'm using sarcasm to make a point about the selective bigotry of P.Z. Myers. Besides which, I think we all know if a professor at a major American university had issued a public call for people to send him a Koran or a Torah for the purpose of desecrating them, it would be front page news. Does anybody doubt that?
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Pz myers is the man!!! I don't think he's to worried about going to hell. Just a hunch.
I have doubts that those words above are those of PZ Myers. Either way, he is an amazingly talented scientist. If it upsets you that he dismantles those who would seek to discredit his life's work in the field of evolutionary biology by misrepresenting his work, lying about the evidence and clinging to a utterly discredited and demonstrably false biblical design ideology, than eff you.
Clearly the author of this post does not understand what PZ Myers is trying to say.
There is a major difference between the Koran and a communion cracker regarding whether Mr. Myers would abuse them.
For one...since the author and the rest of his religion (assuming he is Catholic-- if not, and is merely being respectful, then he clearly should know better, as the following belief of theirs does not deserve respect) believe that a consecrated wafer is actually the body of Christ, and that the wine is his blood, that he is merely trying to show that the purported meaning and significance behind a wafer does not actually exist. A Quran (as is spelled in Arabic) has more significance, as text contains information that can be used (unlike a wafer) and he would therefore almost certainly not make this claim.
I know it's almost a year after the fact, but did this author ever acknowledge that Myers _did_ in fact desecrate the Koran along with the cracker?
In case you didn't notice, P Z Myers actually included pages ripped out of the Koran in his demonstration, as well as pages from the God Delusion. His point was that we shouldn't get worked up over such silliness. They're only words on a page (and a piece of tasteless bread) after all. Perhaps this is a lesson you in particular need to learn..........
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