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Add to NewsvineI'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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Reality check, he made such a threat over a year ago. Desecration: it's a fun hobby!
Two minutes on Google would have found you this -- but apparently, even a basic level of fact-checking is not to be found here.
When are we going to see a retraction and apology for this childish nonsense?
Posted by: Spook | August 19, 2008 8:16 PM
"pz myers is a coward, a creepy coward at that. he is not satisfied with being free to believe whatever it is he wishes to believe,no sir. He spends his free time bashing, attacking, mocking, and calling for the desecration of beliefs and religions that differ from his."
Actually your a creepy coward! The belief in magical jesus bread is stupid. Threatening to kill people because you mock the "sanctity" of magical jesus bread is criminal. I'm tired of thin skin, religious believer who view mocking their" sacred " beliefs as an attack on them! Grow up!
Posted by: Chris mankey | September 5, 2008 1:09 PM
God is a myth. Zeus, Hindu God, Jehovah, Allah, the hundreds of Roman Gods, Greek Gods, all through the orient Gods, the thousands of gods that at sometime humans believed in are all made up. I don’t get how some of you can’t see that. Apparently you can see some invisible existence of a god, but you can’t see that humans have an instinctive need to create superior, comfort giving, life after death icons to get you through life. It’s a made up guidance no different than astrology. I guess I could blame the schools, parents, society, media, churches, whatever, but how a grown, adult, educated person can still believe in invisible magical beings is beyond me. As the great Carl Sagan said, “The invisible and the non-existent look very much the same.” It’s such a simple quote that a child can understand it, but it’s such a simple quote a believer cannot understand it. I know, I know, I’m going to hell. Blah, Blah, Blah. But which hell? I’m no more afraid of going to your god’s hell as you are going to the other god’s hell.
Also, be sure to see Bill Maher’s upcoming documentary “Religulous” coming to theaters soon.
Posted by: Rob | September 16, 2008 3:23 PM
i think you need to read why he did it. do some research on the story, and not just blog some crap, after one of you friends tells you have the story. do some fact checking. the cracker was with pages of the koran, and with pages of dawkings book.
Posted by: evan | September 24, 2008 8:53 PM
"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."
If you did your research at all, you'd know that he did in fact rip out pages of the Koran and pierced them with a nail, along with pages from Dawkins's book The God Delusion.
How dare you falsely accuse someone of selective bigotry.
If he did something to offend you, write about that. You don't have to resort to childish name calling and flat out lies to get your point across.
Posted by: Sarah | October 5, 2008 11:16 AM
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