Posted on 07/10/2008 9:43:57 AM PDT by MplsSteve
A Minnesota university instructor is jousting with a national Catholic watch dog group over a kidnapped communion wafer, which the associate professor dismisses as a "frackin' cracker."
Paul Z. Myers, who teaches biology at the University of Minnesota, Morris, on his blog this week expressed amazement that a Florida college student who briefly took a wafer "hostage" has been receiving death threats.
Under the headline, "It's a frackin' cracker!" Myers wrote in an at-times profane blog entry: "Crazy Christian fanatics right here in our own country have been threatening to kill a young man over a cracker. This is insane."
He added: "Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers? ... I'll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won't be tempted to hold it hostage ... 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
It alarms me that people like this are actually teaching students at a place of higher learning.
If this guy actually doesn't believe anything he said and his words were spoken just to stir up a firestorm and draw attention to himself, I still say he's an a-hole!
Comments or opinions - anyone?
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The good professor better hope he never runs into me....
I doubt he’d be as enthusiastic about bookmarking a Koran with a slice of bacon.
Considering that several nitwits right on FR have more or less threatened to kill the kid, I tend to think that, profanities aside, the Professor has a point.
I think somebody here posted about the same sentence in one of the threads.
Certainly, a person who does not believe in Jesus might wonder why, with so many problems in the world, we were so upset about a piece of bread being taken.
IN other contexts, we’ve said how stupid it is to behead people for making fun of Mohomed.
Considering that several nitwits right on FR have more or less threatened to kill the kid, I tend to think that, profanities aside, the Professor has a point.
Disugusting. Even for an academic.
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