Posted on 07/24/2008 1:26:41 PM PDT by NYer
University of Minnesota professor Paul Z. Myers made good on his pledge to desecrate the Eucharist today. According to his statement on the subject, “I pierced it [the Host] with a rusty nail (I hope Jesus’s tetanus shots are up to date). And then I simply threw it in the trash.”
Saying he did not want to “single out just the cracker,” Myers also tore pages from the Koran along with a few pages from Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion and nailed them to the Host. He then said, “They are just paper. Nothing must be held sacred. (His emphasis.) Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not your lord, you are not disciples of any charismatic prophet.”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:
“A formal complaint against Myers has already been made. What he did—in both word and deed—constitutes a bias incident, as defined by the University of Minnesota. The policy says that ‘Expressions of disrespectful bias, hate, harassment or hostility against an individual, group or their property because of the individual or group’s actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion…can be forms of discrimination. Expressions vary, and can be in the form of language, words, signs, symbols, threats, or actions that could potentially cause alarm, anger, fear, or resentment in others…even when presented as a joke.’
“The University must now take action and apply the appropriate sanction. We are contacting the president, Board of Regents and the Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Office at the school, as well as Minnesota’s governor and both houses of the state legislature; the Catholic community in Minnesota is also being contacted. Moreover, we are also contacting Muslim groups nationwide.
“It is important for Catholics to know that the University of Minnesota will not tolerate the deliberate destruction of the Eucharist by one of its faculty. Just as African Americans would not tolerate the burning of a cross, and Jews would not tolerate the display of swastikas, Catholics will not tolerate the desecration of the Eucharist.”
Contact Myers at myersp@morris.umn.edu
Contact President Robert Bruininks at bruin001@umn.edu
This is a person who enjoys attention. I still doubt his claims. Such a person would post pictures to support his statements. I’m calling his bluff.
Myers is an idiot.
He’s an ass, that’s for sure. I certainly have disagreements with the RCC, the Koran, and Dawkins, but do not see any reason for outrageous behavior.
He will give an account to God one day for his unbelief. And then he will know the Truth.
Myers is lost eternally if he doesn’t get right with Jesus.
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The less attention given Myers the more productive for our time - he is still working out his early diaper issues I think.
What do you want to bet we will hear calls not to demonize any particular group because of their religion?
What do you want to bet we will be told that his murder had nothing to do with religion or ‘hate crimes’?
Just asking.
Here's a bet where you have more chance to win. What do you want to bet he won't be killed within the next year? Are American Muslims more peaceful and tolerant than their European comrades? I guess we're about to find out.
Oh no Sir. Jesus IS my Lord. You merely don’t acknowledge him, doesn’t make Him a bit less omnipotent.
Well, I’ll at least give him credit for being even-handed. He probably did not take pictures so that there won’t be any actual proof.
The Islamic student association might just give him a beat-down one dark night, for his Koran desecration, however.
If a religion wants respect from leftists, it needs to pile up some corpses.
Can someone get on the wayback machine and bring back Godfrey of Bouillon and Bohemund of Taranto?
Or maybe Oliver Cromwell and a few of his roundheads?
I’m sure they would have loved to spend an evening cleaning up higher education.
If it’s just a cracker, just nothing, then why the obsession? I mean, heck I have a cupboard full of crackers and no need to drive a rusty nail through any of them. Nor do I need to destroy Mormons’ sacred underwear or a Koran. They don’t mean anything to me. I tend not to give them any thought.
The dude doth protest way tooooo much.
He’s already committed the unforgiveable sin of blasphemy. Not sure what’s left.
Until I saw this thread, I never heard of the guy.
Did I miss a response from CAIR?
Anyone wishing to express their calm rational concern about this man and his purported actions may do so at the following #’s. I spoke to his discipline coordinator on Monday and he said that they had received a number of calls already and that Mr. Myers was under review although he would not elaborate on what that meant exactly.
Paul Myers
Associate Professor of Biology
Phone: (320) 589-6343
E-mail: myersp@morris.umn.edu
And his discipline coordinator
Tracey Anderson
Associate Professor of Biology
Phone: (320) 589-6324
E-mail: anderstm@morris.umn.edu
And His bosses boss
Dr. Roland L. Guyotte
Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean Academic Affairs
315 Behmler Hall
600 E. 4th Street
University of Minnesota, Morris
Morris, MN 56267
320-589-6015
My thoughts as well. Let him show the defaced Koran to this mob.
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