Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: AHerald
I myself do not steal communion wafers, fly the swastika, flush the koran, etc. because I have no reason to, and such acts would agitate folks who I really have no desire to offend (including members of my own family).

Nevertheless, I will call a wafer/cracker what it is, and remind you that while your faith may believe that it is magically transformed into the body of Christ, most of us on this planet see it as just a flour-based food product, nothing more, nothing less. I respect your right to believe in what you believe, but don't think I have any obligation to genuflect towards Rome, Mecca, or Jerusalem.

29 posted on 07/24/2008 8:51:23 PM PDT by Clemenza (No Comment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies ]


To: Clemenza

You have no obligation to perform any religious observation that you do not believe in, and you are smart to avoid offending others.

I agree 100%.

Do you hold any religious beliefs, if I may ask?


34 posted on 07/24/2008 9:00:35 PM PDT by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

To: Clemenza
I respect your right to believe in what you believe, but don't think I have any obligation to genuflect towards Rome, Mecca, or Jerusalem.

Straw man. No one's asking you to genuflect to anything. I've no interest in your assent to Catholic teaching on the Eucharist. The issue at hand is not whether or not the Eucharist is what Catholics say that it is. The issue is the intentional public desecration of that which others hold to be sacred. Stripped away from any debate about the merits of religious beliefs, what Myer's has done here is a gross violation of simple common civility in the public arena. And that, to answer your initial question is why this issue should matter to "rational human beings" like yourself.

39 posted on 07/24/2008 9:09:02 PM PDT by AHerald ("Be faithful to God ... do not bother about the ridicule of the foolish." - St. Pio of Pietrelcina)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson