MINNESOTA PROFESSOR PLEDGES TO DESECRATE EUCHARIST
MINNESOTA PROFESSOR PLEDGES TO DESECRATE EUCHARIST
July 10, 2008
Paul Zachary Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota Morris, has pledged to desecrate the Eucharist. He is responding to what happened recently at the University of Central Florida when a student walked out of Mass with the Host, holding it hostage for several days. Myers was angry at the Catholic League for criticizing the student. His post can be accessed from his faculty page on the university’s website.
Here is an excerpt of his July 8 post, “It’s a Frackin’ Cracker!”:
“Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers?” Myers continued by saying, “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.”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:
“The Myers blog can be accessed from the university’s website. The university has a policy statement on this issue which says that the ‘Contents of all electronic pages must be consistent with University of Minnesota policies, local, state and federal laws.’ One of the school’s policies, ‘Code of Conduct,’ says that ‘When dealing with others,’ faculty et al. must be ‘respectful, fair and civil.’ Accordingly, we are contacting the President and the Board of Regents to see what they are going to do about this matter. Because the university is a state institution, we are also contacting the Minnesota legislature.
“It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ. We look to those who have oversight responsibility to act quickly and decisively.”
Contact U of MN President Robert Bruininks at bruin001@umn.edu
posted by Taynia at 9:41 AM
9 Comments:
I can think of lots of things more vile than desecrating a cracker, regardless of how transubstantiated it is supposed to be.
Bill Donohue obviously suffers from a chronic lack of imagination in addition to being dangerously thin skinned, overly pretentious and foolishly righteous.
I would think that physical crimes against a living human being such as molestation of children by priests, and acceptance of a war which has killed hundreds of thousands, the death threats recieved by Myers as a rusult of Donohue's rant, or even calls for the expulsion of a student and firing of a professor would be much more vile to Donohue than anything anyone could do to a cracker.
But then, I just think its a cracker, not the physical body of Christ, so I must be wrong.
hmmmm - you must be thin skinned and pretentious yourself since your blogger profile isn't even available.....
if you were a real man you'd make it available to others so they could see who you are and read your blog.
but apparently you only have a blogger name so that you can make your cheap shot comments that you're not even big enough then to stand behind.
and for this you're in our prayers right along with this other wingnut.
I can only assume your venting must come from a place of ignorance rather than out and out BIGOTRY...but I could be wrong.
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Ignore this Franklin character. A delicate rose like him/ her might have good reasons to be spineless and incognito. Typically, intellectually feeble individuals can't face the opposition because they can't defend their own assertions. I think you know this.
Either way, he/ she’s got no balls.
delicate rose!!
hehehe....oh tom!
You’re arguments aren’t any more convincing because you’ve presented them under the name of an American founding father. Actually, your arguments aren’t convincing at all and they’re a bit overplayed, to say the very least.
Coincidently, Benjamin Franklin, a true intellectual, recognized a Higher Power, and said so on many occasions.
If you must publicly display your ignorance, at least do that under your own name.
Pardon me for the typo,
Your arguments aren’t any more convincing because you’ve presented them under the name of an American founding father. Actually, your arguments aren’t convincing at all and they’re a bit overplayed, to say the very least.
Coincidently, Benjamin Franklin, a true intellectual, recognized a Higher Power, and said so on many occasions.
If you must publicly display your ignorance, at least do that under your own name.
Would you have said the same things to Benjamin Franklin, who wrote under the pen name Silence Dogood? Do you think he wasn't a "real man"? Do you think he was "spineless"?
You attack me because I choose not to reveal my true name to a group that, demonstrably, has a lunatic and hateful fringe, as evidenced by death threats sent to Webster Cook and PZ Myers.
Instead, try justifying a foolish religious ritual developed 1,000 years ago, or try proving it's validity.
look here ben - let's be honest:
1.)everyone knows that Benjamin Franklin admitted to being the fake widow Silence Dogood and after less than a year at that (an immature teenage move nonetheless)
2.)he only wrote under that name as his brother would've never let him submit letters to his paper if he'd have known it was him (unlike those who are free to write as they please as no one is going to stop them)
3.)Lastly, no - I do not consider Benjamin Franklin anyone I'd lift up as a hero...let alone as a real man.
I may not have made the comment concerning him but I personally think he was a spineless, self-centered ass who focused all his time and energy on himself and his interests and failed to have ANY compassion for his family, having all but abandoned his wife while in London for over a decade (despite her pleas and illness)and having been the kind of "man" who utterly ignored his daughter and locked up his own son.
But if you want to write "Ben Franklin" as your pseudonym, it is your choice....more power to you.
it's not your "avatar" that's the issue. It's the cowardly way you hide your own blog and profile that belies your inability to stand behind your ....errr... hateful and provocative comments.
if you want to talk about proof...let's see you produce something far more RECENT than a thousands of years old liturgy.
Let's see you produce proof of all these death threats that seemed to have you so scared you can't show your own blog.
now that would be interesting indeed.
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Could not have said it better myself.
You know, it's one thing to argue a viewpoint that differs from yours intellectually,. But I simply have not patience for individuals who, instead of logically asserting their convictions, resort to inflammatory and disrespectful jabs to somehow get the upper hand on their opponents. To me this pathology reveals an irrational animosity to beliefs that are incongruent with their view of the world (see Richard Dawkins). And in this particular case, they betray their own ideals with cowardice and hide their true identity. People like "Ben" are perpetually retreating.
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