Most of us associate religious whack-jobbery with Christian and Muslim fundies. At first glance it may appear that mainstream Christian denominations have grown up a bit, and are not quite as goofy as the fringes.<\/p>\n
A mass of wacky catholics have stepped up to correct that misconception.<\/p>\n
Webster Cook, a student at University of Central Florida, walked out of mass with the cracker the priest gave him. Some are claiming it was an act of protest. He says he wanted to show it to a friend who was curious about the ritual. Whatever his motives it’s unlikely he expected the resultant shitstorm<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Diocese wants the cracker back so they can take care of it properly and respectfully. Father Migeul Gonzalez likened it to a kidnapping, and said it was like asking the kidnapper to return a loved one to the family. Susan Fani of the local Catholic diocese said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If anything were to qualify as a hate crime, to us this seems like this might be it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Cook received enough death threats that campus security was called to protect him.<\/p>\n Over a cracker<\/em>.<\/p>\n P.Z Myers blogged about it with an article <\/a>titled “It’s a Frackin Cracker!” In the article he asked if someone could send him a consecrated cracker so he could hold it hostage and desecrate it. As a result he and his employer received a torrent of death threats.<\/p>\n Over a cracker.<\/em><\/p>\n The Muslims who wanted to behead a woman for letting her students (their kids) name a teddy bear “Mohamed” now have some Christians to compare notes with.<\/p>\n I haven’t received any good threats in a while, so I’ve done something that should incite both Catholics and Muslims in one swoop.<\/p>\n Saturday I went to the store and picked up a box of Teddy Grams. On Sunday I went to a Catholic Mass and slipped two of them into the hands of a drunken priest with thick glasses. He looked a bit confused while he blessed them and returned them to me.<\/p>\n I took them home and named each of them Mohamed. Then I dipped one of them in bacon fat and fed it to my dog. (I don’t have a pig handy.) I’ve got the other one in a safe place, and am waiting for suggestions on the best way to desecrate it.<\/p>\n More Wackyness: <\/strong><\/p>\n After this post<\/a> on the Catholic Exchange, which announced that Catholic League president Bill Donohue was going to contact the state legislature to see what could be done, Doris Rodriguez commented: “How utterly sad and tragic that a grown man with so much responsibility and influence among our youth can resort to something so childish and immature!”<\/p>\n Right, because freaking out over a glorified Ritz is the adult, mature thing to do.<\/p>\n From the blog Vive Christus Rex<\/a>: “…the Eucharist IS our God” Your god is a cracker?<\/p>\n From the same source, a list<\/a> of all the things he needs to do to be saved, including written aplogies to everyone and six months of sensetivity training. Eveidently he needs to learn how to respect childish stupidity.<\/p>\n