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Can this possibly get more insane?
Category: Kooks • Politics • Religion
Posted on: July 11, 2008 2:58 PM, by PZ Myers
The Catholic League has issued another press release. In addition to disparaging the theory of evolution as the "King Kong Theory of Creation" (which is a bit peculiar, since Catholicism does not take a stand against evolution), he accuses me and my ilk (that's you, fair readers) of hysteria while making this hysterical declaration:
As a result of the hysteria that Myers' ilk have promoted, at least one public official is taking it seriously. Thomas E. Foley is chairman of Virginia's First Congressional District Republican Committee, a delegate to the Republican National Convention and one of two Republican at large nominees for Virginia's Electoral College. His concern is for the safety of Catholics attending this year's Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Myers' backyard. Accordingly, Foley has asked the top GOP brass to provide additional security while in the Twin Cities so that Catholics can worship without fear of violence. Given the vitriol we have experienced for simply exercising our First Amendment right to freedom of speech, we support Foley's request.
They are increasing security at the Republican convention out of fear of ME? I am puissant. Fear me, O Trembling Republicans. A flick of my wrist, and cathedrals tumble to the earth; a nod of my head, and heathen legions rise up and swarm like flesh-eating locusts over the faithful.
Hah.
The remark about my backyard is amusing — Minneapolis is 150 miles away. It's also more towards one side of my house; I think Iowa would be my backyard, while Canada is my front yard. I sure hope I don't get assessed for property taxes on the entire upper midwest.
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Comments
Posted by: Alex | July 11, 2008 3:12 PM
Yes first comment!
Posted by: Jackal | July 11, 2008 3:12 PM
Let me get this straight: they're the ones making death threats, and now they're asking for extra protection from us?
Posted by: Anonymous | July 11, 2008 3:14 PM
Epic troll is epic.
Posted by: ERV | July 11, 2008 3:15 PM
So... Now we just have to wait for your next post from the Minneapolis Apple Store about how you tried to crash the RNC, and they stopped you, but let Richard Dawkins in.
Posted by: Celtic_Evolution | July 11, 2008 3:15 PM
This is an old christian trick. Feign persecution. Plea for public protection. Garner sympathy. Use the whole invented premise as a basis for future claims of persecution.
Honestly... at this point in history, is there an organization less in need of protection for and more in need of proteciton from?
Posted by: David | July 11, 2008 3:15 PM
Anything that stimulates them to waste resources is fine by me
Posted by: Jason | July 11, 2008 3:16 PM
Especially ironic considering they're the ones sending death threats...
Posted by: Vaal | July 11, 2008 3:16 PM
Ah, they are on the run! :))
Posted by: Barry | July 11, 2008 3:16 PM
Ok, now we're WAY past just being ridiculous.
Looking forward to further developments, PZ.
Posted by: Kseniya | July 11, 2008 3:17 PM
Yes. This can get more insane.
Posted by: idahogie | July 11, 2008 3:17 PM
Maybe they'll have to redeploy some National Guard troops from Iraq. This could be a good thing.
Posted by: Lord Zero | July 11, 2008 3:18 PM
PZ, its unbelieable... why the person who receives
death threaths from christians its the dangerous individual ?
Those crazy fools are really fearful.
Again, im lucky for not living in the states, they would
have me trialed in court for something like this.
Posted by: ThePetey | July 11, 2008 3:18 PM
ummm,
wasn't it the CATHOLICS making the threats of violence and us just making fun of them?????
Posted by: craig | July 11, 2008 3:18 PM
They live for this kind of crap. Their followers (the GOP masses, not just the Catholic ones) will eat this up.
They'll get all damp in their knickers with glee at the thought that they need extra protection... their little martyr complexes will be quaking with delight.
Ya know, I think there may be some kind of connection between the theater of church, the political theater, and the security theater they've been putting on.
Is there a way in which the wands waved at my genitals in the airport serve these people mentally as a kind of religious incantation?
Posted by: Curtis | July 11, 2008 3:18 PM
It's projection. They'd burn us all at the stake if they could so they assume PZ, and anyone with a functioning brain, would do the same.
Posted by: Ken Cope | July 11, 2008 3:19 PM
It cannot possibly be any less insane, more insane is the only available direction, as stasis is out of the question.
Posted by: Ben | July 11, 2008 3:19 PM
Haha, seriously though, don't joke about how dangerous you are. They mightn't pick up on the irony and the next press release will be about your use of the crazy theory of evolution to train flesh eating locusts to attack only Catholics.
Posted by: Lana | July 11, 2008 3:19 PM
This is unbelievable. Catholics are physically afraid of you? No offense, P.Z., but you appear to be a mild-mannered fellow who was more likely the stuffee than the stuffer in high school locker rooms. Again, no offense. Lots of us women are happier having ended up with the stuffee.
Posted by: Drew | July 11, 2008 3:19 PM
The thing that bothers me about this is that it's kinda hard to argue that the Catholic Church is not the single most powerful organization on earth. There's real evil out there, and frankly, the Catholics could do something about it.
And what's the hill they choose to die on? Desecrating a cracker.
Posted by: Rob the Lurker FCD BMWCCA | July 11, 2008 3:20 PM
"...he accuses me and my ilk (that's you, fair readers) of hysteria..."
Actually, I believe he's accusing us of promoting THEIR hysteria. [If I'm reading it correctly.]
Posted by: gdlchmst | July 11, 2008 3:20 PM
I am so tempted to give them what they fear.
Posted by: Rob the Lurker FCD BMWCCA | July 11, 2008 3:21 PM
"...he accuses me and my ilk (that's you, fair readers) of hysteria..."
Actually, I believe he's accusing us of promoting THEIR hysteria. [If I'm reading it correctly.]
Posted by: Terrellk | July 11, 2008 3:21 PM
PZ when you come to Atlanta on Saturday we have to have Crackers with our beer!! Ha Crackers in Georgia, that's funny on so many levels.
Posted by: Lord Zero | July 11, 2008 3:22 PM
They are sure than its a fight to death... and the
first to strike wins. Its pure fear. Fear of reason,
fear of reality itself.
Posted by: Phil Doubet | July 11, 2008 3:22 PM
Oddly enough, I have been collecting consecrated hosts for the past month in preparation for an Op-Ed piece I was going to write. I had thought about making them into a meatloaf (using hosts in place of breadcrumbs), but now I think I will save them for something better.
Anybody want to go for a ride?????
Posted by: BadMA | July 11, 2008 3:24 PM
Don't forget the incident that started this. The guy who so callously smuggled a sacred cracker from a Catholic church returned it because he had been threatened. I think they're just trying to take some of the heat off of themselves. I thought Catholics had tacitly admitted that it was really just a cracker centuries ago, but kept the tradition because it was, well, tradition.
Posted by: Damian | July 11, 2008 3:25 PM
Could these a-holes be any more dishonest?
Oh well, I guess that we are going to have to see this one through now, no matter how bad it gets. ;-)
With pleasure, I say.
Posted by: Mark | July 11, 2008 3:25 PM
"Oh, HALP! The Atheist Octopoctowockles gots me! HALP! Won't SOMEBODY SAVE me?"
Posted by: Rando | July 11, 2008 3:26 PM
Good god. Can Bill Donohue become anymore detached from reality?
Posted by: Marcus Ranum | July 11, 2008 3:26 PM
Oh NOES! Iz teh famulus "squeal like a pig" strategee!!!!! Onwardz, catholic bitchez!
Posted by: room101 | July 11, 2008 3:26 PM
Lord Zero #12 said:
"PZ, its unbelieable... why the person who receives
death threaths from christians its the dangerous individual ?"
Well, PZ DID threaten to do harm to a cracker after all, which, according to them, is much, MUCH worse...
Posted by: Ken Cope | July 11, 2008 3:26 PM
Now that it's part of the GOP platform, there is only one place this can end up on such a trajectory. The event that is now inevitable is for Barack Obama to make an address at a Catholic University, formally denouncing PZ Myers, and especially his inky ilk. I'm afraid there's a bus's underside in your future, PZ.
Posted by: Kristin | July 11, 2008 3:28 PM
since when are we violent?
Posted by: Bob Prager | July 11, 2008 3:29 PM
As an RC myself, I thought PZ's remarks were a little over the top -- but doggonit! It's his right to say it!
By the way, please don't destroy the cathedral in St Paul -- it's a beautiful building, and a rather nice landmark!
;-)
Posted by: Carlie | July 11, 2008 3:30 PM
Wow. With this on top of the movie ruckus, the Minneapolis police are going to get darned sick of protecting the public from you, PZ. I think it would be awesome if you went to the convention and just stood outside the door for awhile, doing nothing.
Posted by: kcrady | July 11, 2008 3:31 PM
Emailed:
Dear Mr. Bruininks:
While I am aware that many will find P.Z. Myers' proposal to desecrate a Eucharist wafer shocking and offensive, I think that the people least entitled to outrage--much less threats of violence and demands for censorship of Dr. Myers--are those who worship the wafer as the transubstantiated flesh of Jesus. The "Judeo-Christian tradition" has a long history of desecrating and destroying the sacred sites and relics of other religions, going back to before there was a "Christian" to add after the hyphen. The Hebrew Bible is replete with instructions to destroy the transubstantiated statues ("idols") that embodied the deities of other religions, murder their clergy and burn their bodies on their own altars. Bill Donahue's church has sanctioned the destruction of incalculable amounts of priceless religious artwork belonging to other faiths, destruction of their temples and the construction of Catholic churches atop the ruins. The Roman Catholic Church destroyed nearly all of the books of the pre-Columbian civilizations, defaced the majestic temples of the Egyptians, and destroyed much of the religious, scientific, and philosophical inheritance of the Greco-Roman world. They made a saint out of the man who murdered the last Librarian of Alexandria and burned down the Library itself.
In comparison, P.Z. Myers has proposed the public desecration of a cracker that can be bought in bulk for a pittance, a "crime" for which he has been threatened with physical attack, in addition to an organized campaign to deprive him of his economic livelihood. A Eucharist wafer is not a priceless work of art or literature. It is "special" only because of a magic spell cast upon it by a Catholic priest.
P.Z. Myers has become an internationally known, prominent spokesman for science and critical thought in the same league with Richard Dawkins, Eugenie Scott, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. In addition to defending science against the onslaught of creationism, alternative "medicine" and other superstitions, Professor Myers also provides fascinating informative content, such as explanations of syenteny, the groundbreaking research of Dr. Lenski on evolution in E. Coli, and regular explorations into the mystery and wonder of cephalopods. Any university in the world could be proud to count P.Z. Myers as a member of its faculty.
In this current controversy, P.Z. Myers has had the courage to take a stand against forces of intolerance continuing their own tradition of using violence against those who disagree with them. In this case, Professor Myers is publicly standing up to defend an otherwise voiceless student who simply kept something that was freely given to him in the first place. You can know that if any force of organized ignorance were ever to threaten your University, that you can count on Professor Myers to have the physical courage to put his own person on the line in defense of reason and free inquiry. That alone ought to stand as a shining example of excellence in a member of your faculty.
Thank you for your attention.
Yours sincerely,
(Real name, address, and phone number)
Posted by: Ron | July 11, 2008 3:31 PM
I went to the link you provided. Did the university actually remove the link to your blog because of the hysteria of these guys?
Posted by: pbnj | July 11, 2008 3:31 PM
PZ, did you know the university is removing links to your blog from their website?
Posted by: Chayanov | July 11, 2008 3:31 PM
Oh those poor persecuted Catholics in Saint Paul. How will they ever manage the few blocks from the Xcel Center to the Saint Paul Cathedral without being killed by atheists?
What? It's the Catholics who were threatening to kill atheists? Oh, never mind then.
Posted by: BobC | July 11, 2008 3:31 PM
Catholics and Christians like to feel persecuted for some reason. Who can understand the minds of idiots?
Posted by: Nathaniel | July 11, 2008 3:31 PM
"Let me get this straight: they're the ones making death threats, and now they're asking for extra protection from us?"
Yes. Trying to quote Douglas Adams from memory...
"All civilizations go through three stages:
Retribution:
I'm going to kill you because you killed my brother.
Anticipation:
I'm going to kill you because I killed YOUR brother.
Diplomacy:
I'm going to kill my brother and then kill you on the pretext that your brother did it.
"
Posted by: James F | July 11, 2008 3:32 PM
In summary:
1) Webster Cook shouldn't have taken the host without asking.
2) The diocese has a right to be upset and take action over the theft.
3) Extreme reactions like death threats against Cook are completely unacceptable.
4) PZ has a right to mock the whole situation.
5) People have a right to be offended by PZ's comments and say so.
6) Donohue is blowing the whole thing out of proportion.
Posted by: Rob the Lurker FCD BMWCCA | July 11, 2008 3:32 PM
"...disparaging the theory of evolution as the "King Kong Theory of Creation" (which is a bit peculiar, since Catholicism does not take a stand against evolution)..."
It was my understanding that The Catholic League is not affiliated with the official Catholic church based in Rome, Italy. And I get the feeling they don't want to be.
For the record, I have contempt for both.
Posted by: The502 | July 11, 2008 3:32 PM
Amazing... I can only hope to piss off Bill as much as you have. I'll have to try harder.
Posted by: The Reality-Based Dave | July 11, 2008 3:32 PM
Ummm... Is'nt the convention being held in Saint Paul? Y'know, the city that has a Catholic cathedral across the road from the state capitol building? The dome of the cathedral that matches the dome of the capitol? Saint IRISH Paul? WTF?!?
The rethugs keep on inventing new forms of being clueless.
Posted by: Junkjungle | July 11, 2008 3:32 PM
You know, I woke up this morning with a feeling that I was going to get my fill of religious inanity. Little did I know that it would not come from my Catholic coworker, but from the Catholic League and their ilk (hey, fair's fair).
Posted by: gdlchmst | July 11, 2008 3:32 PM
"since when are we violent?"
Since we started raping their minds with our awesome logic.
Posted by: Jamdark | July 11, 2008 3:33 PM
I can't help but laugh at this logic, "Myers' ilk used big mean words at us, and now we fear for our lives, and worse still, our religious freedomses!" *KA-CLICK*.
Posted by: chrisD | July 11, 2008 3:33 PM
Just for the record, #21 gdlchmst doesn't speak for me. Way to give them ammunition bro.
Posted by: GirBoBytons | July 11, 2008 3:33 PM
Wow, well you know how scary us godless heathens can be! We shall not rest until we have killed every cracker, cracker and cracker. We shall take them from your homes, kitchen cabinets, grocery stores and perhaps throw them at you at conventions! I love how they start out stupid and continue to make themselves worse. PZ quit scaring the simple folk!! :P
Posted by: TSC | July 11, 2008 3:34 PM
This is fucking hilarious. You bad-boy demon! It must be the dyspeptic recurrence the IDiots mentioned earlier. Or the fact that you took your family to see Iron Man.
Posted by: pcarini | July 11, 2008 3:34 PM
My take on this is that they can now say "It's not linked from our website" and then feel justified in taking no other action.
Posted by: peaches | July 11, 2008 3:34 PM
Are they asking for more security for themselves or more security for the crackers? Is there going to be a security detail at every mass ensuring that people have fully chewed and swallowed the host before they leave the building?
Well, I can't deny that they've experience vitriol. I heard some asshat even initiated a letter-writing campaign to Bill Donohue's boss trying to get him fired over this whole thing. Oh, wait...
Posted by: ice weasel | July 11, 2008 3:34 PM
Bah, bed wetting republicans are nothing new. That they're attributing it to something other than evil, dark-skinned terrorists might be a new twist. These scared, pathetic creeps need to stir up fear wherever they can. It's the only hold they have on their sheep...errr...flock....errr....people.
Donohue is the basest of whores. The one who cannot stand to be out of the spotlight and will do anything to stay in it.
Posted by: Alex | July 11, 2008 3:35 PM
This is kind of stupid, even for a bunch of religious zealots. If anyone is going to cause any violence, it's going to be one of those kind, intelligent Catholics. ;)
Posted by: Mena | July 11, 2008 3:35 PM
Will that added security be protecting the Goopers in the men's room at the airport? There apparently was all sorts of Republicans engaging in flesh-in-mouth activities there. They must be protected!
Lana @18: I am glad that I have my stuffee as well. ;^)
Oh, one more thing.
A flick of my wrist, and cathedrals tumble to the earth; a nod of my head, and heathen legions rise up and swarm like flesh-eating locusts over the faithful.
So the earthquake that hit Lisbon on All Saint's Day 1755, the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska in 1964, and the tsunami on Boxing Day 2004 were done by you? :^@
Posted by: Am I Evil? | July 11, 2008 3:35 PM
Let them dig... let them dig. They only succeed in making themselves look ever more twattish.
Perhaps their crackers will arrive by helicopter in hermetically sealed tungsten cases.
Posted by: Alonzo Fyfe | July 11, 2008 3:35 PM
Note that the linked press release says:
"But he'd better be careful what he says, because if I get any death threats, it won't be hard to connect the dots."
So, they have not received any death threats yet. (And let's keep it that way.)
Whereas . . . how many death threats have gone the other direction?
Alonzo Fyfe
Atheist Ethicist
Posted by: pcarini | July 11, 2008 3:37 PM
This whole situation is exciting and hilarious! It's like the War on Christmas, in July!
Posted by: pbnj | July 11, 2008 3:37 PM
Link included on July 6th version of faculty page:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:pWo_qvB7RlEJ:www.morris.umn.edu/academic/biology/faculty.html+pharyngula+site:morris.umn.edu&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Link has since been removed.
Posted by: Reed A. Cartwright | July 11, 2008 3:38 PM
Good luck finding a cracker in Atlanta. They became scarce around the time of Brown v. Board of Education.
Posted by: Chayanov | July 11, 2008 3:38 PM
Of course the Republicans have already been busy looking for some kind of excuse to impose martial law in the Twin Cities during the convention.
Posted by: C.J. Simones | July 11, 2008 3:38 PM
Spare me your self-pitying drivel. For someone that holds Christianity in such contempt you sure nail the part of the martyr. You know darn well there'll be no Christians issuing fatwas calling for your head to be cut off (or if its Rev. Jackson, other unnecessary appendages).
If you want to strike a real blow against the oppressive myth of religion and show the true courage of your convictions, why don't you post a Mohammed caricature doing something unspeakable to a camel?
You Christian-bashers are all the same: cowardly self-aggrandizers.
Posted by: BobC | July 11, 2008 3:38 PM
What bugs me the most about the cracker incident, is the removal of the Pharyngula link from the University's website. That's sucking up to Catholic terrorists and it's disgraceful. At least two emails that were sent, including one from me, requested that the link be restored.
Posted by: andyo | July 11, 2008 3:39 PM
In the words of GOB Bluth:
Oh, COME ON!
On the other hand, this will probably finally teach them how to spell your name correctly.
Posted by: Brownian, OM | July 11, 2008 3:40 PM
Apparently since we built Hitler in our secret basement Satanic laboratory over a century ago.
Of course, anyone with passable fluency in German knows that Hitler was a professed Catholic as were many of his supporters at the time, including the Catholic Church.
However, since most American Christians seem to follow the tenet "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me", no one could reasonably expect them to know that.
Posted by: Junkjungle | July 11, 2008 3:40 PM
Just for the record, #21 gdlchmst doesn't speak for me. Way to give them ammunition bro. - chrisD
But he never said what, exactly, he'd be giving them. I say, we give them exactly what they fear, as noted by the same gdlchmst in post #47
"'since when are we violent?'
Since we started raping their minds with our awesome logic."
Posted by: Lord Zero | July 11, 2008 3:40 PM
Its truth!!, now there is a great chance than this
will become a whole country issue, with the
Crackergate being a strong diverging point
between candidates...
Its would be great to see PZ being interview in
national tv, and having first pages on the news!!
Posted by: kryptonic | July 11, 2008 3:40 PM
This is just nucking futs!
I think it's time for the Department of Homeland Security to raise the terrorism threat level to Red/Severe.
Posted by: pcarini | July 11, 2008 3:41 PM
C.J. Simones @ #63
You did read that he got at least four death threats by email just yesterday, right?
Posted by: Rey Fox | July 11, 2008 3:43 PM
The way it's getting, I can never hope for a "First!" and have to be happy with "Fifty-ninth!" (most likely a lie by the time this gets posted).
I'd like to go to the Republican convention now and just hold up a sign that says "BOO!"
Posted by: El'd Herring | July 11, 2008 3:43 PM
Nathaniel - a very valid point. Pity you didn't wait a few seconds and post it on #42 though - that would have been a neat coincidence!
Posted by: Joe Blough | July 11, 2008 3:43 PM
Bill Donohue accusing others of hysteria? Donohue pretty much is the definition of hysteria.
Posted by: Alex | July 11, 2008 3:43 PM
#1
That's my handle. No fair.
Posted by: Cathy in Seattle | July 11, 2008 3:44 PM
As others have said, it's the time-honored "oh look at us we're so persecuted" technique beloved of the bible-thumpers.
Where would they be without our mockery? Ignored. Poor them, they need us.
Posted by: uncle frogy | July 11, 2008 3:44 PM
the right honorable Thomas E. Foley
is a pandering jackass getting his name into this brouhaha bullshit tempest in a tea pot just to make himself look important and relevant to his district's voters! If the RNC takes this seriously than reason has fled the neo-con reactionary right wing if there ever was any reason present in the first place. Just looks to me as another cynical political ploy to gain and maintain there own hold on political power!
Posted by: Alex | July 11, 2008 3:45 PM
Watch out you catholics. I got some mean 'ole words I'll thump you with!
Posted by: W. Kiernan | July 11, 2008 3:45 PM
Hey C. J. Simones, you jackass, can't you read? PZ has already gotten death threats from you child-molesting swine.
Posted by: chrisD | July 11, 2008 3:45 PM
Just for the record #47 gdlchmst does indeed speak for me. We have no lack of ammunition there, bro.
Posted by: Rey Fox | July 11, 2008 3:45 PM
More Koran Envy @ #63. Anyone keeping tally?
Posted by: pcarini | July 11, 2008 3:45 PM
Rey Fox @ #71
And with that we should close this thread. That's the best thing I've read all week!
Posted by: Dahan | July 11, 2008 3:46 PM
Well, it's my backyard. I live in Saint Paul, and my wife works right downtown. They'd better be ready for me, because I'm prepared to roll my eyes at them and possibly even laugh. They should consider themselves warned! I may even march peacfully! I've done it before.
Don't worry, I'm using software that won't allow this to be traced back to me.
Posted by: BobC | July 11, 2008 3:46 PM
"If you want to strike a real blow against the oppressive myth of religion and show the true courage of your convictions, why don't you post a Mohammed caricature doing something unspeakable to a camel?"
Good idea. We should do that the next time Muslims make death threats because somebody refused to eat a cracker.
Posted by: DrA | July 11, 2008 3:47 PM
Let me add a historical note about heresies and the Eucharist. I'm not a Catholic or a Catholic scholar, so I'm darned if I know how I know this, but the Catholic church had a long debate about transubstantiation. One opponent of a literal transformation into flesh and blood, a fellow named Berengar of Tours, called Pope Leo IX pulpifex (flesh maker), a pun on pontifex. Clever though it was this was the sort of heresy that could get you burned during the Inquisition. So that seems to be what we have here a new Inquisition. Any stakes being erected out on the quad? Sounds like people at the Catholic league have way too much time on their hands.
Posted by: Copache | July 11, 2008 3:47 PM
http://copache.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/it-gets-me-part-ii/
The sequel to yesterday's post. Happy to support you, PZ, and equally happy that Bill Donohue is such a dumbass that he would open up such opportunity to be attacked openly for his hypocrisy in my crowd.
:)
Posted by: C'mon ya loser! | July 11, 2008 3:47 PM
C.J. Simones, lay off the muslim thing. It's way beyond cliche and well into the mouth breather mantra range. As for Muslims, I have friends and family who are muslims. They don't want to behead you. They don't want to knock down any buildings. They want you and the mental giants who keep posting this same thing to develop a clue about the outside world so that they can live their lives without some idiot thinking that he or she is going to blow them up. Besides, if you do stop being terrified of muslims, you may not need to wear adult diapers any longer because you won't wet your pants every time you go out in public and see one. It's especially good since people like you tend to think that any brown skinned people, even people from central and south america are A-rabs. You must do a lot of laundry.
Posted by: Dustin | July 11, 2008 3:48 PM
Yesss... YESSSSS! THE STARS ARE IN PLACE, AND THE EARTH TREMBLES IN TERROR AND DESPAIR! THE GREAT OLD ONES ARE RETURNED FROM THE VOID! All hail my Dark Master!Posted by: Draconiz | July 11, 2008 3:48 PM
Fear me, O Trembling Republicans. A flick of my wrist, and cathedrals tumble to the earth; a nod of my head, and heathen legions rise up and swarm like flesh-eating locusts over the faithful.
PZ, you just owned the Internet!!!
Posted by: C.J. Simones | July 11, 2008 3:49 PM
I say again:
"Spare me your self-pitying drivel. For someone that holds Christianity in such contempt you sure nail the part of the martyr. You know darn well there'll be no Christians issuing fatwas calling for your head to be cut off (or if its Rev. Jackson, other unnecessary appendages).
If you want to strike a real blow against the oppressive myth of religion and show the true courage of your convictions, why don't you post a Mohammed caricature doing something unspeakable to a camel?
You Christian-bashers are all the same: cowardly self-aggrandizers."
Posted by: Lord Zero | July 11, 2008 3:50 PM
So much hate damn it... they really
smugled the link ! all just for a
cracker ! Its unbeliable, im so sorry,
but that could never happen in my country
nor in most countries around the world.
If awful, why a so powerful country
as the states its giving so shameful example ?
Posted by: Helioprogenus | July 11, 2008 3:50 PM
That's right, we're a real threat to these fucking idiots. Our rational beliefs coupled with our critical thinking skills and powers of reasoning are so dangerous, that we'll melt the brains and eyes of any who stand in our way. Wouldn't it be great if reality was this way? Unfortunately, the frenzied and rabid vitriol of these religious bastards is a bigger threat than anything we atheists (and secularists in general) can muster.
Beware, all you holy book toting, flesh eating, blood drinking, pork avoiding, weekend worshipping, hypocritical, self-righteous, ignorant, illiterate, unscrupulous bastards, we have you in our sights. Unfortunately, the powers that the constitution provides us does not allow us to silence you effectively, but we're not going to stop educating and spreading logic, critical thinking, reasoning amongst the critical masses. Your archaic notions are constantly at odds with reality, and something's gotta give you fuckers.
Posted by: pcarini | July 11, 2008 3:51 PM
@#89:
The fuck? Saying it twice doesn't make it any better or more true, dipshit.
Posted by: JD | July 11, 2008 3:52 PM
All this over an f'n cracker. This whole series of insanity from these religious nuts reminded me of when I was a teenager and had a Mormon raised girlfriend. Was never religious myself, she certainly didn't act "religious" either but I did attend some of the Mormon church dances they held and a service or two with her. The Mormon's also perform this ritual and when the crackers came to us I just did what everyone else was doing and picked up a cracker to take a bite. I didn't really know anything back then about the religious mythology behind the whole thing. Before I took a bite my girlfriend stopped me and I'll never forget the look on her face as she asked me "You know what that is right?" She had a pained look as if I might suddenly burst into flames on the spot if I actually took a bite. I just looked at her and said "Of course!" (I was really thinking yeah it's a f'n cracker so what?)", ate my cracker and that was that. Now I look back and think how thoroughly brainwashed she must have been as a child and am just stunned that so many people can swallow this kind of idiotic belief.
Posted by: daenku32 | July 11, 2008 3:52 PM
Have they not looked at the picture of PZ? He looks like a cute little teddy bear.
But no one expects the inquisition!
Posted by: ndt | July 11, 2008 3:52 PM
Yes it is. It's not in Minneapolis and it's nowhere near Morris. And as a Saint Paul resident, let me assure you that those of us who actually live in and love this city did not want the GOP convention here and want no part of it.
Posted by: watercat | July 11, 2008 3:52 PM
As I recall, this whole flap started when some Catholics grabbed a kid and attempted to physically wrestle away his possessions.
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Posted by: Fitz Doubet | July 11, 2008 3:52 PM
Oh brother. *rolls eyes* Ooh, the heathen armys are going to go marching to bludgeon old white men over a cracker. Give me a fucking break.
Sorry Billy boy, the persecution excuse doesn't fly anymore.