2008-07-07 Student Who Took Religious Icon Getting Death Threats

2008-07-07 Fox News \Catholicism\Catholic Church\neocon reality inversion\religion's track record\hypocrisy http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378081,00.html Student Who Took Religious Icon Getting Death Threats &ldquo;Webster Cook says he smuggled a Eucharist, a small bread wafer that to Catholics symbolic of the Body of Christ after a priest blesses it, out of mass, didn't eat it as he was supposed to do, but instead walked with it. .. "...if anything were to qualify as a hate crime, to us this seems like this might be it."&rdquo;  Original link no longer finds the referenced content. Webster Cook says he smuggled a Eucharist, a small bread wafer that to Catholics symbolic of the Body of Christ after a priest blesses it, out of mass, didn't eat it as he was supposed to do, but instead walked with it.

Catholics worldwide became furious.

"We don't know 100% what Mr. Cook's motivation was," said Susan Fani, a spokesperson with the local Catholic diocese. "However, if anything were to qualify as a hate crime, to us this seems like this might be it.

No, this is not a hate crime. Nobody was injured or threatened. With that one statement (assuming it isn't contradicted by other Catholics), the Catholic Church has lost all moral authority. They can't say anything about the "sanctity of human life" before birth, because they have shown that they don't give a damn about the sanctity of human life after birth.

Commentary:
 * 2008-07-08 IT'S A FRACKIN' CRACKER! (Pharyngula) - also cites 2008-07-05 Body Of Christ Snatched...
 * 2008-07-09:
 * Profaning the Sacred (En Tequila Es Verdad)
 * Electric Halibut - also cites 2008-07-06 Student Holds Eucharist Hostage
 * 2008-07-12
 * Christian Lunatics Issue Death Threats Over a Cracker
 * Stealing the Eucharist is not a Hate Crime

Righteous outrage and censorship:
 * 2008-07-06 Student Holds Eucharist Hostage

Faitheistic apologetics:   
 * 2008-07-26 He's Just a Frackin' Adolescent Ass