Christ on a Cracker

Hate Crime. What comes to mind? How about absconding with a cracker/wafer/desiccated corpse?

PZ Myers:

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Here's a story that will destroy your hopes for a reasonable humanity.

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.

This isn't the stupid part yet. He walked off with a cracker that was put in his mouth, and people in the church fought with him to get it back. It is just a cracker!

Catholics worldwide became furious.

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It is a hate crime say some! Death threats are sent! And the Church is sending special forces nuns (Sadly they won't be the embarrassing comic book versions...I never read Warrior Nun..really.). Really, a nun has been sent for protection. And the university is putting in protection...

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for a CRACKER.

So, a special cracker, eh. Fights evil, made of the body of Christ, and some wheat I hear.

But they have freaking boxes of them in back.

It is a cracker. Let him grab it and run off like an idiot. He looks like an idiot, like a frat boy whose stolen a light bulb for a scavenger hunt. But when you try to tackle him, bar the doors, and scream madly...and then you bring in the university admin and the Church leadership...now you look like the idiot.

But then again you are the one fretting over a cheap, bland cracker.

That is sad.