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''posted [http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2008/07/student-holds-eucharist-hostage.html here], and scrubbed (all evidence that I had posted was removed) by the admin:''
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I've moved some stuff I had been collecting here to more appropriate pages which have now been created:
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* [[2008 sacred wafer scandal]] has the blogosphere-reaction timeline
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:Seems to me that by attempting to elevate this harmless prank to the status of "hate crime", the Catholic Church has now lost any moral authority it might have had. How can it plausibly claim to care about the sanctity of human life when it apparently believes that the "improper" use of a piece of ritually-blessed cracker is worse than murder?
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* [[Talk:2008-07-06 Student Holds Eucharist Hostage]] has my comment on the CMR posting
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--[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 15:11, 14 July 2008 (EDT)
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:Not only was this nowhere near being a "hate crime", it wasn't even a <i>crime</i>: Mr. Cook was <i>given the cracker to eat</i> for goodness' sake. Even calling it "desecration" is a stretch that defies reason.
 
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:They can excommunicate him for violating the rules if they must, but leave it at that. All these threats and harassment are juvenile in the extreme -- far more juvenile than Mr. Cook's miniscule prank, which has unexpectedly done the world a significant service by revealing the level of thinking to which religion apparently confines some people.
 
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''The admin apparently closed comments after scrubbing my comment, claiming that we weren't following rules, i.e. being polite. Sheer hypocrisy.''
 
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''A comment before mine which was removed less severely:''
 
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Amazing! All this anger and fury over a cracker, but when children are being molested not a word of complaint?
 
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Interesting "morality" you got there.
 
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--[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 08:33, 9 July 2008 (EDT)
 

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