Professor Paul Z. Myers clearly has issues

Okay, I don't normally blog about these sort of things here, but this is something which is close to my heart. And, by heart, I don't mean the red, squishy, four-chambered thing in my chest. No, I mean it metaphorically - meaning I care about this.

Just so I can bring you all up to speed, Professor Paul Z. Myers is a teacher at the University of Minnesota, and he is an anti-Christian atheist, witnessed by the fact that he asked for a Eucharistic Host to be delivered to him so that he could descrate it. He said that it was "just a ***-**** wafer" and other such words.

Someone (we don't know who, but God does . . . heh-heh-heh) delivered him one. And he then proceeded to desecrate the Host by driving a rusty nail through the Eucharist and then throwing Jesus into the trash. He also tore out pages of the Qu'ran and Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" and nailed them to the Host as well.

Okay, this presents some issues. Obviously, what he did was wrong and disgusting - but we know that. We know that even if we don't believe in the Real Presence; I don't go around and burn copies of flags whose countries I don't like. It's just impolite. And for those of us who do believe in the Real Presence, well, it's someone physically attacking the Lord of the Universe. And that's awful. However . . .

i) Where did you learn descration, oh dumb ass? Seriously - you put a nail through the Host? Was that the best that your doubtless expensive education could come up with? Sheesh, numbnuts - there are children out there planning to defecate on Hosts, burn them, engage them in a whole slew of horrible things. And you drive a nail through Jesus? Wow - like He's never had that happen before.

The quality of persecutors is really dropping - I expect some inventiveness.

ii) Are you flippin' insane, Professor Paul X. Myers of the University of Minnesota (link to their website here, picture of professor Myers here)? You nailed pages torn from the Qu'ran to the Host? You total asshat - are you looking to get killed? Everyone knows that I don't think the Qu'ran is sacred - I am on record as saying that Islam is a false religion. But I don't go around advertising this fact on national media, nor have I ever torn up a copy of the Qu'ran. Many Muslims react very badly to this sort of thing - or have the demonstrations against the Danish cartoons slipped your shrived atheist mind, Professor Paul Z. Myers of the University of Minnesota, myersp@morris.umn.edu, 320-589-6343, Div of Science and Math?

Seriously, what crazy notion taught you that was a good idea? Do you have a death wish? You can probably count the people killed by Catholics in the last hundred years because of desecration of Hosts on one hand; I can't even begin to remember how many people were killed by the riots and so forth torched off by ONE set of cartoons!

Muslims are . . . volatile people. At least some of them are. And those that aren't tend to not exercise a civilizing influence on the violent ones.

(All information about Professor Myers taken from the University of Minnesota website, and all is publically available. Please call him - I'm sure he'd appreciate it. I don't think he speaks Farsi, however.)

iii) Do you have a very small penis, Professor? Seriously. What is the point in doing this? You don't agree with Christianity - is Christianity hurting you? Did some Catholic schoolgirl throw you over for the Quarterback at your prom? Did a priest cut you up in traffic? Or, more likely, do you simply not like Christianity because it encourages the things which you personally don't like (social responsibility, honesty, sexual ethics) and is against the things you are for (homosexuality, atheistic humanism, communism, hating America?)

But if you don't agree, what's the point of this? It doesn't achieve anything - except to make people upset. Does it advance your cause of making Christianity extinct? Not at all - in fact, it might do just the opposite. Your arguments now sound like a bag-lady screaming at the traffic.

So why do you do this? Answer - because while it doesn't advance your cause, it makes you feel good and powerful, doesn't it? It validates you as a MAN. Because you get to show your power and dominion not by actually dominating anyone, but rather by simply upsetting people. You're like the kid who can't push the big kids off the swing, but you can come in at night and spread dog poo on the seat. Yeah! That'll show 'em!

You are a sad, pathetic indivdual. I will pray for you - not merely that you can convert and say you are sorry before the Islamic terrorists get to you, but also so that you can grow a pair.

In conclusion, I want to say this. We all - Christian, Jew, Muslim - should pray for Professor Paul Z. Myers. To any who may read this - Muslim or otherwise - I do not encourage or condone violence. That would totally defeat the aim of what we are trying to show - namely, that Professor Myers is a spiteful, vindictive man and that we are bigger, calmer and more grown up than that.

If anyone does attack Professor Myers, I will condemn those actions. In fact, I condemn anyone who is planning it or hope it will happen. Frankly, I think it WILL happen - I've seen enough of the world to predict that. I hope it doesn't, but I think it will.

However, please do contact him, write him emails, ring him up. Tell him that he is wrong. The Catholic League is currently mounting a legal case against Professor Myers, I believe - arguing that he has violated the terms of the University of Minnesota.

So, those contact details might not be current for much longer.