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Crackerphilia

Jul 12, 08

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While it seems everything is being monopolized these days with Microsoft, Apple, MPAA, RIAA, and your local ISPs, etc…the bigotry industry remains a largely competitive market. Apparently some Christians are not content with a Muslim monopoly on bigotry, and a certain sect decided to have their own ridiculously insignificant subject of disproportionate whining, except this time it’s a cracker instead of line drawings.

What happened? Some guy decided to smuggle a cracker from the ceremony, and now he’s getting death threats. From Fox (Full Article):

A UCF student claims he’s getting death threats for messing with something sacred.
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.

PZ Meyers wrote an amazing commentary on this: