Catholics issue death threats over eucharist cracker

PZ Myers is a Minnesota University professor who has put out a call for a cracker. Due to all the fanfare over a cracker (read below) he has said: Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers? There's no way I can personally get them — my local churches have stakes prepared for me, I'm sure — but if any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I'll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won't be tempted to hold it hostage (no, not even if I have a choice between returning the Eucharist and watching Bill Donohue kick the pope in the balls, which would apparently be a more humane act than desecrating a goddamned cracker), but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web. I shall do so joyfully and with laughter in my heart. If you can smuggle some out from under the armed guards and grim nuns hovering over your local communion ceremony, just write to me and I'll send you my home address.

Webster Cook says he smuggled a cracker (which is symbolic of Jesus' body) out of the church. But not without church officials physically attempting to obtain the cracker. In that article, one priest compaired this to kidnapping. Others have called it a intolerable hate crime.

As Professor Myers states: Wait, what? Holding a cracker hostage is now a hate crime? The murder of Matthew Shephard was a hate crime. The murder of James Byrd Jr. was a hate crime. This is a goddamned cracker. Can you possibly diminish the abuse of real human beings any further?

Webster Cook received death threats over this and returned the cracker.

The university now has armed security personel standing guard during mass.

I wonder if they would get upset if someone kidnapped some holy water?

Death threats over a religious ritual! It's nice to see religion in the light of day!