Wacky Wednesday

I felt that it was time for another installment of Wacky Wednesday when I read this post over at Pharyngula. Webster Cook, a university student, has come under attack for taking the Eucharist, the Catholic communion cracker that had been blessed by the priest, out of the church.

When I read this post the first time I laughed so hard that I had tears coming down my face. I was waiting for PZ to say that this was some kind of joke or an article that he found on The Onion. Then when I read the news articles (don't miss this one too) I realized that this wasn't a joke and that this student's life is actually being turned upside down because of the loonies that believe this cracker is the body of Christ.

Vive Christus Rex a Catholic blogger talks about the roadmap to save Cook. Which includes apologizing to everyone including Bill Donohue, taking 6 months of sensitivity counseling, doing community service, dropping all charges against the students that threatened him, and accepting any punishment the school gives him. All that is required for taking a cracker out of a church?

This seems absolutely absurd to me! Have these people lost their minds? It is a cracker. I am not sure that the Catholic church realizes this, but I have a feeling there are going to be many more people taking the Eucharist out of the church now just to piss them off even more. In fact, I think that I am going to go to mass just to do that and I would encourage anyone else to do the same. I am not advocating disrupting the service I am just saying that you should quietly take it out without anyone knowing and then post a picture of it on your blog or website.

Let the cracker collecting begin!

Wacky Wednesday

I thought it might be fun on Wednesdays to highlight the most absurd religious idea, article or whatever that I could find. I also would be more than willing to take suggestions, if you find something that you feel is utterly crazy free to e-mail it to me.

For todays post I would like to share an article from Answers in Genesis with you. This article is about defending their young earth view and explaining that if Christians didn't hold true to the young earth view then they were rejecting the Bible in favor of science.

The whole idea that the Earth is only a few thousand years old is so absurd that it makes my brain hurt. I am not going to spend time during this post explaining why the earth can't be only a few thousand years old since I feel that the majority of theists aren't holders of this crazy idea and there is already a lot of information available supporting the fact that science can be trusted when it comes to dating the Earth.

I would instead like to focus on the idea presented in the article that academic success shouldn't be celebrated. They are pushing the thought that Christians should close their minds to science and trust the Bible alone. I personally love to learn I am always trying to learn as much as I can about everything and anything. If the Bible were true why would the God be so worried about people learning as much as they could about this world?

There is a theme throughout the bible to just blindly believe like a child, don't question what God says. Christians are also likened to sheep. I know a lot of Christians that love to think of themselves as sheep. Do they realize what that means? Sheep don't think, they just follow orders blindly.

Don't strive be sheep! Strive to learn as much as you can! There is so much out there to learn and discover. Be very skeptical of anyone who says that everything should be accepted blindly with childlike faith, instead of testing it using scientifically proven methods.