Re: [asa] Nailing sacred things to the wall... and idols

I did not know that PZ had released a video? All I have found so far is

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/the_great_desecration.php

Shoddy reporting perhaps?

How would you feel if I told you that Meyers ripped out a page Genesis?

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Dehler, Bernie
<bernie.dehler@intel.com> wrote:
> From: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=33156
>
> "The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and the Christian
> Anti-Defamation Commission are calling for disciplinary action against
> biologist Paul Z. Myers. On July 24, he placed a video on his blog in which
> the Eucharist – the communion wafer that Catholics believe is the body and
> blood of Christ after it has been consecrated by a priest during Mass – was
> pierced with a rusty nail."
>
>
>
> This made me think. Would people on this ASA list be upset if Myers took a
> Bible and nailed it to the wall? How about a "Bible on CD?" What about a
> "Bible on cassette?" Just wondering as to some opinions. I suspect that
> nailing a Bible would upset many, but nailing a cassette would mean nothing
> … why is that? Both the book and cassette are only vehicles for
> transmitting the message. Can this reveal if the Bible (in book form) has
> become an idol in the minds of some?
>
>
>
>

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