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Lily wrote
That entirely misses the point. The body and blood of Jesus Christ, soul and divinity, under the species of bread, have been profaned. You might just as well flog him and crucify him again. It doesn't matter that you don't believe this or understand it. You don't mess with those things except at your own risk.
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Missing the point? I adressed the fact that I don't understand the scale of the reaction, but I said I can see
why they are pissed. I would be pissed off if something I held sacred was taken from me, yes. I would never threaten to kill somebody to retrieve it. The entire charade by the student (who I think was an idiot for doing this anyway) was obviously to provoke some kind of negative reaction.
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Now Catholics don't, as a matter of policy, cut people's heads off-- even for this, which is why that unspeakable toad felt free to do what he did. However, there is no telling how an unstable person or a number of unstable people may react in a situation like this.
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Ominous quotation.
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As always, when reading the secular press on religious matters, my IQ dropped a few points. It was not very well reported, as to the why and what of the matter. However, to answer your question about the priest, it does look as though he was calm and did say what little could be said to keep the matter from blowing up. This one is out of his hands, though.
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I'm interested, Lily. How would you propose the article would be reported in an unbiased fashion? Do you mean that the slant should have been more in favour of the people whose beliefs were disrepected, or the idiots who think they can begin to threaten a, frankly, immature student into getting their own way?