Jeffrey Miller

I haven’t commented on the whole Professor
P.Z. Myers debacle, but I
might as well add my two cents.  I am sure that when I was an
atheist I would have applauded him for what he is doing because I was
just as ignorant as he is, if not more.

“I have to do something,” he said in
the interview. “I’m not going to
just let this disappear. It’s just so darned weird that they’re
demanding that I offer this respect to a symbol that means nothing to
me. Something will be done. It won’t be gross. It won’t be totally
tasteless, but yeah, I’ll do something that shows this cracker has no
power. This cracker is nothing.”

This only shows that this shows he has
zero understanding of what he is trying to mock.  That he has
no familiarity with the concepts involved or even a basic understanding
of Christianity and theology.  If he did he would know his
little desecration demonstration proves nothing. 

Satan tried to tempt Jesus and his reply
from Deuteronomy was “You shall not put the Lord your God to the Test.”
This is precisely what the professor is attempting.  That
Jesus who would not come down off the Cross will in this case do
something to prevent his being abused in this manner.   That
somehow we can make God appear at will by threatening to do something
evil.

So the professor is trying to do some
materialist’s demonstration that only proves God’s love for us if it
proves anything at all.  That he loves us so much that he will
allow us to abuse him in his sacramental form.  He felt the
weight of our sins in the Agony of the Garden and continues to bear the
weight of our sins that good may prevail. There is Eucharistic
desecration daily as people receive Communion unworthily and even those
of us who believe can receive Communion can do it without the
preparation Communion deserves.  Yet he allows alls of this
and continues to give us graces to bring us out of of spiritual stupor.

As an ex-atheist I can totally understand
P.Z. Myers attitude and ignorance and the only outrage he invokes in me
is a turn to prayer for him. So I won’t be making any death threats,
just life-after-death threats in that I am praying for him and hope to
see him on day in the Beatific Vision.

A poll conducted by social networking
website MySpace has branded the Catholic Church “out of touch” with
young people, just ahead of its World Youth Day event in Sydney.

Of course what most of these poll indicate
is that people think that the Church is out of touch with the morality
of the modern culture, that it is not an echo chamber for current
societal ethics. The only thing the Church needs to be in touch with is
the Holy Spirit.

Though a poll such as this also points out
the work the Church has to do in evangelization since this wrong
perception needs to be addressed to be able to spread the Gospel.
 But no poll ever asks if people are out of touch with the
Catholic Church.

The Church often gets the rap that all it
talks about is sex and that it is fixated on the issue, when the truth
is that it is her distracter that are hung up on this.  The
protesters at World Youth Day are not wearing shirts attacking the
Church for its teaching on helping the poor.  No protest signs
against loving your neighbor.  There is no “1, 2, 3, 4, we
don’t want saints no more.” No all of the protests are about sex in on
form or another.  Whether it is passing out condoms or
homosexual ranting against the Pope calling him a homophobe the topic
is always sex. Scratch a dissenter and you will always find someone
upset about something in the Church’s teaching on sexual morality.

I do think there is something we need for
all World Youth Days.  A massive incinerator at the entrance
points.  That way people can grab all them condoms being given
out and anti-Catholic tracts and immediately dispose of them.
 Let our enemies waste their money so that they will have less
of it.