I've been following that, specifically the silliness surrounding Dr. P.Z. Myers' blog Pharyngula and his promise to "desecrate" a cracker.

Death threats.

Over a cracker.

I mean, really.

it isn't just irrational... it's fucking insanity.

death threats - i mean come on... meanwhile look how many hypocrites they pass their host out to every sunday.  if the wafer really was god i think she/he/it/whatever should be me more offended there.

there are real problems in the world and this is exactly why nothing gets done about them.  if a fraction of this time and energy was spent on actually helping people or education or hell just sitting home watching porn, the world would be a much better place.

when i was a child they used to indoctrinate us to hate the satan worshipers (which btw was supposedly analogous to atheists) by telling us horror stories of how they would steal hosts just to torture them in their cat skinning fetus consuming anal sex rituals.  we had to accept the host directly in our mouths.

I've always wondered. The catholics believe that the communion wafer is actually the body of christ and the communion wine (grape juice lol) is actually the blood of christ, right? The council of trent confirms this mystical transformation which is totally irrational. In protestant churches, communion is taken only maybe once a year. Do protestants view the communion as the catholics do or is it just a symbolic ceremony? I was a southern baptist and we did communion very rarely so I don't know much about this silly little ceremony. The pastors always filled precious time riding motorcycles off the stage of churches or singing hymns telling god how great it is to answer questions that the congregation might have.