I’ve been reading the response to PZ Myers’s unfortunate blog post.  It has been dubbed many things, but the one I like is “Wafergate,” which is what I will stick to in this post.  I think that this issue is getting far more attention than it deserves, as PZ Myers is little more than a bitter and sour little man with an insanely popular blog.  I can’t understand his popularity, even with atheists, because each of his virulent posts reveals nothing but hatred for religion.  Such focused and intense hatred isn’t good for a person.

For the benefit of those of you that have no idea what is going on, let me start from the beginning.  Webster Cook, a University of Florida student, palmed a Eucharist at a Catholic Mass instead of eating it.  He took it out of the chapel and held it hostage for several days. Read the rest of this entry →