A student is Recieving Death HTreats From Catholics

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Student Who Took Religious Icon Getting Death Threats
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) --A UCF student claims he’s getting death threats for messing with something sacred.
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Webster Cook says he smuggled a Eucharist, a small bread wafer that to Catholics symbolic of the Body of Christ after a priest blesses it, out of mass, didn’t eat it as he was supposed to do, but instead walked with it.
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Catholics worldwide became furious.
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I don’t understand this at all. I can understand getting somewhat upset over stealing something from a Church, but death threats?

That’s carrying things way too far.

And it’s bad because it gives a bad reputation to Catholics to people like atheists. It’s this kind of nonsense that drives people to lose their faith.

These Catholics should be admonished and ridiculed for their junk.
 
Such stories cause my veracity meter to flicker. THis sounds like much ado over a mortal sin, but no more than that committed by Catholics unworthy to receive, and who do so anyway. Death threats? Sounds more like a publicity stunt, and I saw no documentation of such threats.

I don’t lend much credence to this one.

Christ’s peace.
 
I wouldn’t trust a person who took a host from Mass to tell the truth. Maybe he is, who knows? And if the people are calling in death threats how does he know they are really Catholic?
 
Furthermore, even if this student did receive death threats, how can we be certain that they were made by Catholics?

What could possibly be easier (especially considering that this is summer and the ‘youth’ have more time to get on the computers --not that I am specifically accusing ANYBODY)–for a person to claim–FALSELY–“I am a catholic. You should die for what you did you evil person. Watch out, we’re gonna get you”.

And then post again. And again. And again. Goodness, a reasonably ‘techno’ person could send hundreds of death threats (and make it look like they came from different places too despite how we’re always told that our ISP is ‘gonna show up’. But we know there are ways. . .)

Of course (lest I be accused of missing the point of how AWFUL it is to ‘threaten death’ --and it is), or worse, of attempting to ‘whitewash Catholics’ etc.

If any Catholic (indeed any person) seriously threatens to harm or kill another person, that is gravely wrong.

If any person ‘jokingly’, or maliciously, etc. ‘threatens’ to harm or kill another person, it’s still wrong. I don’t care if they don’t ‘mean’ it, it is still wrong.

And of course it is certainly wrong if a person not only ‘threatens’ another, but lies about his/her religious orientation in order to impugn a particular religious group and make that GROUP (instead of the original offender) appear to be the villian of the piece.
 
First, this has been discussed on the News Forums.

Second, while I don’t condone anyone making death threats against anybody, the FoxOrlando link is a little misleading. It’s not an “Icon”, and it’s not “symbolic” of the Body & Blood of Christ after the priest “blesses it”. It IS the Body and Blood of Christ! (and the priest doesn’t “bless it”, he Consecrates it, while acting “In Persona Christi”, using the very words Christ did at the Last Supper). This young man is supposedly a Catholic, he should know how sacred the Eucharist is. You don’t “remove it from your mouth” (GROSS!) to show someone (who wants to see something that was just in someone’s mouth, anyway!?). He apparently got upset b/c a lady grabbed him by the arm when she saw that he hadn’t consumed the Host. Once again, as a Catholic, he should understand why that would upset someone! Then taking It home and holding It “hostage” until the BISHOP-what did he have to do w/ it?!-apologized?? IMO, he was just being a big baby, a spoiled rotten little brat, which, unfortunately, is common among that age group :mad: . Grow up, already, and have some respect for the Catholic faith (which is supposedly his own).

In Christ,

Ellen
 
I think the man is making up the part about death threats. Why would anyone want to make those kinds of threats over this? Or, for that matter, anything else? I think it’s overblown.
 
Its called “media hype”…I guess no-one got shot and killed, robbed or raped in Orlando…so the media put a “spin” on that story. Then again…maybe the “clown” had his friends make death threats…but like one other poster stated…the story “lacked documentation”, thus I would write it all off as “rampant hyperbole”.

Personally…I can’t imagine a Catholic making death threats… I would think that we as a group would “pity” someone like this… and pray that he gets his act together.
 
Silly man, silly story. This fellow does not know what he is playing with. The Lord God can take care of himself, and will.
 
I assure you those threats were real and happened.

We can’t for a moment think that we are any different from anyone else. Muslim’s are normally peaceful people, but there were radicals that partook in 9/11. I would venture to say that there were Catholics that are willing to go to the extreme for their religion as well, however miss guided this venture might be!
Then again so would a handful of people that, for good reason, are standing up against someone who is so immoral that he would walk into a sacred event and disrespect an entire religion for his own selfish reasons. It marks a time when people forget the title of Catholic, Baptist, ect. and stand up against someone that is purposely disrespecting humanities beliefs and questioning their belief in it. I wish no harm upon Mr. Cook, but I don’t blame people for being mad and expressing it. Let’s just pray for everyone’s safety that it stops at words.
 
sndguy444 said:
I assure you those threats were real and happened.

We can’t for a moment think that we are any different from anyone else. Muslim’s are normally peaceful people, but there were radicals that partook in 9/11. I would venture to say that there were Catholics that are willing to go to the extreme for their religion as well, however miss guided this venture might be!
Then again so would a handful of people that, for good reason, are standing up against someone who is so immoral that he would walk into a sacred event and disrespect an entire religion for his own selfish reasons. It marks a time when people forget the title of Catholic, Baptist, ect. and stand up against someone that is purposely disrespecting humanities beliefs and questioning their belief in it. I wish no harm upon Mr. Cook, but I don’t blame people for being mad and expressing it. Let’s just pray for everyone’s safety that it stops at words.
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And you know for sure that they were Catholics? You know the people that made the supposed threats?
 
I personally know Webster! I am in an organization at UCF with him and we are very involved in what is, has, and will go on with him. I don’t defend him, cause there is no defense for stupid actions, but through our organization on campus I am connected to him. I just thought it was important to set records straight and keep people in a better loop then the newspaper.👍
 
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Great! Where do things stand right now?
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Try reading post 9 where I said all I know of what is going on. Not much has changed. He is still in limbo with SGA and other organizations, and he hasn’t been hurt physically despite the threats
 
I’m relieved to hear that he hasn’t been injured. What a shame all of this is happening. Has he offered to make amends?
 
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