I was worried this would become a fad among the Dawkins groupies. For people so intellectually superior, they sure are incredibly childish. I just hope all or at least some of these are unconsecrated wafers. Of course, Christ Himself can’t be damaged by these antics; it is the souls of these people that are damaged. I wish we had the fairly benign Carl Sagan type non-believers back; now it seems they’ve returned to the Voltaire model of mockery. Not content to simply be atheists, they are compelled to be bombastically anti-religious and especially anti-Christian. Their bigotry is no different from that of old anti-Catholic groups like the No-Nothing Party or the KKK. “It’s just a cracker!” they say. Even if it is, so what? It’s our cracker. Do I walk into your house, throw out your mother’s ashes, and say “It’s just dust!” Their deliberate antagonism is going to lead nowhere good for anybody.
Perhaps the Church should, as an emergency protective measure, allow churches to start distributing Communion solely in the form of the Precious Blood, until these bullies get bored and go torment someone else. It’s awfully difficult to steal a sip of liquid.
