The progressives tried to do talk radio with Air America, but it failed (they ran out of money). Conservative talk radio is funded by advertisers and as long as people keep tuning in, they will not go away. Unless of course the government tries to ban freedom of speech, which is highly unlikely.

The difference between conservative talk radio and the mainstream media, is that conservative radio doesn’t deny it is conservative, whereas the mainstream media tries to claim they aren’t bias in any way. Now who’s being fair?

Great quote by Jordan Sparks. Was she responding to something Russel Brand said?

And then Sully was pretending to scare kids in a bunk bed like this.

In the matter of Mr. Meyers, he has lost: the university has taken the link off of their site. They have recognized his folly and have acted accordingly.

I consider the matter closed.

Read, for example, Deuteronomy 7:1-5 (RSV):
Deut.7

[1] “When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Gir’gashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per’izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb’usites, seven nations greater and mightier than yourselves,

[2] and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them.
[3] You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.
[4] For they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
[5] But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Ashe’rim, and burn their graven images with fire.
[6]
“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

The intentional desecration of any person, group, or religion is WRONG.

Lets debate to topic. If you have an analogy, fine but be sure it follows the rules and is not being used simply to cloud of confuse the issue. In this case religious respect.

Bob

The only point of my letter that was incorrect was that the blog was operated by the university. In that case, assuming that the University distances itself from his opinion (in the form of disclaimer on the website, or the removal of the link), then I would not call for any of the items I mentioned in my letter. The apology would be called for if he was making the blog post under the auspices of the Univeristy. He doesn’t need to apologize to me for not understanding nor believing in the Catholic faith. Also, I did not call for the UCF student’s expulsion, The Catholic League did.

I have no problems with people expressing their opinions as Mr. Myers did. I find his opinion to be crude and not befitting his position as a professor. I have the right to disagree with him, and with you apparently, on the validity of the Eucharist as the real presence of God.

And you are correct. Just because I believe it, doesn’t make it so in the same way that just because YOU don’t believe in it, doesn’t it make it NOT so.

As for Christians not being like Christ. Yes, none of us are. He was perfect. If Ghandi expects perfection then perhaps he ought to have worshiped himself. I don’t think he would have done so. There are many people who do not follow every tenet of their faith. Is that a condemnation of the faith? Or perhaps a condemnation of all faiths?

If you truly believe so, then I believe you are expecting the impossible.

What other things that you believe to be true are also incorrect?

Perhaps that when a priest mumbles some latin words over an ordinary cracker, that the cracker then transubstantiates itself into the physical flesh of Jesus?

If you want to believe in such 10th century magic, that is your right. If disrespect of it offends you, be offended. But, just because you believe in it, doesn’t make it so.

But your being offended does not justify the calls for the expusion of the UCF student, nor the call for censure of Myers, and certainly not the death threats that both have received from “good Christians”.

In this instance, the Catholics, like Donohue, who refer to this as “vile” and a “hate crime”, are as foolish as the muslims who insisted that the Danish newspaper be shut down for printing improper images of thier prophet.

No apology is required from Myers simply because you perceive his statements to be blasphemous and sacriligious, just as the Danish newspaper did not need to apologize for running the cartoon.

As Ghandi once said - “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Why can’t your Christians be more like your Christ?”

In Mr. Meyer’s case, the hurt IS THE INTENTION.

They may realize that Hindus would be offended, but they have a fundamental difference in the belief of that that cow represents. There is no malicious intent to the Hindu community.

That’s not the case here with Mr. Myers. He intends to do harm to Catholics simply for the sake of offense, which is what we find offensive.

Indeed, if we started prohibiting desecration equally
for all religioins, you would probably be in violation
of someone’s religion right now.

Otherwise, you will be back to a social paradigm where
you try to impose religious uniformity of a dominant
religion, and that is what the U.S. tried to avoid.

One day you may have a Muslim majority in some
areas (you already do, in fact), and Muslims will have their own rules of desecration imposed on Catholics. What would you do then? We already have this with people being killed
for cartoons of Muhammad.

No single religion can impose its notion of desecration
on the rest of us. That protects us in practicing as
we deem fit. And an omnipotent God does not need you to protect his wafers.

Desecration is much different than consumption. We Catholics also consume the Eucharist. Do you think a Hindu would be offended if someone started tearing off the limbs of cows, defecating on them, and mocking the Hindu faith? Of course, and rightly so.

So good for you for sending the letter! Let’s pray

As for the blog, the link is available from University of Minnesota Morris pages. If they don’t approve of the content of externally linked pages, they should warn their audience about the contents of external links.

http://www.f3forums.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=895

Thanks