Why Catholics Are Right

[Angrboda]

This is an excerpt from a book called 'Why Catholics are Right,' saw it in the newspaper this morning. If this is the one excerpt chosen to support the book's claim, then wow... pathetic. Just pathetic.
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And this last quote, below, is just priceless. I can't believe he thinks the two situations are equal. By desecrating a Holocaust memorial, you're disrespecting millions of actual innocent lives lost. But by desecrating some communion wafers? You're disrespecting an entity that almost certainly doesn't exist except in your collective delusions! Tragic real-life facts are NOT the same as personal beliefs that are unsupported by evidence, no matter how deeply they are held.

Not sure I agree here, you don't get to make the call about the truth of someone else's beliefs unless you can present a compelling interest that justifies your doing so. I don't think those are really Christ cookies, but then nobodies asking that I believe. If they do so, then bitch. Now it's a separate issue whether some kinds of beliefs have rights. I'd say no, but then I'm not going to go around pissing in realist's wheaties with my anti-realist mojo either. I think there is a place for realizing that some beliefs mean more to some people than life itself. If they didn't we'd have a hellish time getting our young boys and girls to fight our wars.

DON'T TOUCH THAT WAFER -- IT'S MINE!