Time Immortal

Jeff Miller, over at The Curt Jester, adds his thoughts to the whole PZ Myers/Eucharistic desecration brouhaha. In perhaps typical fashion, Myers’ intent in desecrating “a Jesus cracker” (his term for the host) was to prove that the host (and presumably, by extension, Jesus) had no real power in this world. The sense one got, in reading him, was that he would conclude, in the absence of his being struck down for engaging in the desecration of something so sacred, that nothing existed which could strike him down.

Or, more plainly: he was trying to goad God into action. Because as we all well know, O Reader, God can be goaded thusly. One wonders exactly how Myers and his disciples can profess, with a straight face, that they are adherents and practitioners of rationalism and reason?

Satan tried to tempt Jesus and his reply from Deuteronomy was “You shall not put the Lord your God to the Test.” This is precisely what the professor is attempting. That Jesus who would not come down off the Cross will in this case do something to prevent his being abused in this manner. That somehow we can make God appear at will by threatening to do something evil.

So the professor is trying to do some materialist’s demonstration that only proves God’s love for us if it proves anything at all. That he loves us so much that he will allow us to abuse him in his sacramental form. He felt the weight of our sins in the Agony of the Garden and continues to bear the weight of our sins that good may prevail. There is Eucharistic desecration daily as people receive Communion unworthily and even those of us who believe can receive Communion can do it without the preparation Communion deserves. Yet he allows alls of this and continues to give us graces to bring us out of of spiritual stupor.

As an ex-atheist I can totally understand P.Z. Myers attitude and ignorance and the only outrage he invokes in me is a turn to prayer for him. So I won’t be making any death threats, just life-after-death threats in that I am praying for him and hope to see him on day in the Beatific Vision.

Just so. In the end, the only thing Myers will prove with his planned desecration is that he is an anti-Catholic bigot and that, just like in the Bible, Jesus willingly bears the insults and slurs of bigots.

For such a man, all we can do is pray. Hardness of heart is a most terrible state of being, and one can only hope that Myers recants of his hatred and pride and is one day welcomed into the glory of the Lord. Failing that, God help him.