Again, religion....

This is an exerpt of a short letter written to the editor of an American newspaper, regarding an article it recently printed:

"Second, the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t now, nor has it ever offered a wafer and wine as Communion. We do offer the body and blood of Jesus Christ, which in John’s gospel he proclaims to be our source of life in Him. To refer to the Eucharist as a wafer and wine is to demean the value of this sacrament, seemingly equating it to an evening snack.

I suggest that Mr. Kush apologize for his lack of respect to Bishop Reilly and the faith of the Roman Catholic Church.

Rev. PAUL M. LaPALME

Millbury "

I see. So the press describing it the Catholic way (saying that every Sunday, people gather together at a fixed location to feast on someone's flesh and drink their blood hence believing they will come to heaven through it) would be better? If I claimed to believe that about consuming anyone in general, I'd get sent to jail and spend the rest of my life in a psychiatric ward. But yet again, everything's excused as long as you do it in the name of religion. Why is it that someone's religion is seen as something that automatically deserves respect from everybody else; more respect than any other matters out there? To us sane people; it is just a wafer.

Also, it seems that yet another woman (why is it always women in their mid-fourties?) has seen God in her breakfast.

Ahh, religion.