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Myers regularly rants against religion, the religious and religious institutions (e.g. churches) on his blog. He has called evangelical Christianity "a blight upon the earth,"<ref>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/03/left_or_right_religion_and_pol.php/</ref> religious people "ignorant, deluded, wicked, foolish, or oppressed victims of obsolete mythologies,"<ref>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/07/im_surrounded.php</ref> and considers every church to be a "parasitic institution that contributes nothing to the tax base and encourages further ignorance in the population."<ref>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/07/how_do_you_save_small_town_cha.php</ref>
 
Myers regularly rants against religion, the religious and religious institutions (e.g. churches) on his blog. He has called evangelical Christianity "a blight upon the earth,"<ref>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/03/left_or_right_religion_and_pol.php/</ref> religious people "ignorant, deluded, wicked, foolish, or oppressed victims of obsolete mythologies,"<ref>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/07/im_surrounded.php</ref> and considers every church to be a "parasitic institution that contributes nothing to the tax base and encourages further ignorance in the population."<ref>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/07/how_do_you_save_small_town_cha.php</ref>
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=== ''Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed'' ===
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Myers appeared in the film ''[[Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed]]''. In the film, Myers compared religion to knitting and said it should be nothing more than "something fun that people get together and do on the weekend and really doesn't affect their life as much as it has been so far."<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHiZjOH1NmQ</ref> Up to and after the release of the film, Myers viciously attacked the film and its makers many times and also engaged in very bizarre behavior. Two of the most notable incidents involved his failed attempt to crash a showing of the film at the [[Mall of America]]<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/science/21expelledw.html</ref> and his rude crashing and disruption (including plugging himself) of a conference call held by ''Expelled'''s producers.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYAblaZmogA</ref><ref>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/i_always_aim_to_misbehave.php</ref>
  
 
=== Communion host ===
 
=== Communion host ===

Revision as of 04:57, July 15, 2008

Paul Zachary Myers a.k.a. PZ Myers is an activist in the creation-evolution controversy contributing to The Panda's Thumb and Pharyngula blogs. Myers is also an associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM)[1]

Myers commented, while listening to Michael Behe lecture on Intelligent design, that "In science, we scream a lot."[1] According to Evolution News, he opposes democratically elected school boards deciding how evolution should be taught.[2]

Militant atheism

Myers is an outspoken atheist who has openly advocated the elimination of religion, likening it to illiteracy [3] His language, at times, is extremely militant and laced with many vile expletives. In a diatribe in which he described those who believe in the Bible as "lunatics" and "bigots," Myers said:

I say, screw the polite words and careful rhetoric. It's time for scientists to break out the steel-toed boots and brass knuckles, and get out there and hammer on the lunatics and idiots. [4]

Myers regularly rants against religion, the religious and religious institutions (e.g. churches) on his blog. He has called evangelical Christianity "a blight upon the earth,"[5] religious people "ignorant, deluded, wicked, foolish, or oppressed victims of obsolete mythologies,"[6] and considers every church to be a "parasitic institution that contributes nothing to the tax base and encourages further ignorance in the population."[7]

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Myers appeared in the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. In the film, Myers compared religion to knitting and said it should be nothing more than "something fun that people get together and do on the weekend and really doesn't affect their life as much as it has been so far."[8] Up to and after the release of the film, Myers viciously attacked the film and its makers many times and also engaged in very bizarre behavior. Two of the most notable incidents involved his failed attempt to crash a showing of the film at the Mall of America[9] and his rude crashing and disruption (including plugging himself) of a conference call held by Expelled's producers.[10][11]

Communion host

On July 8, 2008, Myers posted an entry attacking the Christian practice of Communion. After ridiculing Christians as "petty, hateful, and stupid," and asserting that "Nothing makes them stupider than religion," Myers requested that his readers steal consecrated Communion wafers for him, so that he could desecrate them on camera. This rant predictably resulted in a strongly negative response from Catholics and those who support freedom of religious expression [12]; Myers has since complained about the "hate mail" and "death threats" he has received, comparing the defense of Communion to a "witch hunt." To date, the University of Minnesota has not taken official action against Myers for his inflammatory remarks, other than to remove the link to his blog from his faculty page.[13] Myers quickly ducked behind the "satire and protest" defense[14] and backed down on his threat to desecrate Communion wafers.[15]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Mad Scientist City Pages, Volume 26 - Issue 1303, November 23, 2005 Cover story
  2. ↑ Egnor, Michael P.Z. Myers: Darwinists Know What’s Best for Your Children Evolution News December 18, 2007
  3. ↑ http://www.atheistrev.com/2008/03/pz-myers-on-eliminating-religion.html
  4. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20070420142719/http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/perspective/
  5. ↑ http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/03/left_or_right_religion_and_pol.php/
  6. ↑ http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/07/im_surrounded.php
  7. ↑ http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/07/how_do_you_save_small_town_cha.php
  8. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHiZjOH1NmQ
  9. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/science/21expelledw.html
  10. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYAblaZmogA
  11. ↑ http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/i_always_aim_to_misbehave.php
  12. ↑ http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1459
  13. ↑ http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1460
  14. ↑ Like a madman shooting firebrands or deadly arrows is a man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I was only joking!" (Proverbs 26:18-19)
  15. ↑ http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/24313139.html

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