Here’s an example of religious “thinking” I came across recently:
A former Saudi diplomat-turned cleric, Sheikh Muhammad Munajid, has described Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse as “one of Satan’s soldiers” who turns everything around it impure. The cleric, who worked with the Saudi embassy in Washington D C, said that under Sharia, both household mice and their cartoon counterparts must be killed. According to a translation prepared by the Middle East Media Research Institute, an American press monitoring service, he said: “The mouse is one of Satan’s soldiers and is steered by him. If a mouse falls into a pot of food – if the food is solid, you should chuck out the mouse and the food touching it, and if it is liquid – you should chuck out the whole thing, because the mouse is impure.”
In 1583 Jeremias convened a council in Constantinople (establishing the Orthodox Church). It decreed in part:
That whoever says that our Lord Jesus Christ at the Mystic Supper had unleavened bread (made without yeast), like that of the Jews, and not leavened bread, that is to say, bread raised with yeast, let him depart far away from us and let him be anathema as one having Jewish views and those of Apollinarios and bringing dogmas of the Armenians into the Church, on which account let him be doubly anathema.
So some theists want Mickey Mouse (has anyone informed them he’s a fictional character?) dead and others insist you have to say that Jesus ate yeast or you can’t join their club. And they wonder why we consider them illogical, perhaps even mentally challenged.
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