Stercorarians and The Magic Biscuit - A Googlewhack
Thursday, August 14th, 2008. 
Crackergate is over and dusted. I did my bit by writing to the Dean of The University of Minnesota in support of PX Myers and followed the story avidly. I have to admit to a bit of queasiness simply because it had a faint scent of unpleasantness about it. Not that it was in the same league of a Nazi leaving a pig’s head on the steps of a Synagogue or a Klan member burning a cross - but there was a gentle perfume on the wind that reminded me of them. In the UK many blogs characterized the situation as “The Affair Of The Magic Biscuit” - a rather more literary reflection! So… …There I am seated on the loo with a copy of “Everything You Know About God Is Wrong” and I happen upon the essay by John G. Bourke entitled “Holy Shit - Excrement and Religion” and discover that there is, in the annals of the catholic church, an old argument going on. What happens to the host AFTER you eat it? Stercanorarians thought that “the host was liable to digestion and all its consequences, like other food.” I presume this heresy was defeated but I am not sure what the current belief of Catholics is. I’d like to ask readers for enlightenment. * Googlewhacks are usually 2 word combinations. This word actually appears in the 1841 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and, together with the word biscuit, was a Googlewhack. Now this post is up it no longer is!
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- http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/the_great_desecration.php
