Maybe I'm Too Sensitive

I'd appreciate it if some non-Catholic folks would read Larry Doyle's column, "The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum", from the Huffington Post.  It is, in theory, supposed to be satire.  I don't see the funny.  Maybe that's because of the timing.  And maybe it's because I found out real quick that someone who converts to the Catholic faith better be ready for nastiness - it will come from all sides, including other conservative Christians.  And stuff like this smacks more of nastiness than humor:

Unlike Christians, Santorum and his fellow Roman Catholics participate in a barbaric ritual dating back two millennia, a "mass" in which a black-robed cleric casts a spell over some bread and wine, transfiguring it into the actual living flesh and blood of their Christ. Followers then line up to eat the Jesus meat and drink his holy blood in a cannibalistic reverie not often seen outside Cinemax.

I'm pretty sure that, satire or not, this would not have been published by HuffPo had it been about Islam.  And maybe that's also a part of why it's so tiresome - the double standard.

The full article is here.  Let me know what you think.