On Aug 24, 2004, at 1:02 PM, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
I just talked with a former Dominican priest who prefaced his remarks by saying that his knowledge is 30 years out of date, but then said
* because of transubstantiation, the wine is the blood and the bread is the flesh
Yes, transubstantiation is up there high in Catholic hooey, along with a triune god and a virgin mother and other equally impossible things.
My question is whether a Catholic vegetarian can take the eucharist. (And, by extension, whether ANY Catholic can take in on Fridays. Was Jesus made of fish? Or is he instead a special meat, a la Holy Cow? And who exactly decided fish is "not meat"?)
Thus, believers would know they are engaging in cannibalism each time they partook of bread and/or wine in holy communion, but a non-believing policeman out to make an arrest would only see them drinking some wine and eating some bread.
You'd think either the ritual deicide or symbolic cannibalism would cue them in to the real roots of their cult.
Alas, no -- that requires critical thinking, which religion requires the absence of.
-- WthmO
The best way to be free from religious terrorism is to be free from religion. --
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