(August 28, 2015 at 7:45 pm)Spooky Wrote:(August 28, 2015 at 7:12 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: The body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus are substantially present in the Eucharist, but the accidents of bread and wine remain.
This article will help:
Are Catholics Cannibals?
Tim Staples
http://www.catholic.com/blog/tim-staples...-cannibals
That article basically splits hairs to define around cannibalism as a violent act.
Got anything better?
The essay at the link is very funny. It quotes a dictionary for what "cannibalism" is and then ignores the definition and pretends "cannibalism" means something else in order to be able to claim that Catholics do not engage in cannibalism. Of course, Catholics do not engage in cannibalism in the Eucharist, because the bread and wine are bread and wine and not magically something else, but if they did change as Catholic doctrine claims, then Catholics would be cannibals. It follows directly from the meaning of the term "cannibalism" that the essay quotes from a dictionary at the beginning of the article.
Most Protestants are less delusional and nonsensical about the Eucharist ceremony than the Catholics, as most Protestants recognize that they are only engaging in symbolic cannibalism rather than real cannibalism. Even that, though, is creepy.
I have much more respect for real, sincere cannibals than these pretenders.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
