(August 29, 2015 at 3:29 pm)IATIA Wrote:(August 29, 2015 at 3:23 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: If the "crazy shit" we believe isn't true, then we're just eating bread and drinking wine...despite what we believe.
How does that make us cannibals? At best, it just makes us crazy...
It is all about intent.
And if you have kids, you will tell them that they are eating blood and flesh.
He intends to be a cannibal, but he is not one (at least not from the traditional Eucharist ceremony; what he does at other times, I cannot say).
This is a bit like the difference between attempted murder and actual murder. Merely attempting murder does not make one a murderer, just like attempting to fly does not make one a flier.
But his intent does tell us about his morality, and morally, it is the same whether he succeeds or not.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
