cannibalism and you (christianity)

[dyresand]

Not quite.  You are not a cannibal (at least not from the traditional Eucharist; what you do at other times I cannot say).  But it is not merely "empty rhetoric" to call you a cannibal.  You would be a cannibal if your doctrine of Transubstantiation were true.  You believe yourself to be a cannibal.  Though, of course, you may not accept that term, as many people say all sorts of things and then insist that the terms that accurately apply to them, do not apply to them.  Oftentimes, people misuse words.

If the doctrine of transubstantiation were true, then Catholics would be cannibals.

That does not follow.

Not only is it silly to call us cannibals based on what you believe to be true about the Eucharist, it is silly to call us cannibals based on what WE believe about the Eucharist, as well.



Why not simply admit that in their eagerness to make Christians look foolish, sometimes ignorant atheists say things that have the opposite effect?

Well let's see
John 6:55 - For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drin

So every Sunday i am guessing you go and near the end you get the little bit of cracker and water and you 
are a metaphorically cannibal eating and drinking his blood and such. so yeah you are a cannibal a metaphorical cannibal.
Good thing the the bible didn't say drink of the seed of man