(December 2, 2017 at 1:36 am)ignoramus Wrote: You're overthinking it V.
Is it cannibalism if you eat yourself?
Is it partial cannibalism if you eat your boogers? eeewww
If you continuously eat your own skat, is it nested cannibalism all the way down?
The entire motif really is nothing more than a competition of prior polytheism animal sacrifice. I'd bet that because many people were getting sick from bacteria from bathing in animal blood or drinking unfiltered animal blood, this was an attempt to get away from that.
But back then, the bible was taken very literally so yea, back then, they did believe they were eating the body of Jesus. Just like they literally believed in magic babies with super powers.
But just like other religions, when called out on it, it gets relegated to "symbolic" or "metaphor".
