(March 17, 2018 at 10:19 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 17, 2018 at 9:32 am)Tizheruk Wrote: Does or does not catholicism state that bread and wine become the literal flesh and blood of human being . Which is then consumed ?
..In the physical form of bread and wine. This in no way means we think it is ethical or healthy to eat dead people. The Church is actually against such practice unless in cases of life and death.
Um no, we are not talking about modern western interpretations.
BACK THEN it was literally SOLD as magic, BACK THEN.
But in reality it was a literary propaganda to compete with the animal sacrifice of polytheism.
Of course you don't view it that way, and I am glad you dont. But back then the motif of the magic of blood sacrifice was the social norm. All Christianity did was take that motif and change the interpretation.
It does not matter to me one bit, in discussing the motifs of polytheism or monotheism with blood sacrifice, animal or human. Humans back then mistook both animal blood and human blood as having magic powers.
