(March 17, 2018 at 12:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 17, 2018 at 12:05 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote: I don't doubt you do believe it. I'm just mystified that people can read a pretty obvious metaphor and mistake it for something else.
We concede that it isn't a concept we have the mental capacity to understand, in the same way an ant doesnt have the brain to understand math. That's why we call it a mystery, as you said. The communion host still looks, tastes, and smells like bread, and is processed in our bodies like bread. But we belive that in some way that we can't grasp, God is present there.
(March 17, 2018 at 12:15 pm)The Industrial Atheist Wrote: I'm not sure what the point is in getting humans used to eating other humans. It shouldn't become necessary for humans to eat other humans in order to survive.(at least on a large scale) I don't really see anything morally wrong with eating other humans (but not murdering them) when you are starving. There's no consciousness there. It's just a carcass. I'm sure I would refuse or gag though.
Part of me wonders if he was slightly trolling to get a rise out of people. I find it hard to believe he genuinely feels as though eating dead people shouldn't be taboo, especially considering it can be dangerous/unhealthy.
IDK how growing meat in test tubes works, but if metabolism comes into play I also doubt human meat would be the most efficient way to go. It seems like we have to eat quite a bit and aren't all that muscular to produce the largest amounts of meat.
I would say if you thoroughly cooked human meat you greatly reduce the risk of disease. But I have no desire to rely on any sort of human meat for food. I think when people have been shunned for eating human meat when absolutely necessary to survive and without murder, that's unfair.
Yeah maybe he's trolling a little, though.
