RE: Christians: What line are you unwilling to cross for God?
August 23, 2018 at 1:09 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2018 at 1:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The RCC maintains that jesus was fully human. As per the quoted segment already included, it's about his body and his blood and how the cracker and grape juice are transformed into their substance.
OFC it's metaphor, in reality, just as many other examples of ritual cannibalism are metaphor. The trouble is that the RCC maintains that it's not a metaphor..that it's magic, and that it's real. Mysteriously. Catholics might be offended at the notion that their priests are shamans on a stage in dresses shaking rattles, pretending to cast spells..but that's what they are, and they (the clergy and authority) make no bones about it.
OFC it's metaphor, in reality, just as many other examples of ritual cannibalism are metaphor. The trouble is that the RCC maintains that it's not a metaphor..that it's magic, and that it's real. Mysteriously. Catholics might be offended at the notion that their priests are shamans on a stage in dresses shaking rattles, pretending to cast spells..but that's what they are, and they (the clergy and authority) make no bones about it.
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