(August 3, 2023 at 9:58 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The idea comes from the fact that blakes christianity would have been deemed heretical in his own time. That mainline churches today aren't far off from his beliefs is down to the creeping post-christian character of contemporary mainline denominations.
Just twenty years after Yeshua was executed Paul turned his flavor of reform Judaism into a blood cult. The idea of drinking blood, even "symbolically" would have creeped Yeshua and Peter and James the fuck out. Now the Catholic Church says it's not even symbolic.