Only 26% of Irish Catholics believe in transubstantiation

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Churches also make good gig venues.

Oh indeed, many small country churches have been turned into rather pleasant private homes. Here ,my favourite is St Paul's, a stately Anglican pile which has become a louche nightclub.


http://www.residentadvisor.net/club-detail.aspx?id=1023



PS here, "Heaven" is the of the most notorious club in the city.

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Except that transubstantiation is a core tenet of Catholicism, so it isn't.

. Transubstantiation was the theological base used by Luther to in the Reformation. However, it has always be arguable what percentage of Catholics have grasped or believed the concept.


Transubstantiation is the core of the mass, the most important RITUAL in Catholicism.


THE test of Catholicism is the Nicene Creed. Dawkins was using the no true Scotsman fallacy.




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The Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.

Who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.

And I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.