(May 5, 2015 at 6:47 pm)Jericho Wrote:(May 5, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It really is creepy. The eucharist ceremony is also creepy, where one eats the body and drinks the blood of Jesus.
Even now this scares me...
It is a very strange practice. Strange, that is, to modern ways of thinking. Cannibalism has been practiced by a wide range of peoples, with evidence of it having been practiced going back 600,000 years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism
For the modern eucharist ceremony, if you are accustomed to the mainstream protestant view, that it is symbolic cannibalism, you might be in for a surprise for the official doctrine of the Catholic church to this day, which is described as "transubstantiation," in which the wine and bread are said to LITERALLY change into the body and blood of Jesus. Devout Catholics, who believe official church doctrine, believe that they are actual cannibals (as opposed to protestants believing they are only symbolic cannibals). If you think this cannot be, read for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
