(May 11, 2015 at 5:19 pm)robvalue Wrote: It's so weird that something so weird can be seen as normal by so many.
If I look up to someone and respect them, I don't also feel the need to pretend I'm eating bits of them.
If you really respected someone, you would be eating bits of him, like normal people do! If I get just a little bit more respect for you, I will be buying a plane ticket to come and visit you to chop off a bit to eat. (For those wanting to eat bits of me, let me know, and I can send you some toenail clippings and a couple of hairs. If you are really nice, I might be able to manage a bit of dead skin.)
For a bit about the "miracle" of the opening post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Lanciano
For the "normal" doctrine of transubstantiation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation
That God magically changed the observable properties for the doubting monk on one occasion does not contradict the claim that the real "substance" is always changed during the Eucharist ceremony (when properly performed, not when done by the heretics professing false religions
).As for anyone using the claimed miracle of Lanciano as a proof of anything, there have been so many years gone by, that it would be easy for someone to have substituted bits of a human body and blood, many times over. That anyone believes anything based on this story shows the extreme imbecility of humans.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
