(May 13, 2015 at 7:19 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Ah...this is an easy one. When the bread and wine are consecrated, the substance changes and becomes the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus. Hence the term transubstantiation. However, the accidents (the look, feel, taste, etc) of bread and wine remain. Thus, at mass Catholics receive the body and blood of Jesus in species that still look and taste like bread and wine.
So the substance changes but its appearance and taste, and everything that identifies it as that substance, stays the same. Gotcha. The fact that a substance changes (but doesn't change anything by which we would describe it) by saying some words over it doesn't trip any cognitive dissonance for you at all? You realize how patently ridiculous this assertion is, right?
(May 13, 2015 at 7:19 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: With me so far?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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