(May 12, 2015 at 10:06 am)Pyrrho Wrote:(May 11, 2015 at 5:19 pm)robvalue Wrote: ...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!
But didn't they do that on New Guinea until fairly recently? 'Twas the brain that was eaten, after the person in question had died. It allowed you to acquire a portion of the soul or essence of the departed. Until the government banned it. Then there were the prions transmitted by the practice, a human form of mad-cow disease.
(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...
While for Protestants neither the substance nor its accidents change. Yet for both Catholics and Protestants, it is believed that Christ sanctions and blesses the act of communion. It's kind of odd, though, the staying power of the argument over this thing. The Catholic Church, said to be clinging to "primitive" beliefs, has since 1963 gotten more progressive in the global arena, for the social gospel, than certain American Evangelical Protestant churches that are becoming increasingly parochial and political.
