(June 26, 2015 at 9:31 am)Brian37 Wrote:(June 26, 2015 at 1:38 am)Neimenovic Wrote: Catholics eat people every Sunday and nobody bats an eye
Yep, this former Catholic always hated the taste of those wafers, always wanted to dip them in nacho cheese or peanut butter. But that motif of symbolic cannibalism stems from animal sacrifice of prior polytheism.
You were a bad Catholic if you believed it was just symbolic. The official doctrine of the Catholic Church is that it LITERALLY becomes the flesh of Jesus through the magic of transubstantiation:
https://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.
