[GeronL]

Cannibalism is important to Catholics apparently. There is so much symbolism and pomp in the church but if others think eating and drinking Jesus is symbolic, they are heretics.

Anyone who really thinks crackers from Ye Old Cracker Co and wine from a box is actually the flesh and blood of Jesus are probably nuts.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Lol, GeronL, you should be in my RCIA class. You'd learn that Communion is not cannibalism, because cannibalism means eating parts of a dead human person's body and is abhorred by God (this, inter alia, is what gave the Canaanites a bad name); whereas Communion means eating:

• nor parts, but the whole of a Person
• not just "body," but Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity
• it's not a human person, it's a Divine Person who has a human nature; and
• this is not abhorred by God, it is commanded and required by God.

And so you see Holy Communion is not cannibalism: not even analogous, not even close. It differs from cannibalism in every respect.

Plus, the only humanly decent response to Jesus when He says, "Take and eat, this is My Body," is not "You must be nus."

It's "Amen."

[achilles2000]

I’m not Catholic, but I think you could be far more charitable. Yes, transubstantiation is wrong, but the source is the influence of Aristotle on the church. It is an interesting philosophical move, but it is heretical. Nevertheless, I’ve found that most Protestants are exactly like the Catholics she describes. They are pagans with a cultural Christian veneer. Transubstantiation isn’t the important issue.

[johngrace]

No body part is cut off a body. You woefully just do not understand. If anything no body is physically cutoff of any body part.

Peace In Christ