oh, they say the right words...they believe.....BUT the point they would make (I am projecting their thoughts here) is that after mass we ARE the body of Christ and who needs the bread with his presence when we ARE Him..........yep, I know....almost feels like self worship.
it is liberalism plain and simple. Liberals believe they are more intelligent, more sophisticated etc. and ABOVE the masses. i am reading about Eleanor of Aquitaine who was married to King Henry II. They may have been barbarians back then, but they were more in tune with God. Henry II was blamed for the murder of Thomas Becket and did penance by wearing a hair shirt, walking to Canterbury Cathedral in sackcloth and ashes, and offering himself up for flogging by the monks there. We are far too sophisticated for such things today and our faith is the poorer for it. Not that i advocate those things, mind you, but they are illustrative of the faith held by people back then.