[RoadTest]

"I am Catholic, yet I actually drink 'wine' and eat a sanctified 'host'. It's representative you know, and based on Jesus' words to his disciples at the Last Supper. The priest doesn't slit his wrist and add real blood to the wine!"

Ahem - - - It's not "representative" in Catholic Church doctrine. In fact, you are apostate if you hold such a Protestant belief!

You are required to believe that it is His blood and His flesh you are drinking and eating. That's what millions of Christians were slaughtered about in the late middle ages and Renaissance. They didn't believe it, so they were called "heretics"..

[Campion]

That's what millions of Christians were slaughtered about in the late middle ages and Renaissance.

"Millions of Christians" were not slaughtered by anyone, at any time, for any reason, in the late middle ages and Renaissance. Try reading a history not written by Jack Chick, Jimmy Swaggart, or John Foxe.

The only thing that killed millions of Christians in that timeframe was the Black Death, which didn't really discriminate much in matters of theology.

[Rummyfan]

I stand corrected. It's been a long time since I've been to Mass.

[Flavius Josephus]

OK, I admit there is a bit of a mental gymnastic flip required for me to believe I'm eating His Most Precious Body And Drinking His Blood. But it's not that hard. It comes down to "God said it, I believe it, that settles it." And he DID say it. "If you do not eat my body and drink my blood, you shall have no life in you." John 6:53

[showme_the_Glory]

It's representative you know.......the wine becomes the blood you know....

[Antoninus]

That's what millions of Christians were slaughtered about in the late middle ages and Renaissance. They didn't believe it, so they were called "heretics".

Millions were not slaughtered. I dare you to cite one source that agrees with that number.