I'll get jumped for saying this, but I don't think He would care if they substituted a bowl of Crunch Berries if the intent was the same.
Isn't this a case of mistaking the map for the territory?
I think you're absolutely right. I can't imagine god really caring about anything beyond the child's intent.
This is why I'm having a hard time taking the Catholic Church seriously. Leaving Saddam in power is OK, but creating a special wafer so a young girl doesn't get sick from her Communion isn't?
You say this because your faith is founded on sentimentalism: an identity of what’s true with what’s emotionally congenial. To suggest that “good intentions” are enough to validate communion is an invitation to an endless voyage of self-deception and eventually self-worship. Fundamental to the idea of communion is that we’re all doing the same thing – not our own thing. The sentimentality of private good intentions isn’t much of an answer to Christ who founded a Church and endowed her with authority. It’s an act of radical individualism, a declaration that there’s no truth mysteriously hidden but unfolding in the sacraments.
Not to get personal, but if you’re really a repairman, you probably have little or no serious training in theology. I don’t know what it is you repair for a living, but would you trust an untrained priest’s advice on how to do your job?