[MarMema]

The Church that prosecutes women because of their period is alien to me.

Again that's not the way I heard it. It was some elaboration of the transubstantiation thing, that if you bled you somehow lost Christ by bleeding. It held the same if you had recently had oral surgery, for instance.

We briefly attended the local ROCOR church and the priest had come from Etna and he handed out one of their booklets, which explained it like this.

There was something about men too.

It's ridiculous because if you take it far enough, well, never mind. Just suffice to say there was some belief that one could lose the Body and Blood of Christ in a body fluid. Etna is bizarre, if you ask me. But it was not just about women, as I was told this stuff.

[kosta50]

I don't even know what Etna is. I really don't care. It's superstition, and it does not reflect knowledge of human nature, but sheer ignorance. Again, this also has to do with a corrupt way of looking at Real Presence, where human interpretation degrades a Mystery, especially when superstition gets in the way.

People like this give the Church the reputation of being in the "dark ages." The Orthodox Church I know welcomes science -- because science reveals ever more God's glory.