If it were only repeating Scriptural truths, it would be Scripture. But it isn't Scripture, is it?
Are you and I also physically in the bread? That's what the words say.
In the same way Acts 7:54 says the Sanhedrin was biting Stephen.
You got the order wrong. Not hard to do when crossing language barriers. We all physically become one by partaking of the same bread. Be that as it may, I'm not going to argue the nuances of simile versus metaphor with you, which is what you're trying to hang your rhetorical hat on.
We do not literally drink the blood of Christ. That is left-over paganism.
I'd hardly call in "left-over" when Christ gives it, what, fifteen verses, teaching exactly that.
The writer of Hebrews describes those who vainly offer continual sacrifices to God for a debt that has already been paid....And this offering is what we are to remember.... The mass is a perpetual sacrifice to God, offered by a man who blasphemously presumes himself to be "another Christ."
This is the problem with Catholic-bashers, they're like little kids playing Army. They continually invent reasons why their pretend shots score hits, and the other side's shots miss. As long as there is no arbiter, the only ones they have to convince is themselves.
Of course the Lord said it best:
We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a demon. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! But wisdom is justified of all her children.
I think in the present case if the Anti-Catholic wisdom were so great it wouldn't have twenty or thirty thousand "children" to explain.
So it's "Catholic-bashing" to refer to a priest as "another Christ" when they call themselves by that name?
Christ tells us to remember Him when we drink the wine and eat the bread of the Lord's Supper. No alchemy involved. It is spiritual, not physical. We are reborn by the Spirit, not by materialistic odds and ends of this world.
That's pagan worship of the creation, and not true worship of the Creator.
"Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?" (Isaiah 44:19).
God forbid.