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I hear you.. Why cant we just get along?..

If you think I'm pulling a Rodney King then I'm afraid you actually do not hear me.

What I said could be rephrased, "If he knew what we really teach about the Eucharist he might not be so very against it, certainly not in the same manner and with the same arguments as those being brought forward now."

I do think that there is very great good in working together to delineate precisely our differences and I think the normal atmosphere of debate and gotcha is strictly speaking vicious and also useless. This is not like a criminal matter in the respect that I don't think an adversarial approach will bring the truth to light, even the sort of second level truths that I'm talking about.

For one thing, an adversarial approach encourages NOT understanding what one's adversaries are saying but only looking for ways to twist it. I can't see any good coming out of that at all.

[ "If he knew what we really teach about the Eucharist he might not be so very against it, certainly not in the same manner and with the same arguments as those being brought forward now." ]

I already know what transubstantiation is.. and is not..
Assuming I do not know is, well, assumptive..

It is a best weird and at worse cultish... to be nice..
Transubstantiation is only one of hundreds of questionable(to me) practices of the RCC and others.. The protestants are not without felony either, according to me.. But I tolerate some of it because its at heart a lack in human nature generally.. As is many pagan practices..

Of course you might disagree, but you are probably wrong about other things as well.. Jesus didnt call us to be smart but just sheep.. Sheep are known for not being smart..