It's not bread once it's consecrated, Chip.
We believe it is the body of Christ. That's our belief...if it offends you, don't mock it...challenge it with maturity.
What does "consecrated" mean? How does that change it? What does it turn into after you eat it?
Religions fall into three categories:
1. The murdering violent: moslems who will employ any means to force the world to bend to their will.
2. The formerly torturing murdering violent Catholics, who tortured people who were suspected of being and, get this folks, an unbeliever! Remind you of of moslems? The catholic's snobbery and belief in their correctness and superiority relative to, any other faith and their belief that this thing called a "pope" somehow matters makes the beer come out of my nose.
3. The rest of the superstitious folks who expect that their time will come.
Sorry about the beer.
Distortions of the facts offend me as they should everybody. Read Paul's own words:
"For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come."[I Corinthians 11]
No matter how you slice it, the consecrated bread was still bread to Paul, this bread, that bread, but bread nonetheless, and they didn't carry it through the streets of Jerusalem in some ostentatious procession for the public to worship. Is that mature enough????