You posted: If you take the Real Presence out of the Eucharist, you are left with an empty and vain ritual... something I thought Protestants detested.
If you take the real presence of Christ out of the your daily, moment by moment experience of Christianity, and confine it to the Eucharist you are left with an empty and vain life...something I hope Catholics would detest.
That isn't the faith we Catholics profess. You simply set up a straw man to knock down.