Actually that is exactly true. The Catholic Church takes the words of Christ literally. The Eucharist is His body and blood and we gnaw it. He used the word gnaw. When many of His followers couldn’t stomach that teaching, they left, and He let them go— because He meant exactly that.
Again, there are imperfect people in every church, Clemenza, but the dogma of the Catholic Church follows Christ’s words to the letter. And that’s no laughing matter.
Didn’t mean to be a wiseguy. Its just that the RCC (which I was a member of until I was in my mid-20s) has over the centuries incorporated the pre-Christian traditions of those it has converted, and adulterated the ecclesiastical bodies well beyond what is specified in the scripture (which is the ONLY source we have for information on the early Christian community).