I attended a Catholic school for 9 years of my life. I am 17 now, having recently convinced my parents to let me escape to public school after 8th grade. I hated every moment of my life there, because everyone seemed so ...phony... (to quote Holden Caulfield http://www.totse.com/bbs/smile.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/smile.gif)) but anyway, the main reason why I couldn't stand it there was because they treated me terribly because I had questions about certain things. I am a very inquisitive person, and it pissed them off because they DIDN'T HAVE AN ANSWER! and that pissed me off as well. Maybe somebody can help answer these questions for me that I have always wondered.

Catholics truly believe that during communion we are eating the body of Jesus Christ. How does that not fall in the lines of cannibalism?

If these damn fundamentalists can sit around and believe every last word of the bible, how do they explain where the dinosaurs were introduced in their little "Adam and Eve" tale?

Enlighten me? Flame me? I just want a decent answer.

quote:Originally posted by Ackronymph:

Catholics truly believe that during communion we are eating the body of Jesus Christ. How does that not fall in the lines of cannibalism?

Is cannibalism actualy bad or just killing people? Because the Jahovas's Wittnesses think a blood transfusion is cannibalism (it pretty much is, you can eat interveinously).

Every religion is like that. If you get enough people of the same religion together, their skulls will get so thick that anything short of a bullet won't be able to pierce them. I'm Catholic, and no we aren't actually eating the flesh of Christ or drinking His blood. Just wine and stale wafers. It just suppose to represent the Last Supper were Jesus said the wine they drank would be His blood and the bread they ate would be His flesh.

I'm not sure why any Catholic would really say we are eating the flesh of Jesus. Either their parents played a cruel joke on them and raised them to believe that bread is a living thing called Jesus or they are just retarded.

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Are you familiar with the doctrine of transubstantiation?

It basically says that 2+2=2. Catholics believe that the bread and wine turn entirely into flesh and blood.

Lutherans and many mainstream protestants believe in consubstantiation(2+2=4). When you eat the bread and wine, it becomes flesh and blood while still remaining bread and wine.

Calvinism and it's various offshoots believe that the eucharist is just commemoration, or that the bread and wine is just bread and wine. There is no miracle happening in the ceremony.

So if it really does become flesh and blood it shouldn't be too hard to prove that. A relativley scientific study would show whether or not the wafer and wine becomes flesh and blood at any time your drinking, eating or digesting it.

It's religion and faith and miracles? If science could prove it, then it already would have.

Who even gives a shit if it can be scientifically proven anyways?