• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I was with them until this part:

    while in the Balkan peninsula a small bread image of the deceased is made and eaten by the survivors of the family.

    That crosses over into ‘what the fuck is wrong with you people’ territory.

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      4 days ago

      I dunno, adding gingerbread yous as a party favor to your funeral sounds absolutely fantastic. Every funeral I’ve been to would have been improved by gingerbread people of whoever died.

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        The first doesn’t give me pause because it’s pretty engrained into virtually all of Western society. The second… well that’s sort of the whole point of Catholic communion, isn’t it?

        • richieadler 🇦🇷@lemmy.myserv.one
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          The first doesn’t give me pause because it’s pretty engrained into virtually all of Western society.

          It doesn’t mean that it isn’t nonsense.

          The second… well that’s sort of the whole point of Catholic communion, isn’t it?

          Not at all. The transubstantiation is supposed to turn the wine and bread into the blood and flesh of Christ, “really and truly”, in spite of the “accidents” (i.e. the material reality of the wine and bread), and that by ingesting them they receive “the present of Christ’s sacrifice”. They don’t “eat sins”; they accept the sacrifice that supposedly delivers them from sin.

          Of course, I think that all of that is nonsense, but that’s my opinion of all religious beliefs. I only know a little bit about the Eucharist because I live in a Catholic country.