• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 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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      8 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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      8 days ago

      And the notion of sin, or of eating said sin, didn’t give you pause?

      Curious.

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        8 days ago

        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 🇦🇷
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          6 days ago

          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.

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              6 days ago

              Well, if nonsense doesn’t give you pause, I don’t have much to add.

              Bye.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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                6 days ago

                If every nonsensical thing gives you pause, you must have immense trouble getting through your daily life.

                In fact, I don’t even know how you can make it through Lemmy, let alone the rest of the internet.

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                    5 days ago

                    You’re right, because I thought it meant someone was leaving after they said it. And yet you said it and you’re still here.