# Communion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communion/345502>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 21, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communion/345502 "2006-02-21T18:15:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communion/345502/81 "2006-02-27T19:22:50Z")

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To expand on what others have said, **straykat** , I don’t see how the Resurrection of christ could fail to be the point, since that’s what the Eucharist **is** : the remembering, re-enacting, and sharing of Christ’s death and resurrection.

Perhaps your friend (and perhaps Brian himself) misunderstood the meaning of the Eucharist. I don’t fault anyone for that–especially as a non-Christian, the young man had no reason to know what the Eucharist means, and it was not the right time for the bishop to disabuse him of whatever ideas about it he had.

As someone who **does** know much of what the Eucharist is, I find it…_odd_ that it would be used by a non-believer as a way of honoring a believer. But I know that even among devout Christians, many people misunderstand the Eucharist, and that your friend’s intentions were pure.

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**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communion/345502/82 "2006-02-27T19:24:36Z")

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I see that I was careful to capitalize Resurrection (and Eucharist), but failed completely to capitalize Christ. :smack:

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