# explain a miracle - religious debate

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**Created:** [January 7, 2013, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-a-miracle-religious-debate/646335 "2013-01-07T10:51:52Z")\
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> [@TonySinclair](#):
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> And if you’re a Catholic, you believe it’s brimming with nutritious protein, since it magically turns into the body of Christ.

It’s true that we Catholics believe it magically turns into the Body of Christ.

But we don’t believe as a result that it’s physically nutritious, because we believe that the magical change happens only to the _substance_ of the bread, not the _species_, or physical appearance and content, of the bread.

We believe that the Body of Christ is very nutritious for one’s soul, but not for one’s physical body.

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