The gluten-free Pasta that you eat, and the vegan non-GMO Sauce with which it slithers down, are gifts from Him. Not fake or imitation gifts like a soul, but true gifts like lunch. That is why it is said that when you eat of them, you are experiencing His Real Presents. If you need proof, I’m sure all this can be substantiated. And that substantiation would reach you by being transported across the Internet, so it’s not just any substantiation - it’s transubstantiation.
Also, yes, you might start laughing, trip on a colander, and fall headfirst into a pot of boiling water. So, be careful - use your Noodle.
If the Italian restaurant delivery guy has to use the subway to reach you, is that trainsubstantiation?
No. He would, in such a situation, use a pot to carry the food. So it’s trains-potting.
Talk about pointing out the obvious. :dubious:
The FSM is a SHE (duh). All depictions show meatballs, yes; and meatballs can be interpreted as representing testicles. But they can also represent ovaries. And you never see a depiction with, say, an Italian sausage.
Q.E.D., I’d say.
No, it doesn’t. In, fact, universalism is a core value of Islam. You can belong to any culture or ethnicity and be a Muslim.
There’s no “secular Muslim” precisely because Islam isn’t tied to any particular ethnic or cultural group. You can be a (cultural) Jew without believing in Judaism. But you can’t be a Muslim and not a Muslim at the same time, because Islam is solely a religion. If you become “secular”, you stop being “Muslim” (same as Christianism).
Of course, traditional religion and traditional culture are intertwined. Everywhere. They’re intertwined in Senegal and they’re intertwined in Indonesia. But a Wolof Muslim doesn’t have the same culture at all as an Indonesian Muslim. There’s no independant “Muslim culture”. You can be a secular Wolof or a secular Indonesian (culture), but you can’t be a secular Muslim (religion).