It is His birthday and He can cry if He wants to. 
Not recently, anyway.
Because his thread on Mormonism fizzled out before satisfying his trolly urges? :rolleyes:
I remain hopeful, perhaps foolishly so, that while the accident of this thread is that of a drunken troll, that the substance may still be worthy of comment. Then again, there’s no way for me to prove that.
Yeah, the Catholics stopped doing that a good three hundred years ago!
(FTR, I’m a Memorialist and my wife’s a Transubstantiationist but we belong to a Consubstantiationist sect. Like Sunni and Shi’a, we get along better if the topic never comes up.)
Maybe he’s a staunch vegetarian, and once was tricked into eating “meat” in the form of a communion wafer. Distraught and filled with self loathing for his act of unwitting carnivorism, he has wandered the anonymous halls of internetland ever since, shrilly proclaiming that the Jesus cracker he ate contained, in fact, no Jesus at all.
In one of those religion class discussions George Carlin joked about on an old album (as in “If it’s midnight Saturday and you cross the International Date Line and it’s Monday so you missed Sunday altogether, do you still need to go to Mass?” which was a real question in my class) someone asked about vegetarians and the Eucharist. Sister said that God would say it was okay. Didn’t hit the kid for being a wiseass or nothin’.
OT, but while I’m sure the kid probably meant it as an honest question, I don’t think that’s a good answer from the Sister. Lest I’ve missed something, vegetarianism is not mandated by the Bible, thus violating any vegetarian laws wouldn’t be a sin. Maybe you could “justify” it is a sin by saying that person is cheating or lying or some such, but I think that’s a stretch.
Nicely done.
Now talk about scientific impossibilities!
Yes, I’m sure Gregor Mendel, Blaise Pascal, René Descartes, Galileo, and countless others would take issue with your description of Catholics being the “most Science hating people on Earth”.
If anything, Catholicism is probably the most scholarly denomination of Christianity.
Of course, those among us who are faithful in the belief of absolute religious irrationality would consider that merely damning with faint praise.
IANACOAP, but as I understand it, transubstantiation breezes through Ockam’s Razor, because it’s not making an extraordinary claim. The substance/accident claim is saying that, in every manner in which science has purview, the wafer is unchanged. Science agrees with this view. It is also saying that the fundamental nature of the wafer (again, not a function of any physical or measurable property) has been changed so that it is now the Body of Christ.
The official scientific response to claims like this is, and can only be, “Meh.” Until we put together a metaphysical-substance-ometer, we cannot, in any scientific standing, make any claims as to the truth or falsehood of such claims. Strict scientific views and Catholic dogma are actually quite compatible in this case.
You may personally find belief in transubstantiation silly. This is your right. However, unless you do have a scanning reson metaphysical-substance-oscope handy, there is no reason to accept either “This happens.” or “This doesn’t happen.” as scientific hypotheses.
Incidentally, I really want a scanning reson metaphysical-substance-oscope
In what wavelength regime, and for what distance?
Come on, man, you can’t get these things from a metaphysicist unless you give details!
It’s funny 'cause it’s true.
Enjoy,
Steven
No, they create their own reality.
*Worship of saints ain’t worship, it’s veneration. *:dubious:
I am a very devout Catholic and when I take comunion I* can taste the Jesus!*
I always thought he tasted a little bland. He should have eaten more salt and spices in his diet.
It doesn’t help that His advertising is very confusing. Does He taste like bread? Lamb? Fish? All three? :eek:
Sorry, that’s probably MSG and hydrolized soy protein. They took out most of the Jesus years ago and left in just enough to pass FDA regulations. Remember the ad campaign, “Now with MORE JESUS FLAVOR!”? That’s when they did it.
Damn bean counters. :mad:
You only taste the Jesus if you have faith.
Trust me, it’s kind of gross.