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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The cannibalistic symbolism in Christianity has always been incredibly bizarre to me. It's even more bizarre that Christians don't seem to think anything of it.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because Christians are world champions at taking the most bizarre desert apocalyptic cult ravings and "interpret" them into something which fits nicely with what they prefer to believe instead.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The central idea is that human sacrifice is effective and symbolic cannibalism is a sacred thing… but LGBTQ people existing is a crime against nature.

    It makes sense if you just never think about it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Vampires always quoting this bible versus. It gets annoying. Like we get it you are just following Jesus.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Watch out, you're straying close to heresy.

    In relation to the process of digestion, the Catholic Church's teaching has been expressed in this way: "The substance of Christ's body is not subject to processes of digestion or to any chemical reactions. The qualities of bread of course behave in their normal way, undergoing a change as they are affected by digestion. Our Lord's substantial presence ceases as these qualities cease to retain those characteristics proper to bread."

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I was kind of hoping they'd have an official stance that calories from Jesus bread don't count.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "The Sacrament of the Eucharist is the body and blood of Christ really present under the appearances of bread and wine; if the appearances cease to be present, then the sacrament no longer exists, and so the Real Presence ceases."

    "The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ."

    Hold on, I figured out a trick for infinite communion wine. Just water it down but occasionally add some Red 40 so it still looks the same. It's theologically sound!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Richard Chase:

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You can have life in you by just eating a live bug. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wasn't there an Evangelion episode like this?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    hannible happy noises gif

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Most cannibals: eat human flesh but claims they don't

    Most catholics: do not eat human flesh but claims they do

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    its just a mistranslation of

    "if you aren't blowing the homies goodnight, are you even living?"

    he encourages oral sex obviously! the church scholars are such incompetent noobs

    edit: life is obviously cum.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Wait, we are SUPPOSED to eat a zombie?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Initially thought that bottom panel was a crab.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    Inspiration of this meme:

    I just got reminded of that cutscene in a first person shooter named Blood, and at the same time, there was a silly video whose absurd image popped in my mind

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

    Real talk: Either this is some pagan ritual shit added later on by the Romans (like the polytheistic [Trinitarian] nature of Christianity and everything Paul said) or it was never meant to be taken even remotely literally. I'm going with the first one.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, this ONE crazy nonsense must have been added later, unlike all the other bullshit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Sounds like transubstantiation to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I know what it is, I'm questioning the origins since Jesus spoke sense and truth and was not of the superficial, ritualistic people (nobody intelligent is). It's basically a blood rite, lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

    We cannot, with any authority, assert what jesus did or did not say if we assume catholic tradition is not reliable.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I'd go further even and go full "all I know is I know nothing" like Socrates, but we can be practical and discerning: if you've ever met a wise person, you can imagine how a really wise, anti imperialistic, revolutionary religious leader who preached righteousness and wasn't in it for the money would act. 🤷

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    So youre just projecting... you want jesus to be a wise, anti imperialistic revolutionary who wasn't in it for the money, and so you assume he was... despite there being insufficient evidence to come to that conclusion... if you reject the catholic orthodoxy as true.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    If he's the man who preached the Sermon of the Mount and had enough followers through his words and actions the freaking Roman Empire had to co-opt his ideology (mostly in name only, and not without corrupting it entirely, ofc), I feel like I have enough reasons to see Jesus that way.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sure, but where's the evidence thst jesus ever preached the sermon on the mount, or that the Roman empire adopted his philosophy....

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Who was it, then?! Regardless, whoever that person was preached things in that category, because those words stand by themselves and have that character by themselves, it just happened to have come from Jesus at that time (and others throughout history, ofc). If you disagree with the Sermon on the Mount, that's a different story, but I'm not making an argument of authority here.

    Also, what? What do you think the "Roman Catholic Church" means? Or the Vatican being in Rome? Constantine the Great?! This is just basic history. 😅

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You're the one that rejects Paul, ie, the earliest Christian writings that exist.

    Clearly you want to pick and choose scripture.

    I fail to see anything amazing in the sermon on the mount to be honest...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Paul, the "faith without works", "just believe Jesus = God and you'll be saved" guy? That's your point of reference? Even in its nonsense, Paul without Jesus is nothing, but here you are saying "how do you know Jesus was that guy?" And the Sermon on the Mount is basically the ideological basis and the soul of everything good in Christianity! And you gotta pick and choose, because of corruption and obvious nonsense. What makes sense stands by itself, what doesn't doesn't, and when we meet God (I assume you believe in that at least...) we'll explain ourselves. Also, much of scripture is just letters from one group or dude to another, like by their own admission not "the word of God". It can make sense, it cannot, what was kept in the Bible can be gold and it can also be shit.

    You're very confused, both about the world and in your internal belief system, it's completely incoherent, but to you your system and to me mine, I guess. 🤷

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Of course I don't believe in your god.

    Its a nonsense creature that you can't even justify.

    I wish you could see that.

    Your faithis nonsense, and the sooner you can break free from the lies the better off you'll be.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Tbh, I assumed figuratively. Doesn't Jesus use figure of speech?

    And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for the wealthy to enter into the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 19:24

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