Rapid Response 47 is another Trump white alt spewing racist shit
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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I mean really the Catholics with the simulated blood guzzling and flesh eating rituals should just STFU.
I'm here to point out that they believe it's not simulated. Catholics specifically believe that it is literally transformed into flesh and blood.
When the Romans persecuted Christians, cannibalism was one of the accusations levied against them, because taking it seriously leads pretty naturally to that conclusion.
It’s called transubstantiation, and it has been scientifically proven to be real. We have already sequenced Christ’s DNA, and China is supposedly secretly trying to clone him as we speak. This decade is just going to keep getting weirder.
Can't, uh, can't tell if this is sarcastic
You really can't? Come on now
I will say that "We did science on the cracker and proved it is Jesus" feels far more Protestant than Catholic.
Catholics would be reading you 16th century poetry and laying out a convoluted metaphor, then rolling their eyes and sighing before insisting "Its a Sacred Mystery, I am legally obligated to say I believe it is real". We're all writing letters to the Pope to politely ask that we can drop this kayfabe shit in Vatican III. But until then, Transubstantiation is real please stop asking further questions.
Protestants have always been flirting with secularization. That's sort of their brand. They take a scope of rationalist scientific inquiry and mix it in with a scope of Christian mysticism, then try to logic their way to Salvation by doing math on scripture. Incidentally, not unlike how a lot of Kabbalist Jews try to force the Talmud through a Renaissance Era series of tubes.
Sometimes you can pop out the back side more zanny than the Catholicism you started with (doggedly insisting in 6000 year old Earth based on doing Biblical genealogy). Sometimes you come out as Prosperity Gospel types who have wrapped the pastiche of Christianity around the machinery of capitalist market enterprise. Sometimes you do Liberation Theology and turn into a far-left socialist radical. But for a lot of Protestants, its just an exercise in Cafeteria Catholicism. Take the bits you like, discard the bits you don't, and rewrite the old scriptures in your own modern image.
It's grape juice and crackers, calm down.
The Catholics genuinely believe it's the body and blood of Christ after the priest does his ritual. I went to a Catholic school and can confirm this.
The Catholics generally accept that Transubstantiation is a thing they're supposed to believe in.
If you hold up a cracker to an actual practicing Catholic and you demand to see proof that the bread is now human flesh, they'll just shrug at you and say "You don't get it, man". It's Woo-Woo. We all know it's Woo-Woo. The fact that the Papacy refused to acknowledge a ritualized metaphor for what it is doesn't obligate the rest of the congregation to be more than flippantly obtuse.
Lol you are institutionalizing the hypocrisy
I'm not sure you understand what either of those words mean.
Go have a cracker and Welch's grape and ruminate on it. Or, genuflect if you prefer.
I'm being told by Lemmy that this makes me a cannibal
Especially many american catholics (even priests) just outright defying the pope. THE POPE, BISHOP OF ROME, IS LITTERLY YOUR MAIN GUY SECOND TO GOD ACCORDING TO YOUR DOCTRINE. Ugh these kind of religiouse people are the worst, no matter which religion
To be fair infighting is a long standing Catholic tradition.