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Christ isn't a demigod in Christianity; He's God incarnate, fully God and fully Human. So we eat God directly. I can't explain how with any precision as I'm not a trained and experienced theologian with the credentials to make the "how" statements, but we do eat God.
Some Christians don’t believe that Jesus is God so they wouldn’t be eating God. Also I think eating Jesus is mostly a catholic thing
Anyone who doesn't believe that Jesus is entirely God isn't a Christian. That's not gatekeeping, its like saying someone can reject the prophet Muhammad and still be a Muslim. It just wouldn't be true.
I'm an Orthodox Christian, and we definitely eat God every Sunday. The Lutherans also believe they eat God but they define it more like we do than the Roman Catholics do. The Anglicans usually agree with the Catholics on how they eat God. Beyond just the groups named, I'm fairly certain no one else truly eats God's flesh.
Prepare to be inquisitioned for heresy. Not for insulting Christianity, but for calling Jesus a demigod.
Isn't he both god and man, supposedly? Is that not the definition of a demigod?
A demigod is (roughly) 50% man 50% god. Jesus is supposed to be 100% man and 100% god. That's less of a demigod and more of a contradiction.
It's not a contradiction, it just depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.
See also: trinitarianism.
(/s)
Found Bill Clinton's Lemmy acct.
if i was an omnipotent god, i would try to break logic at least once too
Even if Jesus is 100% man and 100% god simultaneously cause reasons, that still means his composition is 50% god and 50% man, which still fits the Demi god definition.
That's not a contradiction if they aren't related. Is god a species? I don't think so. It's like saying a cat is 100% cat and 100% cute. They're different things. He's not a human-god hybrid. He's a god who also happens to be human (at that time).
(Before people go assuming I'm arguing on the validity of all this, it's stupid. I'm an atheist. The whole thing doesn't really make sense. I'm just correcting a logical mistake.)
Did someone say... heresy?
not a "demi", literally God btw
OTOH it's not literally consuming blood and flesh, it's more like doing it in a D&D game, but with the self-delusion that it's real.
Transubstantiation makes it literal. Catholic and a couple other demoninations believe they are magically transforming the wine and bread into actual blood and flesh. I mean, that's what it teaches anyway; whether most people participating believe that is a different story.
Well no, for Catholics it literally is. They've killed a ton of people of the years over this issue.
My mom forced me into catechesis, uh, they have this cookie they believe that symbolizes God's body. Once the teacher mentioned it and a girl didn't know what was it. When I replied "It's a cookie", the woman got angry at me and began saying calling it a cookie was "disrespectful".
Calling that dollar store rice paper fiasco a "cookie" is an insult to every actual cookie I've ever haf
There isn't even rice, it's literally just water and flour.
I mean, Henry VIII spun off the Anglican church so he could properly call it a biscuit.
*pretend to consume it while eating some rice paper circles and drinking a tiny sip of wine...
No, Catholics really believe that those crackers and wine are physically transformed into the flesh and blood of christ. Other christians treat it as symbolic, but catholics are very literal about it.
*pretend to believe
Nothing in catholicism can be taken at face value. Growing up Catholic, you learn obfuscation, and to work through abstractions of ideas rather than literal ones. Anyone considering the literal words in the bible was considered some kind of idiot zealot barbarian. Frankly we looked down on the rest of the christians who were limited to what was written on the paper. Only the priests could translate the text into what we actually truly believed, and thats what they were good for-- telling us what was meant rather than what was actually written.
Its a system that worked out great when the priests had charisma and could sell it, but when they lacked that personal touch it all fell apart pretty quickly. Being a catholic priest looks hard.
Which means they are openly participating in ritual cannibalism, but Atheists are the weirdos?
Seriously, we should start referring to Catholics as Cannibalists.
They don't teach that it's literally physically flesh and literally physically blood, it's still wine and a bread cracker thing, it's just that they also now have the spiritual essence and properties of the J-man's divinity. Like, most catholics would be confused that anyone would draw a comparison to say cannibalism, because it's not literal in the physical sense, just the spiritual. Which admittedly probably doesn't make much sense unless you're catholic.
Source: raised in catholic town by catholic family with twelve years of catholic school in which I actually read the bible and the catechism, all of which explain why I'm an atheist. But it's funny seeing all the (admittedly understandable) misconceptions people have about what catholics believe.
Religion is a straight up mental illness and by far the greatest threat facing humanity.
Yep,
But it still has a stranglehold on the world
There's no excuse for a developed country to be swayed by superstitious claptrap, but 'Murica isn't really a developed country, culturally speaking
I was just thinking about the term "Jeez-Its" this week in the grocery store and giggling like an idiot.
"So how many of those [do] you have to consume before you’ve eaten a whole Jesus?"
Get in line in that processional
Step into that small confessional
There the guy who's got religion'll
Tell you if your sin's original.
If it is, try playin' it safer
Drink the wine and chew the wafer
Two, four, six, eight
Time to transubstantiate
got 'em!