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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
Furthermore, the core of Catholicism isn't that Jesus died for our sins, the core belief that sets Catholicism apart from all other religions is the mystery of transubstantiation. Unlike other Christians whose cannibalism of Jesus is symbolic, the true beleiving Catholic literally commits ritual cannibalism, idealy every Sunday morning a couple of hours before lunch.
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Thats only between protestants and orthodox.
In the Orthodox Church we equally believe in the Actual Presence, whereas protestants of American and western European christianity believe in the symbolism of the Eucharist.
The idea is not merely cannibalism, as the Actual or Real Presence is not just to eat, but in general, so that the Body of Jesus is actually in the room, and you are actually standing before and praying to the true body and presence of God. It is very mystical experience, which makes Christianity a very metaphysical religion, which protestants have stripped from their religion and as a result, have a very deprived and even bankrupt form of Christianity which explains a lot of about Americand and protestant christian hypocrisy..
further, I myself wonder if we have the whole interpretation of human sacrifice in the Americas all wrong. I mean, think about it, if five hundred years from now some archeologists broke into an Orthodox church, full of icons of a crucified Jesus, and get access to the idea of communion, they would think perhaps, under a misunderstanding, that we ACTUALLY killed a person each sunday for our service, which technically is the belief of the Church, that Jesus Christ killed and resurrected body ACTUALLY and LITERALLY sits on the altar. So I was thinking, perhaps the human sacrifice of the Americas is not literally killing people, but something akin to Christian communion. After all, we base a good deal of our inferences on Mesoamerican religion on our own intepretations of indian iconography and motifs carved in stone.