SolidGrue@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoIs the body of Christ gluten free? Asking for a friend.message-squaremessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up191arrow-down1message-squareIs the body of Christ gluten free? Asking for a friend.SolidGrue@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareOrbituary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoYou drink his blood and eat his body… Vampirism and cannibalism. Way to go catholics. (thanks Eddie)
minus-squareBashnagdul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoIt’s only cannibalism if you are also a god. Otherwise its deitism?
minus-squareTheRealKuni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months ago It’s only cannibalism if you are also a god. Otherwise its deitism? Ah, but the Athanasian creed clearly teaches the doctrine of hypostatic union, that Jesus is fully god but also fully man. Since he is fully man, eating his body would indeed be cannibalism. Don’t take away the most metal part of Christianity.
minus-squareBashnagdul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoI think eating your god is more metal than just eating a human.
minus-squaremeco03211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoThere’s an Abbot and Costello skit in there somewhere. “You’re on a new diet?” “No I said deit.”
You drink his blood and eat his body… Vampirism and cannibalism. Way to go catholics.
(thanks Eddie)
It’s only cannibalism if you are also a god. Otherwise its deitism?
Ah, but the Athanasian creed clearly teaches the doctrine of hypostatic union, that Jesus is fully god but also fully man.
Since he is fully man, eating his body would indeed be cannibalism. Don’t take away the most metal part of Christianity.
I think eating your god is more metal than just eating a human.
There’s an Abbot and Costello skit in there somewhere. “You’re on a new diet?” “No I said deit.”