re: #170 Salamantis

If you wanna make fun of a religion, please refrain from picking on mine, when you obviously don’t know jack shit about it.

The Great Rite, that initiates an acolyte into Priesthood or Priestesshood, is indeed symbolic intercourse (represented by an athame (knife) being dipped into a wine-filled chalice). In contrast, eating the wine and wafer - that is, the consumption of the body and blood of Christ (which, according to the doctrine of transubstantiation are not virtual, but actual) - is ritual cannibalism, no less than scarfing up the simmered carcass of Valentine Michael Smith was in Robert A. Heinlein’s novel Stranger in a Strange Land (and he consciously patterned that scene after the Receiving of the sacrement).

I wasn’t sure whether to be offended or laugh, so I laughed. I was raised a Catholic and you’re right about the transubstantiation thing. It always tasted like bread and wine to me (oops!).

What is more offensive or ridiculous; to symbolically fuck your God, or to symbolically eat Him?