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Originally Posted by RyZ
You don't actually believe that, do you? The bread and wine are a symbol and 100% of Catholics know very well that it is not the 2000 year old blood and freeze dried flesh of a guy that has been dead (and in your world, being eaten) for 2000 years.
I get the religion bashing (I am a lapsed Catholic myself), but this is stupid.
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As a kid attending mass every Sunday, I also thought it was merely symbolic. I only learned as an adult, many years after I lost the faith and left the Church, that
Catholics genuinely do believe that the bread and wine is literally transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ.
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Transubstantiation (in Latin, transsubstantiatio, in Greek μετουσίωσις metousiosis) is the change whereby, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, the bread and the wine used in the sacrament of the Eucharist become, not merely as by a sign or a figure, but also in actual reality the body and blood of Christ. The Catholic Church teaches that the substance or reality of the bread is changed into that of the body of Christ and the substance of the wine into that of his blood, while all that is accessible to the senses (the outward appearances - species in Latin) remains unchanged.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation