But Santa and the tooth fairy are mythical nonsense, silly child! Krampus and the Easter bunny? Don’t even get me started! Just wait until Hanukkah Zombie and Kwanzaa Bot hear about this! Oy!
In the beginning, humans were dumb as fuck. They still are, but they used to be, too.
Oh but if I went ‘round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away.
… symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood…
Unless you are Lutheran. In which case they believe Jesus has “real presence” during communion.
Jesus said it, so it must literally be true, “is means is”.
Also Roman Catholic. I was raised that it wasn’t symbolic, but actually transformed into his real flesh and blood. 🤮
this can’t be right. I was raised catholic and I have the word “transubstantiation” burnt into my brain. It means that the cracker and wine have actually become the flesh and blood. So no, it’s not symbolic for christians either
Are they aware of the risk that Jesus‘ flesh could cause prion diseases?
Well, it’s not symbolic for Catholics.
Plenty of other denominations look at you a little funny when you insist transubstantiation happens (and I’m pretty sure whoever started thst doctrine made the word up.)
It was pretty obvious symbolic and metaphorical.
Anything could sound insane if you put it all in a sentence without any explanation tho
Except there largely is no explanation for these occurances in the Bible either. Almost all interpretations are not given in the text and are highly culture-dependent.
The issue is that the claims of the Bible are insane.
I mean I don’t think even there’s any god there but I think you should at least see the bible as a book that tries to explain the existence of humanity. People back then tried to explain why they are and why everything is. Then we have a few thousand years until they start to write down those stories. Those stories are so weird because people didn’t know shit. However the idea of two people creating humanity must be much older than the old testament since the Mayas had a similar belief where a God creates a man and woman.
People who literally believe every word in the bible though are just stupid.
