Isn't Cannibalism Bad?

The Eucharist is not meant to be taken literally. Before you flame me, I am not a Christian, I am only a student of it's history and practises.

Please read up on the Catholics side here.

Is killing children bad? Yes.
Is cannibalism bad? Yes.

Do Catholics practice cannibalism? No. From www.catholic.com:

"Catholics don't believe Jesus' presence in the Eucharist is such that the consumption of the Host entails cannibalism. Christ's body and blood aren't present naturally, but supernaturally, under the appearances of bread and wine. This mode of presence rules out cannibalism.

It's accurate to say that while Christ's presence is real and substantial, the mode of consumption, the way in which we eat his body and drink his blood, is, in a sense, spiritual (though not merely symbolic). When the host is consumed, the physical process of eating affects only the accidents of bread, not the substance of Christ's body and blood, which are beyond our power to injure.

Catholics, then, truly unite themselves spiritually to Christ who is really, substantially present, and they do so in a way which involves the bodily act of eating, even though the physical aspects of this process affect only the sign or accidents of bread."

I answered both simple questions.

But your assertion ("I was hoping they could answer my one simple question about the Eucharist:") that the Eucharist is cannibalism is incorrect.

So yes, cannibalism is bad. But the Eucharist is not cannibalism.

And if you think that we are missing the point, then you better restate it, since I can see no other point made in this article.

Be reasonable man. Do you really think that they are pretending to eat Jesus. Jesus says that these things represent his perfect body that was killed. He asked his followers to perform this ceremony in remembrance of him. Jesus did not say come here and take a bite out of my arm. These things were symbols that represented the new covenant that was put in place. Use something else to try and prove your point. Using this just makes you look like an ignorant 12 year old.

I understand that if a girl is rapped by her father and gets pregnant that the relationship with that child would be awkward, but you nor the mother nor any other law or human being has the right to take that life or end it before it begins. If you deny this fact then neither do you yourself have the right to live and anyone can "abort" you without any kind of repercussions.

Funny, having gone to Catholic schools and studied Christianity at university I was under the impression from study and speaking to Catholic clergy that transubstantiation of the essence was Catholic doctrine and if you did not believe it was Christ's body and blood you were not Catholic, despite the fact that Leviticus clearly prohibits the consumption of blood.

MatMoss has a point about it not being cannibalism, but it had to be explained.

That being said, I believe ThinkingRocks was trying to make the point that over-simplification of an issue that many people feel strongly about without even the thought of discussion or admission that others may have different viewpoints is unacceptable. Especially when someone is perfectly willing to defend a gross simplification of their own belief in re:Catholics are cannibals