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Originally Posted by Ohio
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The bread and wine are variously called symbols, elements, emblems, etc. by the church. The Lord told us to "do this" in remembrance of HIM.
Those who take the words "this is My body" literally only promote vain superstitions. I grew up in that magic show called the Mass. As an altar boy I constantly watched the priest magically transform that wafer into God. Then after the Mass, the priest had to lock up the tabernacle on the altar so that no one could "steal God" from the church.
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You know, if it was only that there was believed to be some mystical thing that happened to the bread and wine during communion, it would just be a strange, unsupportable teaching. But once you have to lock up what is not eaten so that people don't steal it and take it home to put on wounds, on crops, etc., in expectation of a miracle, then it has truly gone off the deep end.
Reminds me of that scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Indie takes a cup of water out of the chamber and pours it on his dad who was seriously wounded by a bullet and the site of the wound miraculously closing up. If only Hollywood (and the RCC) could be true.