I remember a news story a long while ago where Catholics were starting to feel pretty uneasy about kids all sipping wine from the same vessel during First Communion or whatever and a priest interviewed insisted the Eucharist was naturally sterile because, body and blood of Christhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1237149107925291009 …
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He was all like "hurr durr there's no records of anyone getting sick from the Eucharist in all of human history" and it's like. Do you know how hard it is to decisively prove food contamination Also do you know how easy it is to smear a communion wafer on an agar plate
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Though as a misotheist and a dystheist and a student of history I have to say If people are catching a disease at a church it's only because God wants his servants to spread it to decent people so he can watch them die
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Replying to @Batshua @Nymphomachy
Just be glad that very few churches still literally practice the "holy kiss" with their fellow worshipers after communion as described in the New Testament (Among Americans it's usually a handshake, which according to epidemiologists is only a bit better than a kiss, but still)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Very glad that I am rarely at a church service. Jews don't do handshakes at services unless you get an honor.
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Replying to @Batshua @Nymphomachy
Yeah I'm not sure you'd be allowed to participate in the kissing anyway, it's for your family in Christ only (The traditionalists angry about the erosion of the tradition greatly dislike that the holy kiss has become indistinguishable from a "secular handshake of welcome")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Awesome! I definitely would prefer not to kiss a bunch of strangers.
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Replying to @Batshua @Nymphomachy
The idea is supposed to be if you've taken communion together, you're no longer strangers but family, and family kiss each other on the mouth
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
MY family most certainly DOES NOT. Wow. I learned things today.
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The ancient Romans (and Jews) had a lot of unsavory rumors about Christians being cannibal perverts who ate corpses and had orgies afterwards, and you can tell how the original description of communion (the "love feast") might give that impression
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