To be fair to the ancient Christians, you could argue that the whole philosophical question of "What, exactly, does it mean for a ritual to be 'really' supernatural vs 'just a metaphor'" is something Western civ worked out during and because of the evolution of Christianityhttps://twitter.com/WyredAlice/status/1377140928503144448 …
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That still doesn't change the fact that to a modern person looking back in hindsight, the "transubstantiation debate" is both incredibly weird and incredibly stupid
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That's the danger of making verifiable claims when founding your religion. Best to rely on miracles that happened in the distant past, before photography.
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Well that's the funny thing, like the person I QTed said, if you imagine the scene with Jesus at the Last Supper actually happened irl then *obviously* he was making a metaphor
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He said "Do this in remembrance of me", not "Do this so you can magically summon me there and I can actually talk to you"
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