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Fun fact some Christians believe the bread and wine literally turn to blood and flesh when you eat them. Like miraculously and in the most literal sense transform. I think there was some pretty big schisms/fights about this.
Catholics mainly are the ones to push this.
@bdonvr @DarrinBrunner
Yeah, that's Catholicism. They've got a couple of weird magical aspects to their faith. Protestants believe it's all symbolic. Not sure what Orthodox Christians believe about this.
I still think it's weird that that's the part Catholics go with literalism on. They usually go with things being metaphors, like the seven day creation story's bit about 'let the earth bring forth' being a reference to evolution, but this thing, specifically, is literal.
As the oldest denomination mysticism is bound to be present and in some cases persist.
The Orthodox Church is equally the oldest (extant) denomination as the Catholic Church and they're not as literal on this topic.
To be fair though, it really does. Everything we eat and drink gets broken down into nutrients, absorbed and used to make new cells. There's nothing spiritual about "you are what you eat."
@bdonvr @DarrinBrunner which makes me think: can you get the eucharist on Fridays.