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Here some chitty-chat with real life cannibals:
It's also a deep rooted human fear, of course. That partly explains the popularity of "zombie" flesh eating scenarios in fiction, film, and television, including my favorite, "The Walking Dead". I haven't missed a single episode.
Exactly!
They do have the same sense of morality as anyone else. One of these cannibals, at 3:37 of the video, said:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQLzz7qorws#t=3m37s
"Sorcerers see us as animals and so they prey on us. Normal people shouldn't eat each other, because we're all human."
What a statement coming from a cannibal!
Unfortunately they believe, that some "evil" people cause diseases of other people (and diseases "eat people").
These disease-causing guys are the "sorcerers" and they must be eaten, or they will magically "eat" others.
I'm also watching "The Walking Dead"! Great series! Also haven't missed a single episode.
It makes a bizarre sort of sense. The "sorcerer" eats the victim from the inside, so you eat the sorcerer to ingest your loved one and keep him with the tribe. Obviously this kind of belief has been part of the human psyche for a long time. It has its echos in the transubstantiation of the Christian Mass.
Communion is nothing like what these guys did. They're killing and eating sorcerers in self-defense. I never remember them saying they eat sorcerers from the inside to ingest loved ones that were killed by the sorcerers. Communion is purely symbolic of the sacrifice Jesus made of his flesh(bread) and blood(wine) on the Cross. Totally different.
That's why I said it echoes it, just as the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ echoes the Osiris cycle or the Death of the King in Greek religion and mythology. If you're a believer, you think that these other religious expressions pre-figured Christianity. If you're not you think Christianity just amalgamated and absorbed these archetypal myths.
I agree with Angela, the idea is the same, just different form.That's a stretch. Why would several differnt people create nearly identical stories and belies, knew Jesus personally, etc. straight up lie and life/die for a lie? Why would Matthew be impaled for a lie that he made up? Just doesn't make sense. Christianity wasn't a gradual cultural development we can see it's existence a few short generations after Jesus's birth. Sure if it was a gradual cultural development you could say, "well they borrowed from this neighboring culture, etc.". But that isn't the case.
That's a stretch. Why would several differnt people create nearly identical stories and belies, knew Jesus personally, etc. straight up lie and life/die for a lie? Why would Matthew be impaled for a lie that he made up? Just doesn't make sense. Christianity wasn't a gradual cultural development we can see it's existence a few short generations after Jesus's birth. Sure if it was a gradual cultural development you could say, "well they borrowed from this neighboring culture, etc.". But that isn't the case.
I agree with Angela, the idea is the same, just different form.
Where did I ever say that they're the same? Did you read the articles to which I linked? You're entirely missing the point.
As for your take on the nature and meaning of the Eucharist, I'm very familiar with it. It is, however, a minority view, different from that of not only Roman Catholics but Eastern Orthodox Catholics, Lutherans, and Anglicans. (minus some minor differences) Of course, you're entitled to believe as you choose.
For your own personal knowledge, you might be interested in the following, but I'm afraid any further discussion of it is pretty far off topic for this thread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharistic_theology
I really don't see how that view is differnt from my own. There's certainly symbolism and non-literally language when Gospels describe communion. No one believes it literally, physically becomes Jesus's body and blood. Everyone believes spiritually in one way or another it does and that it references the cross.
The point is that part of the power of Christianity is that it has either amalgamated and absorbed most of the ancient myths of western Eurasia, myths that speak to the deepest yearnings of the human psyche, and sometimes to ancient practices as well, or those myths pre-figured the coming of Christ, who embodies all those yearnings. It all depends on your point of view.
As for the differences in Eucharistic theology, they are profound, despite the fact that in neither case is a human body being consumed. In one tradition, the Eucharist is a sacrament, a mystical experience where the bread and wine do indeed become the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and in the other it's just an act of remembrance of the last supper. In one tradition it is the central act of the worship service, indeed of the Christian life, and in the other it is not even done all that frequently.
As I said, the differences are profound.
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