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- Sep 9, 2019
Here is my very simple test:How would you know? You don't believe in them in the first place so there's no point convincing you.
You do realize that the Mass is a sacrifice in Catholic (and Orthodox (albeit under the he name of Divine Liturgy)) theology right? As in, by recreating the Last Supper, we believe Jesus Christ becomes present in the bread and wine and makes it his Body and Blood, which he sacrificed for us on Calvary. If you took 10 seconds to look this up on Wikipedia this would be readily apparent. It just shows your lack of interest in learning anything that makes a religion a religion, namely ritual.
If you were on a deserted island with nothing but yourself naked, a bible, and some coconuts for food/water; can you still practice your religion?
If you cry out “NO THERE MUST BE A CHURCH AND A PRIEST THAT KNOWS THE SACRED WORDS AND BLESSED WINE AND BREAD”, then congratulations, you are now arguing that you unable to practice your faith just from the misfortune of being shipwrecked - which is not supported by any of the various similar occasions when Biblical figures were shipwrecked, lost, or deep in the desert; during which God is very much there, and probably more easily recognized and heard than at any other time.
The church is a building. Your priest is just a man. Your wine is just wine, the bread is just bread. These are just placebos that help us just a little to connect with God, but they can all burn to ash and yet you will still be left quite able to have a relationship with God. Hell, even the Bible is just paper and ink. You don’t need it.
Why the fuck do you think Jesus went out to fast? Do you think he was worried about all the time spent listening to rabbis he missed? Fuck no, the privation was good for him.
And stop with the “tee hee, here’s my reading list” shit, if you’d be so very kind. My quip about Liebniz was sarcasm.