Straight out of pagan sacrificial rituals.

Brainwashing can convince a child that this is sacred and good. It is god's way of uniting with us, albeit for just a few moments. After all if Christ did this with his apostles before he died, it must be true.

I cannot believe that I never questioned this until age 70.

What a power trip for the male clergy.

It never sounded appealing to me even as a kid in Catholic education. Yuk.

Cannibalism is always good in a survival situation.

It is ridiculous, especially when you consider it’s just crackers and grape juice.

Makes me think of Aztec ceremonies

How much trouble WOULD you be in if you brought cheeze wiz to communion?

Ironically, when I was an evangelical, that was pretty much our take on the doctrine of transubstantiation, which seems just as weird to a fundamentalist Christian as to an atheist.

To us, communion was just a symbolic remembrance.

That's rich in irony too, because we were literalists, and yet understood that "this is my body, take, eat of it" was metaphorical and symbolic. It's really an odd twist that Catholicism decided to take that particular thing literally when on balance it takes so many other things symbolically, especially compared to fundamentalists.

It is 'ritual cannibalism'. Some think the food stuffs turn into the DNA of their gods. All of them will deny ritualistic cannibalism to their last breaths. But I still enjoy watching the wheels go around when I tell them this.