• ivanafterall
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      48 months ago

      We used oyster crackers and grape juice, so Jesus was pretty tasty and something to look forward to as a kid.

        • ivanafterall
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          18 months ago

          Yep, mostly various flavors of Baptist erring toward the “independent” side of the spectrum. :/

      • Doc Avid Mornington
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        18 months ago

        The UCC I went to every Sunday of my childhood (Dad was the minister, so kinda had to go) would have a loaf of really good fresh bread. Some was cut up in cubes, to take neatly, or you could pull a hunk off the loaf if you liked. One side of the drinks tray had grape juice, the other had wine, again, your choice, although obviously when I was young, I didn’t reach for the wine in front of my mom. Little tiny snack was the best part of church.

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        I thought they were pretty good. No flavor, just texture.

        Though I did always wonder what the more bread-like communion was like at other churches I had only seen pictures of were like.

        • @Albbi@lemmy.ca
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          Though I did always wonder what the more bread-like communion was like at other churches I had only seen pictures of were like.

          I grew up going to a United Church in Canada. It was just white bread cut up into cubes. We would dunk it in some grape juice and eat both together.

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            It’s also just wild how different every church is. I’ve personally consumed the Styrofoam feeling circle wafers when my parents would drag me to church, and I’ve seen what you describe, even sometimes just straight up a whole slice of Rainbow, but also some kind of cracker or unleavened bread which seems more traditional I guess?

            I don’t get why it’s bread tho. It’s an analogue for his flesh right? Why isn’t it a steak? It would pair better with the red wine. 🤤

            • @Albbi@lemmy.ca
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              The reason it’s bread and wine is straight from Jesus mouth I the new testament.

              Luke 22:19–20 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is lthe new covenant in my blood.

              It’s obviously a metaphor, so the churches that preach that communion is consuming the actual flesh and blood and really weird to me. Well it’s all really weird to me now. I was very religious when I was a kid and learned the Bible pretty well, but when I went to university learned how to analyze things better and the religion kinda falls apart.

              • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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                28 months ago

                Luke copied Mark and Mark copied Paul who first mentioned it. Paul got it from Mitharism.

                🤷 When I was a kid I just assumed it was a metaphor/symbolic as well and thought the people who thought it was literal had kooky ideas.

  • Cruxifux
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    “Here kids, eat the flesh of your god” is such a weird thing to do man. It’s funny growing up religious and seeing how indoctrination and normalization works from such a young age.

    Shit seemed normal as fuck back then.

  • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    48 months ago

    I remember when I first heard about the church of the flying spaghetti monster – obvious religious parody not meant to be taken seriously… but then started thinking about the whole “bread is the body of god; wine is the blood” (and they’re pretty literal about that shit). Realized that the christian god and the FSM are both just dinner monsters. The only reason FSM seems silly is that it’s new. Give it a few centuries, if we’re not extinct by then, mark my words the FSM will have a legit cult.

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    Paul stole it from Mitharism which highly likely stole it from other religions that have died out. If you read the account of the last supper it really does have a dream-like quality to it and he hints that he got the revelation of the events through a vision not through humans. Indicating that, assuming he was truthful, he had heard about Mitharism thing and had a hallucination/dream where Jesus was the stand in.

    Later Mark copied it from Paul and the other gospels copied it from him.

    It is just one of the many countless examples that demonstrate that the so-called oral tradition of the NT was at best unbelievably small, maybe a few sentences. Which has no connection to any real person. A myth of a dying and rising God copied from older dying and rising gods myths.

  • Hello_there
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    That’s not a priest. It’s a 49ers fan making their pregame sacrifice to the football gods