Cage Match - Gluten vs Holy Communion
I passed a local church yesterday and was quite surprised to see a their huge motivational board proudly proclaiming "ALLERGY / GLUTEN FREE COMMUNION BREAD". That got me thinking... a dangerous activity while driving. If communion magically transforms communion nibbles into the actual body of a Christ, wouldn't it be gluten free anyway. Today Google/Wikipedia sucked me down and into the rabbit hole that's the swirling vortex of Christian dogma. If I'm going to have my brain explode into confused lumps I want to share - so here we are. What we have here is the Catholic tradition of the Eucharist, followed to varying degrees in other Christian sects. The wafer and wine are blessed and undergo Transubstantiation - transforming into the body and blood of Jesus. It turns out that it's not as simple as the communion wafer actually turning into the physical body of Christ. I mean, you can test that sort of thing. The wafers would go all floppy - unless it's ...