Could Jesus make a Celiac so allergic he couldn’t receive Him?

  • Zier
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    1911 months ago

    You can buy rice crackers at the supermarket now. No need to go to church anymore.

  • Zeppo
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    1611 months ago

    Celiac technically isn’t an allergy, but yes. Some denominations will give you a gluten free communion wafer. Catholicism, however, requires one that contains wheat although it’s possible to get a very low gluten option that probably won’t trigger a reaction.

      • Zeppo
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        311 months ago

        Yeah, hopefully it would be clearly labeled. I went to a Presbyterian church one time and at their communion, everyone else got wonderful looking artisan brown bread. They gave me this weird half-and-half cup with brown looking wine and this tiny 1 cm chip of theoretically gluten free cracker sealed on top. It was kinda interesting so I just kept it.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆
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    11 months ago

    The actual sacrament you get is usually made with wheat so it probably has some gluten in it. Though I am sure there are gluten free options.

    The guy himself? Might depend on how much bread he ate but I don’t know enough about the nutritional facts of a human body to answer with certainty.

  • NaibofTabr
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    911 months ago

    Which part of His body did you get? The spleen? A bit of intestine? One of the toes?

    • Orbituary
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      811 months ago

      You drink his blood and eat his body… Vampirism and cannibalism. Way to go catholics.

      (thanks Eddie)

        • TheRealKuni
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          211 months ago

          It’s only cannibalism if you are also a god. Otherwise its deitism?

          Ah, but the Athanasian creed clearly teaches the doctrine of hypostatic union, that Jesus is fully god but also fully man.

          Since he is fully man, eating his body would indeed be cannibalism. Don’t take away the most metal part of Christianity.

        • @meco03211@lemmy.world
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          211 months ago

          There’s an Abbot and Costello skit in there somewhere. “You’re on a new diet?” “No I said deit.”

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    11 months ago

    Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.”

    That doesn’t sound like a gluten-free loaf.

  • @grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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    311 months ago

    My mom us a retired Episcopalian priest. She said there are gluten-free wafers you can get if someone in the congregation needs them. She also said that it doesn’t have to be a wafer, one of her priest buddies once consecrated a pancake to make a point that it doesn’t matter what’s being consecrated, it’s all God’s creation.

    Note: I am not religious and do not hold these beliefs myself

    • SolidGrueOP
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      211 months ago

      Mom’s priest buddy is my spirit animal. That’s awesome.