• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    this can’t be right. I was raised catholic and I have the word “transubstantiation” burnt into my brain. It means that the cracker and wine have actually become the flesh and blood. So no, it’s not symbolic for christians either

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Well, it’s not symbolic for Catholics.

      Plenty of other denominations look at you a little funny when you insist transubstantiation happens (and I’m pretty sure whoever started thst doctrine made the word up.)

      It was pretty obvious symbolic and metaphorical.

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      11 months ago

      Yep, I remember struggling to learn to pronounce transubstantiation when I was 7 and in speech therapy because I was struggling to pronounce anything correctly. So I was just forced to practice it over and over and over again.