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The ritualized cannibalism bit is transubstantiation, the belief that the blood(wine) and body(bread) of Jesus turn into his real blood and body during consecration in catholic mass.
But you could make a dig into it overall just beacuase the bread and wine are symbolic ritual cannibalism, very culty sounding when you look at it from another angle.
As you said though, that's a Catholic tradition, not Christianity as a whole, and it isn't directly supported by the Bible. Its their unique interpretation of the act of communion. The actual text seems pretty metaphorical IMO.
Communion is not really just a catholic tradition, and it is not a wild interpretation to make when a dude says these 2 things sybolically represent my flesh and blood, calling the whole ritual symbolic cannibalism is not a stretch.
I didn't say communion was only a catholic tradition. I said transubstantiation (the thing that you were talking about that I replied to) is only a catholic tradition. Calling the transubstantiation cannibalism is one thing, but calling communion cannibalism when it is entirely symbolic is absolutely a stretch.
Well considering nearly, if not all modern offshoots of Christianity are rooted in Catholocism, I don't really see why you they need to be separated so. The communions practiced in protestant offshoots are kind of bound to their origins no?
And once again, symbolically eating the flesh and blood of your deity can be referred to as symbolic ritual cannibalism, whether or not you believe that it is literally turning into the blood and flesh of your deity in your stomach.
Considering that religious offshoots typically occur because of disagreement in teachings and interpretation, no, they're not bound to their origins at all.
Lmao, you're grasping at straws mate.
You are right and wrong.
Martin Luther had a problem with the idea of transubstantiation, but also rejected memorialism (the idea that you were taking the bread and wine to memorialize Christ's sacrifice). Martin aruged that the literal body and blood of Christ were "in, with, and under" the sacraments. His reforms denied the magical transformation of transubstantiation, but vehemently defended the literal presence of Christs blood and flesh in the sacraments.
In other words, symbolic ritual cannibalism. Maybe some modern protestant offshoots disagree, but this is definitely not contained to catholocism.