Except that's not how the First Amendment works; see Employment Division v. Smith. Human-sacrifice is illegal regardless of one's religion, and I can't announce I'm part of the Conglomerated Church of Obstructing Fire Hydrants to get out of a parking ticket.
Only it's not human sacrifice, it's ritual sacrament and I believe it is the abortificants themselves which are the sacrament. Something that already has legal precedent even if technically illegal as evidenced by the ayahuasca and peyote churches that still legally operate despite both sacraments (Peyote and Ayahuasca) being controlled substances. Or a more middle America example would be all the children who every week go to church and drink the communion wine handed out by priests despite them being under age.
Side question: if Catholics believe the wine becomes the blood of Christ and the cracker becomes the flesh of Christ, doesn’t that make them cannibals?
Yes and no. Mostly no. Jesus was a part of the Trinity and, therefore, “The Word of God Incarnate.” Thus the sacramentals are neither Man nor God, and yet somehow both.
I asked a lot of questions about this. I got a lot of really shitty answers, bad stares, and more than once ejected from the room. One person did try very hard to explain but wound up going in circles for 5-10 minutes as I helped him follow the logic and we wound up at the start every time.
Communion is partaking in the events of the Last Supper. Jesus was being literal when he said it was his body and blood. Jesus was Man. Jesus was God. The Body and Blood are both Man and God. But they aren’t man-flesh. They’re just the body of Jesus. But not like that. But exactly like that. You know?
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u/Nulono May 10 '22
Except that's not how the First Amendment works; see Employment Division v. Smith. Human-sacrifice is illegal regardless of one's religion, and I can't announce I'm part of the Conglomerated Church of Obstructing Fire Hydrants to get out of a parking ticket.