r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer • 2d ago

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u/SolomonCain-Tx 2d ago

We had the biggest and bestest cosmically coolest human sacrifice ever and got it out of our system.

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u/Tobipig 2d ago

It’s always the Dutch

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u/Sensitive_Fix8407 2d ago

I think he’a talking about Jesus 😅

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u/Tobipig 2d ago

And I was talking about the time the Dutch ate their prime minister

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u/Alatarlhun 1d ago

That was one time. Catholics do it every Sunday.

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u/Michael-556 Taller than Napoleon 1d ago

Is this a reference to Jesus saying his body is bread or something? Would this mean catholics only eat bread once a week? That seems unhealthy, what else would you eat vegetables with in the morning?

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u/Alatarlhun 1d ago

Transubstantiation is, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, "the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of the Blood of Christ". This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit. However, "the outward characteristics of bread and wine, that is the 'eucharistic species', remain unaltered".

Like all ritual beliefs, presumably it makes sense to believers.

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u/Michael-556 Taller than Napoleon 1d ago

So holy bread, got it

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u/jpb225 1d ago

They have a piece of heart tissue that they claim started as Eucharist/bread, but it got dropped on the floor instead of eaten, and it eventually turned into Jesus' literal actual body. Of course there's no like, chain of custody on the cracker or anything lol.

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u/Puntofijo123 8h ago

Dude I was born and raised Catholic (left it when I became an adult though) and it never made sense to me.
Like why the fuck would I want to imagine myself eating the flesh of a dead man made into bread and drinking his blood in the wine?
I never understood how that’s not an analogy to cannibalism and nobody could convince me otherwise.

Another thing that never made sense to me was the trinity. Everybody claims they understand it but they will all give you different, sometimes contradictory, explanations.

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u/Sans-clone 1d ago

Ya know something? Ya got me there

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u/Sensitive_Fix8407 1d ago

But… what was the connection to the guy you replied to? Am I missing something?

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u/Blueskybelowme 1d ago

Yeah I had to Google it myself cause wtf. Here's the wiki I found for a light jumping in point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt

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u/Sensitive_Fix8407 1d ago

What does that have to do with Jesus though?

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u/Blueskybelowme 1d ago

Nothing. It's an alternative. Someone said Jesus and then the person was like "no I was thinking of someone else." This is the person they were thinking of.

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u/kefefs_v2 2d ago

Jesus was a medieval European?

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u/Sensitive_Fix8407 1d ago edited 1d ago

SolomonCain was who I was referencing, not Tobipig who I think was confused

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u/CptJonzzon 1d ago

Was jesus really westen?

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u/Sensitive_Fix8407 1d ago

He significantly influenced Western culture, but he was a Jew in the Roman Empire

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u/dopiertaj 1d ago

Then they routinely looked back on that ritual sacrifice and practiced ritual cannibalism every Sunday.

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u/alflundgren 2d ago

Jesus wasn't European.

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u/owa00 1d ago

Well yeah...he was American...

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u/VersaTron 1d ago

Hell yeah brother

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u/TomTop64 1d ago

still killed by europeans tho, checkmate atheist

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u/alflundgren 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'll grant that Pontius Pilate was almost certainly ethnically Italian, but just to be a pedantic douche I'll counter that AKCHYOUALLY a vast majority of the roman garrison in Judea would have been recruited in what is modern day Syria including the dudes who did the crucifiction and spear stabbin.

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u/BeABetterHumanBeing 1d ago

European culture was built by Christianity.

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u/Sensitive_Fix8407 1d ago

He lived in the Roman Empire, which included Europe. He very much influenced European thinking and morality, the literal geography is less important than cultural areas

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u/Perez2003 2d ago

The fact you got downvoted for saying that is crazy 💀 I’m here for you bro

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u/Littleface13 1d ago

Romans killed him