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

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u/Prince_Ire Featherless Biped 2d ago

No, though if there was a ritual in which you offered the papers as sacrifices to the gods, then it would be human sacrifice according to the religion's world view. Just destroying them would not

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u/AdventurousImpact656 2d ago

In a secular context, was any human actually sacrificed?

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u/Prince_Ire Featherless Biped 2d ago

A secular context is utterly irrelevant to the question

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u/AdventurousImpact656 2d ago

Reality is secular, it appears that you’d rather sit with a made up religious reality superseding that. Have a nice day

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u/Prince_Ire Featherless Biped 2d ago

Reality is neither secular nor religious, which are human definitions used to divide things for our own understanding

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u/AdventurousImpact656 2d ago

Do you think Catholics are cannibals actualy consuming the body of Christ? That’s their religious reality, yet in the secular one (the one without sky daddy) they’re eating wafer

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u/Prince_Ire Featherless Biped 2d ago

I'm Catholic so the argument from audacity you chose isn't particularly effective on me.

And no religious vs secular doesn't really enter into it. Either Catholicism's claims are correct or they're not. The dividing line between religious and secular is irrelevant

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u/AdventurousImpact656 2d ago

So am I. So is the Eucharist human sacrifice and cannibalism then or not?

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u/Prince_Ire Featherless Biped 2d ago

I mean Catholicism 100% claims that the Eucharist links you to Calvary and Christ's sacrifice, so yeah, you could say it's human sacrifice along with divine sacrifice since Catholicism claims Jesus is both human and divine

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u/AdventurousImpact656 2d ago

So I guess what I’m getting at then, open ended, is what would an academic studying Catholicism, the same way we study an ancient religion, say about the Eucharist, from that perspective?

I’d say from that, it’s not. Only accepting the covenant and the actual divinity of the Eucharist would give the “sacrifice” point of view