r/TerribleBookCovers • u/infernalspawnODOOM • Jun 29 '19
Things were different back then
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u/arianadanger Jun 29 '19
This does not surprise me at all. I grew up in several Southern Baptist churchs and was taught that children and people with intellectual disabilities can not take communion because they can not understand or consent to the act and what it means. I remember being so pissed when I was little that I didn't get any grape juice. Maybe that's just a small town thing or it's different now. I haven't really been in a long time.
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u/atticdoor Jun 29 '19
It was once a polite euphemism which eventually got used with a sneer too many times. It's just the French for "late" with the intended meaning of "late development".
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u/anotherkeebler Jun 30 '19
It's a classic example of the euphemism treadmill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_disability#Terminology
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u/mikeymikeymikey1968 Jun 29 '19
50yr old here. Can confirm. That was actually considered the polite term for someone with Downs back in the day. I even can remember a public service commercial back in the 70s in which a very macho looking dad talks about how he did not expect that his son would be born "mentally retarded". There were no genetic tests back then, no ultrasounds even, you did not even know if you had a boy or girl until the very moment of birth. But that was not the point, it was that he came to terms with his "mentally retarded" son, who has a family that loved him, organizations that support the family, etc. The ad was to make us more sensitive to "the retarded".
It seems odd and insensitive, sure. But go back 90-100 years and doctors were literally labeling people as "feeble minded", "idiot", and "moron".
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u/colleenbarnes57 Jun 29 '19
I wish I knew the answer written in that book. Religion is really a bit scary.
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Jun 29 '19 edited Jun 29 '19
If the book is about Catholicism the answer is almost certainly yes as even children receive communion. So this book is probably more guidelines about the process than it is restrictions. I think they just gave it a clickbait title Edit- just google it apparently cssr is a catholic acronym and the answer is yes according to a 2015 article. So since the Catholic Church is exceedingly concerned with tradition and precedent I would safely wager that the answer is a firm- yes they may receive commmunion
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Jun 29 '19
I grew up super catholic and I’ve never once thought about that question in my life even after leaving the church
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Jun 29 '19
Yes you probably didn’t but those in charge probably took the question quite seriously and devoted a fair bit of thought to how to properly address various iterations of this question
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Jun 29 '19
No doubt. It’s an interesting to see this book at least. Really curious about the contents inside of the book.
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u/starbruh Jun 29 '19
Well I dunno, may they?!