To me, that’s just proof that this whole god thing is utter nonsense and that the Catholic notion of transubstantiation and the bread and wine is merely a PR move on their part.

I’d like to see a life size jesus statue made of blessed communion wafers, but i suspect i’d be very disappointed when it didn’t lurch into life like some demented holy zombie.

You’d be disappointed? Planning on starting a new sect of Christianity? Because NO ONE believes this is what would happen.

I do so grow weary of a certain type of Catholic who insists that any Catholic who doesn’t swallow whole each and every single teaching of the Catholic church is ignorant and/or uninformed of church teaching. Most Catholics and ex-Catholics and lukewarm Catholics give a lot more thought to these issues than they’re given credit for by the High Holy Pharisees of the Catholic Church, actually.

Anyways, yeah, this is business as usual — create a product, define your target market, and sell it to them. They’ve got middlemen (middle nuns, actually, which is pretty funny) and markups and everything.

there’s nothing particularly special about the communion wafers until the priest gets his hands on them.

Or indeed after the priest gets his hands on them.

I’d like to see a life size jesus statue made of blessed communion wafers, but i suspect i’d be very disappointed when it didn’t lurch into life like some demented holy zombie.

I wonder how they did it before the industrial age?

I assume they just took a regular loaf of bread and blessed it, which some churches still do. As Tao Jones points out, there’s nothing particularly special about the communion wafers until the priest gets his hands on them.

This was great!!! More posts like this! Fun, Informative. Also shows how religion is manufactured.

Actually this post was neither fun nor informative. It, as well as a number of these comments, merely shows an ignorance of what Catholics do believe.

The Eucharist-as-body-of-Jesus comes from the Last Supper which signified a new covenant where the sacrifice of the flesh was Jesus, rather than the animal sacrifices of the old covenant. During the Last Supper, Jesus did not make the bread magically appear (see: loaves and fishes,) instead he took regular plain old unleavened bread and blessed it allowing for transubstantiation. Only then did the bread become the body of Jesus. Likewise, when a priest is performing the Eucharistic prayer, he is asking God to transform the regular bread into the body of Jesus so the covenant can be renewed.

The manufacturing process of the bread is completely and utterly irrelevant. Any Catholic reading this would surely say, “well duh, where do you think the bread comes from?” IT IS JUST BREAD until the Eucharistic Prayer. How else is this bread supposed to be made?

This has about as much newsworthiness as if you said that sour cream and onion potato chips are manufactured without flavouring which is only added later on.

“Well duh”’s all around.

Didn’t “wafergate” teach anyone anything?