I'm not getting why the Catholic church would insist that a person---any
person---must eat wheaten bread. What part of the Good Book did I miss?
Best,
Judy
On 7 February 2010 20:02, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The scapegoat story repeated? But this time with bread. Bread as a trope
> of redemption from sin also. I am a coeliac and unable to eat wheaten
> bread. The Catholic Church considers me someone not able to be redeemed
> from sin unless I eat wheaten bread. Doing so would, of course, kill me.
>
> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 14:54 +1100, Max Richards wrote:
> > In the late 17th century, the Englishman John Aubrey described sin-eating
> like
> > so:
> > “When the Corps was brought out of the house, and layd on the Biere, a
> Loafe of
> > Breade was brought out, and delivered to the Sinne-eater over the Corps .
> . . in
> > consideration whereof he tooke upon him (ipso facto) all of the Sinnes of
> the
> > Defunct, and freed him (or her) from walking after they were dead.”
> >
> > In Aubrey’s telling, the sin-eaters were poor people at society’s margin,
> in
> > particular “a long, leane, ugly, lamentable poor raskal” who lived alone,
> > presumably surrounded by the many sins he had spent a lifetime taking on.
> >
> > [from David's Orr's NYT review of Frederick Seidel's CP]
> >
> > !!
> >
> >
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