On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 21:38 -0800, Judy Prince wrote:
> 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?
Not this pope but the one before. It was one of those little fillers in
newspapers which a work colleague clipped and gave to me for a laugh.
Basically, the pope decreed that gluten free bread will not be made
available for those gluten intolerant when Catholics go up for
communion.
Being gluten intolerant is inherited through celtic genealogy, for
myself, and celts are infidels, I guess you could say. It makes all
sorts of connections like this; may be a way to explain. Since I cannot
eat any wheaten products I am brought into confrontation with this idea
of wheaten bread as being the essential of life which Jesus shares
around. Christ breaks the bread and shares it around, sort of stuff. But
it has to be wheat since gluten free is the food of the pagans. The
cultural importance of wheat is a key to christian faith. Of course,
being homosexual which my work colleague also knew, added to the joke,
since homosexuals don't go to heaven.
Does this explain... if not ask again, of course, best cj
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