Stupidity and religion go hand in hand so often, but this just about takes the cake. An 8-year old girl in New Jersey is being denied communion in her local Catholic church because, due to the girl's allergy to wheat, she cannot consume traditional wheat-based communion wafers. One would think that here in the 21st Century the Church might have a solution for those who are incapable of eating wheat. I guess it does, in a way - you just go to hell. Wheat-less wafers, the church says, aren't sufficient stand-ins for the body of Christ, apparently (I had no idea Christ was composed of wheat). My advise to the girl's family: when your chosen faith damns your child to hell because of a medical condition, they the powers that be to go fuck themselves and just move on.
Friday, August 20, 2004
This Is Why I'm Not Religious
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Or, the mother could let her daughter take the sip of wine which is not harmful to her daughter and fully fulfills the obligation.
While I agree the Church's position is stupidly over doctrinal, the mother is being just as obstinate.
But if non-gluten wafers are a no-no, how does the complete bypass of the wafer make things right? It doesn't sound like it is an either/or proposition (but I could be wrong about that).
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