Why is it that if I claim that the keyboard, I’m typing this on, regularly turns into?
green cheese from the planet Krypton, then everyone will call me insane, but if someone claims that the bread they are eating and the wine they are drinking are turning into the flesh and blood of a guy born of a virgin, who is his own father, and who rose from the dead 2000 years ago, then he’s called a Catholic and should be respected for his faith?
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Because there aren't enough people that believe your keyboard regularly turns into green cheese from the planet Krypton. If there were several billion people that believed that your keyboard regularly turns into green cheese from the planet Krypton, then no one would question it. They would just believe it happens when they're not looking on faith.
It's all a numbers game.
What gets me is that they believe they are eating the actual body and drinking the actual blood , yet they do not consider themselves to be cannibals. Dough "rises" to become bread, and the alleged biblical Jesus supposedly "rose" to become a Christian icon, therefore, bread is a Christian icon. Logical isn't it?
No one believes you about the cheese because, while kryptonite may be green, the cheese from Krypton is actually purple. I am sure people will begin to believe you once you let them taste the keyboard cheese. ;-)
You don't have to respect Catholics. Under the Constitution of the US, you just have to get out of the way and stop telling Catholics what to believe or how to worship.
Obama has pissed on the US Constitution so much in the last few weeks that he will in no way get reelected. Even VP Biden distanced himself from Obama. Liberals have even walked off knowing he pushed his stupidity too far.
This is a free country with freedom of speech. That is why you can say offensive things about the Catholic faith and I can tell you that you sound like a really uneducated moron. You can be wrong and I can be correct and we can both go our separate ways.
I can agree with you that transubstantiation is a flawed doctrine. However, the reality of the situation is that Christ Jesus of Nazareth is the Word of God made flesh, God with us, showing us the Way. And it is written, "Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." So when we internalize His teachings and the Word and let it change us for the better, we are not living by bread alone, but by every word that has proceeded out of the mouth of God.
It would be evil uncouth uncool lowbrow contrary to my faith and generally socially unacceptable to persecute you or try to belittle you for your belief regarding green cheese and the planet Krypton, Furthermore, if I were to go into Yahoo Answers->cheeses->Krypton in an attempt to belittle those of your ilk, I would only be reinforcing your position that YES, there IS something there worth believing in and 'worth persecuting'.
Each person has his or her own time, it is about a personal relationship with God, all cultural christianity is false christianity, although you may be born again by reading their tracts or attending their churches, honoring with the lips and outwardly does nothing. Do not let the actions of the cultural christian dissuade you, God loves you, He opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. He is close to the poor, gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Remember in your day of trouble, call upon the name of the Lord Christ Jesus of Nazareth, take just one step forward with a humble heart trusting God and you will be pleasantly surprised, you will see miracles happen.
While in essence I agree totally with you. The problem is that you have it wrong. The claim is not that the bread and wine turn into flesh and blood. But that the bread and wine represent the flesh and blood. There is a big difference in that.
The only difference between a religion and a cult is how much money they have. Earn a billion dollars and people will listen to you too.
Because everybody knows that on Krypton they don't have molded cheeses...
Every time communion is taken it is said to "represent flesh and blood" not that it turns into it. It is used as a reminder of things and symbolic. You are the only one I know who said it actually turns into it.
Don't you love it when people lie to make a point.
you need the threat of something bad happening if we don't believe that your keyboard turns into green cheese.
@Tony R:"You are the only one I know who said it actually turns into it."
You don't know about transubstantiation, do you?
It's part of the Catholic doctrine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation