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I mean if my friends tasted like those styrofoam wafers and red wine... π€·π»ββοΈ
We used oyster crackers and grape juice, so Jesus was pretty tasty and something to look forward to as a kid.
Baptist I presume?
Yep, mostly various flavors of Baptist erring toward the "independent" side of the spectrum. :/
The UCC I went to every Sunday of my childhood (Dad was the minister, so kinda had to go) would have a loaf of really good fresh bread. Some was cut up in cubes, to take neatly, or you could pull a hunk off the loaf if you liked. One side of the drinks tray had grape juice, the other had wine, again, your choice, although obviously when I was young, I didn't reach for the wine in front of my mom. Little tiny snack was the best part of church.
They aren't good...
I thought they were pretty good. No flavor, just texture.
Though I did always wonder what the more bread-like communion was like at other churches I had only seen pictures of were like.
I grew up going to a United Church in Canada. It was just white bread cut up into cubes. We would dunk it in some grape juice and eat both together.
It's also just wild how different every church is. I've personally consumed the Styrofoam feeling circle wafers when my parents would drag me to church, and I've seen what you describe, even sometimes just straight up a whole slice of Rainbow, but also some kind of cracker or unleavened bread which seems more traditional I guess?
I don't get why it's bread tho. It's an analogue for his flesh right? Why isn't it a steak? It would pair better with the red wine. π€€
The reason it's bread and wine is straight from Jesus mouth I the new testament.
It's obviously a metaphor, so the churches that preach that communion is consuming the actual flesh and blood and really weird to me. Well it's all really weird to me now. I was very religious when I was a kid and learned the Bible pretty well, but when I went to university learned how to analyze things better and the religion kinda falls apart.
Luke copied Mark and Mark copied Paul who first mentioned it. Paul got it from Mitharism.
π€· When I was a kid I just assumed it was a metaphor/symbolic as well and thought the people who thought it was literal had kooky ideas.
That sounds like the ones I had growing up catholic. Apparently you can order them on Amazon.
I thought it tasted like Styrofoam! Was I not supposed to eat it?