#346 — The Best Kept Secret In History?
Making Sense with Sam Harris
**Christians Consuming Flesh and Blood of Christ etc. like Greek Dionysus. **
The Old Testament substituted human sacrifice with animal sacrifice, but retained the concept of sacrifice and consumption of what has been sacrificed. Dionysus, not simply the god of wine, is associated with delirium, frenzy, and madness through communion and drinking his wine, symbolized as his blood. This parallels the christian concept of consuming the flesh and blood of Christ to attain eternal life, a seemingly cannibalistic and drastic idea to ancient Jewish beliefs. The central promise of christianity is immortality through consuming Jesus' flesh and blood, leading to skepticism among a significant percentage of American Catholics.
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