@sun @7666 @arcana

I can't fault you there, because I have a similar relationship with other ancient myths.

In terms of transubstantiation specifically, in my view that has to do with "you are what you eat". If you choose to regard the land and it's produce as sacred gifts (as I do), then consuming products of the land like grain and meat, has an inherently sacralizing effect upon the consumer. A large part of that has to do with cultivating gratitude, and acceptance and respect for the cycle of death and rebirth which like that food we thus consume, we are all bound to in due course.

Personally I think this is where Abrahamic religion has gone off the rails. It's taken a perfectly good sentiment like respect for the sanctity of life and death, and turned it into some kind of asinine fantasy about a superhero who will supposedly save you in a fictional afterlife from being tortured for things the superhero did to you in the first place. It's retarded and totally misses the point. Instead of honouring a commonplace reality of nature and reaffirming our connection to it, it turns it into some kind of infantile delusion.