Since I made some comments about the anti-Catholic site iconbusters.com some
time ago they have placed me on their mailing list. They must have googled my
site found my email and decided that I was much in need of being on their mailing list.
It is a great sadness the lack of unity in Christianity and I understand that
the people that run this site think they are helping to do the Lord’s work by
converting us heathen Catholics. I might poke fun at the methods this group
uses, but I have also kept them in my prayers.
Anyway they have announced their latest Flash animation in their Hypocrites
on Parade section titled The
Church of Signs & Lying Wonders: Eucharist Miracles. It is quite amusing
to watch this multimedia Chick Tract style presentation and I would encourage
you to do so. The Onion could hardly have come up with a better parody of fundamentalist attitudes.
I just wish that if they don’t believe in the Eucharist they could at least
attack the true Catholic belief in the Eucharist and not to pervert what we
believe. They talk about not seeing the transubstantiation (though they didn’t
use the technical term) as proof of it’s falseness. If they could have put Jesus
under the microscope they also would not have been able to detect the Incarnation.
They also make the claim that we eat our creator and then then later flush him
down the toilet. Any check of Catholic Theology would reveal:
In the Church’s traditional theological language, in
the act of consecration during the Eucharist the “substance” of the bread and
wine is changed by the power of the Holy Spirit into the “substance” of the
Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
and that the Church does not believe that the real presence exists only as
long as the accidents exist and such would not make it through our digestive
track. I have normally heard the time frame as being around 15 minutes before
the accidents would have dissolved. My theological language isn’t very precise,
but the point I am trying to make is that they are attacking something we don’t
believe.
Update: A Saintly Salmagundi received the same email I did.
