Munchies
CM: … Isn’t Communion a form of cannibalism?
Visser: The Eucharist is blinding, it’s so incredible. It’s one of the richest, the most extraordinary rituals ever devised. I’m not talking about the belief in it. Just look at it analytically. It smashes all the categories of our culture: all of them. […]
You see, there are two ways in which human beings are brought together most completely. One is by killing them, namely the scapegoat, and one is by eating together. And the Eucharist, of course, is about both. So it’s the ultimate uniting thing. But you see how food can say things like that.
Only food could do the trick, because it’s an outside thing that comes inside. It’s one thing that we all share. We all eat it; we all become one. Human beings have been going on about food and its meaning since we were squatting around fires in caves. It’s the great metaphor. Much more important than sex. Sex is really a latecomer.
– From an interview with the ritually brilliant Margaret Visser.
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- i was kicked out of CCD in the seventh grade for suggesting that communion is cannabalism. have never really recovered from the incident. brilliant quote though – thank you.
— semaphoria Jun 2, 2:27pm #
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