Eating Crackers, Drinking wine, Killing children

EINSTEIN ONCE SAID "the world is a madhouse". He may've had a point. Roughly two thousand years ago a great guy had a dinner party with a group of friends, for the last time. Allegedly there were twelve participants. Rumor has it that a thirteenth guest showed up, uninvited. Bad luck. We don't know for sure whether the uninvited guest was turned away, nor, for that matter, whether this dinner party actually occurred. Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story, said mark Twain, roughly. but anyway, out came the wafers and the wine, and everyone had a snack. It is alleged that the great guy wanted to be cannibalized, symbolically, to enhance the memory of himself, and to share himself intimately with his friends. give credit where credit is due; this guy knew how to share himself, and how to attract attention. To this very day millions of people engage in a reenactment of the symbolic eating of flesh and blood known as the "Eucharist", for whatever reason. Is it possible that the word "eucharist" translates from the Latin as "the consumption of Christ"? The madness does not end there. Not only does the Bible seem to encourage symbolic cannibalism, it explicitly instructs parents to kill their children when the rug rats disobey or argue with their parents. Christians universally refuse to condemn this arguably barbaric passage in Leviticus in admirably amazing and creative ways, having to do with historical context and translation. To defend the indefensible is indefensible, or something like that. however, considering the barbaric nature of human history and the state of the current human condition, little wonder that the barbaric rantings of an angry god still hold sway over millions of primitive primates.