Anything I wrote would be a repeat of other debunkings of the “miracle”. Here are a few for your reading:

http://arumanchan.blogspot.com/2008/08/eucharist-miracles-miracle-of-lanciano.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080823075211AA7tIya (More discussion / raising questions than debunking)

http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/archive/index.php/t-247579.html

Of course I’d be very willing to discuss any questions you have about this.

Well I would do that but I’ve never actually heard of it happening. If you find me an instance of it happening I’d gladly try and debunk it.”

Im still waiting you to “debunk it” buddy.

The stock magicians’ formula is an old parody of the Latin phrase “hoc est corpus” for ‘this is god’s body’ said at the elevation of a wafer (the host) at mass.

RCs by the millions still accept late hellenistic magical texts as sacred. And you thought theurgy — summoning a god’s presence and forcing “him” to act through incantations — had died out.

You simply cannot desecrate what is not sacred in the first place. Ods bodkins! But now, I’m begging the question whether “god’s little bodies” are just completely non-nutritious substitutes for the old agapé fest. It’ll take more than Aquinas’ gloss on The Philosopher’s dead metaphysics to make theurgy plausible.

If you can believe the dogma of transubstantiation; then you can believe anything the Magisterium demands. The RC’s dogmata on abortion and stem cell research are on a par with papal infallibility and the redemptive value of suffering. One authoritative irrationality is as sound as another.

Well, as ex-RC Luther said, “Reason is the devil’s whore.” And Paul of Tarsus, never one to be shy, puts xian revenge seeking high on his list of nihilistic values:

27-But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28-He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are . . . . 1Cor1:26-28 NIV

OK, so Paul was the laughingstock of Athens on the day he tried to convince the Epicureans and Stoics that they were sinners in the hands of angry god.

Old grudges against skepticism and science apparently still justify a holy xian fatwah. As the crusade against PZ Myers proves — he at least is on the correct side of the barricades.

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That’s from St. Mark Shea’s blog, “Catholic and enjoying it!” But no. He’s not really a saint, though I’m going to call him that from now on since he acts like he gets infallible information from his divine pipelines, Jesus and the church.

You can find it pretty easily by typing “mark shea” into Google.

He banned me a couple days ago. After saying I had too much pride and should come back when I could stand having my arguments refuted.

I wonder If I’m the only one who feels like he didn’t really refute the arguments that well, rather than pontificate on the issues without proving anything?

Something I notice with him, and with many of the commentors, is that they make all these tangled logical webs to justify things. Bread looks like bread, but isn’t bread. Only, it differs from bread in a way invisible to our senses. Stuff like that. They even went so far as to say that it differs from bread for a fifteen minute period, during the Mass. That way, Jesus doesn’t regularly get digested and excreted. Since they do claim that the bread is *literally*, though also invisibly, the body and blood, soul and spirit, of the risen Jesus. I had commented before that if Jesus did remain present in the bread on it’s entire trip through the body, Catholics would be turning Jesus into shit every Sunday.

The prominent one, the miracle of Lanciano, which occurred in 700 AD, still exists today and has been tested in the early 1970’s by two Italian scientists. Anyways…

The secret is that I KNOW it was really a three course roast dinner that I just swallowed.

I’m so excited about all the weight and brain cells I’m losing.

Well I would do that but I’ve never actually heard of it happening. If you find me an instance of it happening I’d gladly try and debunk it.