{"id":203,"date":"2012-11-18T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/?p=203"},"modified":"2012-11-18T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:02:14","slug":"vegans-and-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/2012\/11\/18\/vegans-and-catholicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegans and Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had occasion to attend a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maronite_Church\">Maronite Catholic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baptism\">Baptism<\/a> today. During the service, they, being Catholic, had the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eucharist\">Eucharist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It got me to thinking.\u00a0 I know the Catholics believe that the Eucharist is not only a symbolic transformation, but is actual<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transubstantiation\"> transubstantiation<\/a>. According to Catholic proclamation, the material actually becomes the body and blood of Christ.\u00a0 It is meat and blood, not bread and wine.<\/p>\n<p>So, are there any <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vegan\">vegan<\/a> Catholics and how do they square one belief system with the other?<\/p>\n<p>I asked around after the ceremony and most everyone in the church said, &#8220;It&#8217;s just bread and wine.&#8221;\u00a0 Which means that those people who profess to be Catholic don&#8217;t follow the tenets of the faith to which the claim allegiance.\u00a0 Of course we know that most Catholics disobey the church in several areas, the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/post\/the-claim-that-98-percent-of-catholic-women-use-contraception-a-media-foul\/2012\/02\/16\/gIQAkPeqIR_blog.html\">prevalent is the use of contraceptives<\/a>. Even if the 98% figure depends on some fudging of numbers, there&#8217;s still upwards of 60+% of Catholic women who do use contraceptives.\u00a0 (I&#8217;m not about to get into the whole 15-18 year-old girls who are Catholic and sexually active.)<\/p>\n<p>Contraceptives, transubstantiation, morality, etc.\u00a0 Why are there even Catholics anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had occasion to attend a Maronite Catholic Baptism today. During the service, they, being Catholic, had the Eucharist. It&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,11],"tags":[138,139,140,141],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-skepticism","tag-catholicism","tag-eucharist","tag-transubstantiation","tag-vegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}