God says, “EAT ME!”:
Really, Horribly Tasteless Things in Christianity, like Communion
(Mat. 26.26; Mark 14.8; Luke 22.19; 1 Corin. 11.24, etc.) by Brettongarcia
Modern Christians love to proudly think of themselves, as being very sensitive; sharing and caring and loving others, and loving God. And they think of their rituals as beautiful, even awesome. But let's think this through for a moment; try to see just how really, truly DISTASTEFUL they and their ancient rituals, seem to genuinely sensitive people.
Here one recent story intends to inspire; with a tale of a convert, putting ash marks on the foreheads of street people. From an external objective point of view? This girl especially, is pretty creepy: walking around in dark robes, putting black marks on the foreheads of homeless people in San Francisco. And what happens when we look at this more closely; what does that symobolize, objectively speaking? Of course we have the Christian explanation. But more broadly? “Marking” people, is generally not good. Marking people as “unclean,” with black, is not really a positive thing at all; in the old days, they were often marked for extermination. While the Christian meaning in fact allows that this mark in part, IS a condemnation; sinners wear black ashes on them.
But let's look deeper into this Christian lady. Listen to how she got to this: she took communion, she ate the bread of communion one day - and had an epiphany. More exactly, she said, “I have god in my mouth.”
Can any Christians really hear themselves? Here anyone with any sensitivity to art, literature, symbols, will hear overwhelming symbols of … massive, crushing Vanity, among other things. And then? Worse things still. Can we think about the poetic resonances of THIS, of communion for a second? Only a really, truly, GROSSLY insensitive person would participate in such a thing, as communion or the Eucharist; where God allegedly tells us to “eat” him.
God gives us a piece of bread, and tells us that it is his “body.” And then tells us to eat it!?? Any intelligent person who knows literature, symbolism, instantly should hear references to 1) cannibalism; 2) oral eroticism. Maybe even 3) eating – and thereby destroying – God? Then there is 4) the vanity of presuming that your own mouth IS god. With undertones of 5) Necrophilia; coprophagy; coprolalia.
Good lord. Modern liberal, spiritual Christians pride themselves on having gone well beyond ancient, primitive beliefs, and fundamentalist Christianity. In particular, they pride themselves on their own alleged sensitivity, and love for others; and their beautiful rituals. But do modern Christians realize just how truly, utterly, shockingly primitive, selfdeluded, backward, and tasteless they really are. They presume to travel around in black robes, putting black marks on the foreheads of others; marking them as “sinners.” Then telling them to eat God; or consume what comes out of their mouths, like ...vomit or spittle. Or regurgitated necrophiliac remains. “Eat me,” cries their idea of God. (A good god for San Francisco, to be sure?).
These people refer to “the beauty of the mass,” of the Eurcharist. But those people obviously are artless, and have no sense or sensitivity at all. To sensitive people , to those who know a little about literature, language, and symbolism … the mass, the Eucharist, is literally, an utter, complete, tasteless horror story. It is an exercise in the very, very darkest foolishness and evil. Worse, it is a story told loud and proud. By incredibly deaf, insensitive, destructive people.
The fact is that we all, every one of us, needs to move on past traditional Christianity; and “modern” liberal spiritual Christianity too. With its continuing symbolic consumption of cannibalism, and worse things yet. And foretunately, there is a way, a “day” when this is supposed to happen: the Bible told us that one “day,” God would give us “judgement”; and suddenly we would see that the very priests and prophets we had thought were absolutely holy and good and “noble,” were really “fools.” And deceived persons, following false prophets and unclean things.
And today would be a good day for that awareness, to begin to dawn on many of us. They and their false God. Who says, basically, even literally: “Eat me!”
If only our very refined Christians could hear themselves. But clearly, they have not; clearly, they have all been utterly deaf to language, to poetry, to truth. Still, we are told that one heaven-shattering day or another, the deaf will begin to hear. And maybe some of you are beginning to hear, even now?
Let every Christian learn to see and hear; what was wrong in what you were told was holy. Let's all of us move on to something better; to a second and better view of God and good. One well past conservative fundamentalists, and “sensitive” and “loving” modern liberal Christians as well.
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