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BTW - I so enjoy your essays . . .

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Thank you for this. Feel much the same at times. I've been in the Church. Then rejected it. And am back again. It's a complex orthodoxy. I still rely on the "gates of Hell" thing.

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Glad you started your bleating / blogging! It seems such a strange little niche, talking about this confession of near a billion Catholics, this church that dominated, verily: constituted, "our" civilization for most of two millennia. But if one cares, that is "so fringe, meh".

"They put god in my mouth" - funny, I would not have come up with this one. And few long-time ( Catholics (since 1/7/787) I know, would. But, yep, it's one of the unique selling points. - Right now, I feel on the verge/edge? of returning to church. Seems "my" Catholic church won't let me, so I might end up in another chain. Lutheran. Worse work-dress, I agree. But Realpräsenz, they can do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_presence_of_Christ_in_the_Eucharist

btw (for other readers): In Aramaic (similar: Russian) there is/was no verb "to be". Jesus could not have said: Hoc EST corpus meus. But sth. like: Here, my body. Or: Voila, my body. - Not that it matters too much. (Oh, and "body" is not necessarily "body". At least not in Greek. )

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