P.Z. Myers in the news (the catholic church communion wafer incident)

Doesn't this make all catholics cannibals?
Is cannibalism legal in the US?
Would you advocate the rights of any other religion that eats bodies?Isn't all of this very very very silly indeed?

WTF are you on? If these crackers are suposedly the actual (as opposed to just representing) body of Christ and people are eating them does that not make them cannibals?That was the question. What is the answer?

How come? Because the crackers are obviously not really the body of Christ....?

So it is the actual body of Christ when someone steals a cracker...
But it is also very much not the body of Christ in terms of cannibalism with regard to Catholics taking communion.Is it not obvious this stuff is being made up as we go along?Frankly I cannot think of a better example of religious opportunism, hypocrisy and evident delusional insanity than the example in question. Namely that the crackers in question are considered to be the actual body of Christ in one situation whilst being rationalised as very much not the actual body of Christ when required otherwise.When will this sort of lunacy end?

So the crackers are not the actual body of Christ even as far as Catholics are concerned?
They just contain the spirit of Christ?
So those taking communion are eating physical crackers that contain the spirit of Christ?
Is that right?It seems more mad the more I am told about this.

Are human bodies also spiritual or only physical?
Can I eat the body of a fellow human being but claim that I am only eating them in a spiritual, as opposed to a canibalistic, sense?Or is this privelige reserved for Jesus?

Straggler writes Mr Jack writes I do find the idea that crackers are somehow able to be the body (either spiritual or physical) of Christ quite absurd but I don't think my question was as trivially silly as you have taken it to be. In an admittedly faecetious manner I am asking if the logic of the communion wafers is consistent.
If the wafer of communion is considered to be the actual body of Christ but only in a spiritual sense then is that the 'actual' body in any way that means anything at all?Where is the division between physical and spiritual? Why is it Ok to eat the spiritual yet abhorrant or offensive to suggest eating the physical? Why does anybody's 'body' have to be eaten by anybody else at all? Does the eating of bodies apply only to Jesus or do we all have the opportunity to be eaten? And, as already asked, if a cracker can be considered the spiritual body can a real physical human body be transmuted such that it too is a spiritual body?It seems inconsistent to me.Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.