Cannabalism and Christianity

In my opinion, the accusation of cannibalism against the Christians is the direct resolvent of undereducated or prepossess members of society reading the ceremony too literally. The Charges could be explained comfortably by assuming that Minucius Felix both misunderstood the meaning and primer coat of the eucharist or was just twisting the meaning to movement his personal agenda. I look at these charges are an absurd caricature or fabrication for the propose of dissuading people from joining the Christian faith. The actual date that the bind was written is unclear, but by its context I odd it was in the late maiden century or early(a) 2nd century, when Christianity was disperseing, but was non yet legalized. The variety of verbiage used in the name leads me to assume that Felix came from an educated background, and was mayhap a human race or political leader. He likely was using his position of power to try and prevent the spread of Christianity by making the exculpated service of the Christian church service seem like somewhat wicked and twisted sacrifice.\nFelix describes conference as an initiation ritual where a novice would be presented with an infant covered in meal and senior members would jolly up him on in off the child after which they would thresh its blood and divide its limbs amongst them to be eaten [Fel87]. The ignorant and blatantly nonsensical description of communion in this article leads me to believe that Felix was likely making a public service announcement to an total community with the purpose of disapprove Christianity as a faith. Christianity had a more difficult measure reaching the knocked out(p)lying communities and was little accepted the further out you went as strangers were seen as threats, so it is a possibility that Felix was in a more bucolic community. I also believe that in such an field of operation the inhabitants would have received a poor level of education, and would so be easily convinced(p) by Felix regardless of what he was saying due to his cle...