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Oh, for the love of God...

You know, many Catholics seem to be afraid that the religion isn't attracting younger followers, and drifting away from the church.

Well, considering it openly wants about 52% of the population to take on subserviant, slave-like roles, that could be an issue.

Also, it apparently is out to kill its newest members.

For those of you who haven't heard about this story, or didn't click the link above, the church is invalidating a young girl's first communion ceremony, because, for that ceremony, she was given a rice wafer instead of a wheat one. Why not just give her the wheat one then, you ask? Why, because she's highly allergic to wheat, and the consumption of such a product could be fatal. Even after explaining this to the clergy, why this substitution must be made, they've refused to acknowledge the girl's reception of the sacrament, saying she must have a wafer with at least some wheat in it.

Honestly! For Christ's sake, just let her eat the goddamn rice wafer! (going to hell.....now.) I mean, unless they're trying to prove a point. See, in the Catholic school I attended, the consecration of the wafers into the eucharist was supposed to be an actual change of the wafers into the body of christ. What they should do is run her through the communion, starting with all-wheat wafers. Upon the consecration, they should transform completely into the body of christ, who, since he hadn't eaten at the time, would have a wheat-free blood system. If the girl is able to accept the wafer, then yay! If she goes into immediate convulsions, we know this entire religious set-up is a fraud, and should never listen to these people again.

Alternately, since the priest is supposed to be our liason with god and jesus, maybe stripping a piece of his flesh and giving her that for communion would be okay, as long as he hasn't eaten any wheat products.

A third option, of course, is to give her the frickin' rice wafer and validate that. Come on, people.