I guess the point is that even while you don't believe it matters, there are people who do consider there to be special rules that apply to "consecrated spaces". The writer above was trying to reassure them that he didn't break those rules.
From what you've commented above, you don't believe in transubstantiation, but you'd be in a world of trouble if you did almost anything to a consecrated host in a Catholic church, because they do. Hence a girl got suspended in my school for taking communion, concealing it, and throwing it in a bin. Doesn't make much sense unless you realise that to them it was a bit of God.
In the same vein, all the churches in Italy which are touristy have dress codes and some have people there to shush you if you're too loud. That felt very weird when we were in the Pantheon, which is an intact Roman temple that was made into a church, but when in Rome(an Catholic Churches)....
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Date: 2012-06-14 06:24 am (UTC)From:From what you've commented above, you don't believe in transubstantiation, but you'd be in a world of trouble if you did almost anything to a consecrated host in a Catholic church, because they do. Hence a girl got suspended in my school for taking communion, concealing it, and throwing it in a bin. Doesn't make much sense unless you realise that to them it was a bit of God.
In the same vein, all the churches in Italy which are touristy have dress codes and some have people there to shush you if you're too loud. That felt very weird when we were in the Pantheon, which is an intact Roman temple that was made into a church, but when in Rome(an Catholic Churches)....