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by swat535 386 days ago
> Catholics would be saying it's the literal body of Christ. And they they dropped it to the floor and went 'well, I can't eat that'

When Catholics say this, they mean Transubstantiation.

As in, it retains the accidents (physical/observable properties) of bread and wine, but its substance (what it is) does literally become the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ.

So it might look, feel, and taste like bread and wine, but it is in fact the body of Christ.

So, kind of both..