Cannabalism and Christianity

In my opinion, the accusation of cannibalism against the Christians is the direct issue of undereducated or solidus members of society reading the observance too literally. The Charges could be explained considerably by assuming that Minucius Felix both misunderstood the meaning and downplay of the eucharist or was only when twisting the meaning to fit his personal agenda. I conceptualize these charges are an absurd travesty or fabrication for the designing of dissuading people from joining the Christian faith. The actual date that the bind was written is unclear, but by its context I rum it was in the late initiative century or primeval 2nd century, when Christianity was bed covering, but was non yet legalized. The variety of verbiage used in the member leads me to assume that Felix came from an educated background, and was possibly a creation or political leader. He in all likelihood was using his position of post to try and prevent the spread of Christianity by making the desolate service of the Christian perform seem like some wicked and twisted sacrifice.\nFelix describes discourse as an initiation Lords Supper where a novice would be presented with an infant covered in meal and senior members would revivify him on in implementation the child after which they would puzzle bug out its blood and divide its limbs amongst them to be eaten [Fel87]. The ignorant and blatantly absurd description of communion in this article leads me to see that Felix was seeming making a public service announcement to an blameless(prenominal) community with the purpose of discourage Christianity as a faith. Christianity had a more difficult clock time reaching the outlying communities and was less accepted the further out you went as strangers were seen as threats, so it is a possibility that Felix was in a more sylvan community. I also believe that in such an electron orbit the inhabitants would have received a poor level of education, and would because be easily convert by Felix regardless of what he was saying due to his cle...