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  1. RamblinDude says

    Boy, are you gonna get e-mail…

    Actually, I think it would have had more impact, and be more interesting and thought provoking, if they weren’t zombies–just regular humans.

  2. 386sx says

    Actually, I think it would have had more impact, and be more interesting and thought provoking, if they weren’t zombies–just regular humans.

    True, but not everybody believes that god commanded them to take communion. However, the one thing that they all do agree on is that their god ascended back up into the heavens like a birdie on wings, be they fundamentalists or be they moderates. Therefore that part of the story must be true. That’s just basic logic. Fly birdie fly!!

  3. says

    Completely unrelated, but I’d love to read an informed opinion on Craig Venter’s attempt to patent his method of “creating an organism”. I don’t mean in any religious sense (which I saw you commented on), but rather the limits of ownership by individuals or corporations. I’m a complete atheist, but I have a serious problem with patents and copyrights, especially insofar as they pertain to processes. I’d love to know your opinion. Just curious.

  4. says

    Completely unrelated, but I’d love to read an informed opinion on Craig Venter’s attempt to patent his method of “creating an organism”. I don’t mean in any religious sense (which I saw you commented on), but rather the limits of ownership by individuals or corporations. I’m a complete atheist, but I have a serious problem with patents and copyrights, especially insofar as they pertain to processes. I’d love to know your opinion. Just curious.

  5. LBraschi says

    Re #8

    Not all that metaphorically; christian doctrine has it that the host somehow ‘transubtantiates’ into the body of christ– it becomes the body itself.

    What a crazed bad of cannibal nutters

  6. LBraschi says

    And on a macabre note, that picture is what a biblical literalist may came off when reading about ‘eating the body of christ’

  7. Janine says

    I hope they drained Jesus of his blood so that they may drink of it.

    I so love this picture.

  8. JD says

    This just shows how gullible Jesus is. I for one would never accept a dinner invite from a zombie.

  9. Magnus says

    Hmmm, this explains how he was able to get up and running a few days after the crucifixion.

    Zombie Jesus!

  10. Dave Godfrey says

    And on the Third Day Jesus rose from the dead and said unto His disciples “Braaiiins”.

  11. Michael Kremer says

    PZ has liturgical sense! Today is the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (also known as Corpus Christi).

    And yes, I did take communion today. But no, we Catholics don’t think we do *that* when we take communion, even though we do think that we partake of the body and blood of Christ. A better model might be breastfeeding — in which one person sustains another out of her own substance. (This analogy was drawn by the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich.)

    I leave you with a link to a poem by George Herbert on the theme of Love: http://www.englishverse.com/poems/love

  12. David Marjanović says

    Not all that metaphorically; christian doctrine has it that the host somehow ‘transub[s]tantiates’ into the body of christ– it becomes the body itself.

    Depends on the denomination. AFAIK Calvinists consider it symbolic, for example.

  13. David Marjanović says

    Not all that metaphorically; christian doctrine has it that the host somehow ‘transub[s]tantiates’ into the body of christ– it becomes the body itself.

    Depends on the denomination. AFAIK Calvinists consider it symbolic, for example.

  14. says

    Last year I attended a friend’s niece’s communion at a Catholic church. The sermon included mention of “taking and drinking …blood”. This probably inspired a future generation of Goth/vampire children on that day.

  15. says

    As tempting as it may be to make atheistic jokes about cannibalism and communion, I’ve yet to meet a believer who got any zombie vibes from the mass. What I have sometimes encountered. at least in old books are legends about the host that remind you of stories about human thumbs found in pickle jars.

  16. denise says

    Yay! I play a zombie game on-line and our mob is The Pastafarian Brotherhood, this pleases me to no end. I am going to go share it with them. Thanks!

  17. bPer says

    Oh, great. Now I can’t get “Sweet zombie Jesus” out of my head. And no, it’s not “good news, everyone”. Thanks, guys.

  18. Kseniya says

    I take this as proof-positive that zombies wouldn’t have touched a Chocolate Jesus.

  19. says

    Hmmm…I think the one biting his arm is a female!

    the further question is, is she sexually aroused while doing so?

    yeah, i know, some killjoy will opine zombies or ghouls or whatever don’t get sexually aroused.

    okay, how do you know?

  20. Sengkelat says

    I’ve long held that Christianity is a zombie religion. Christ died, but rose from the grave. He wants you to eat his blood and flesh (thus infecting you with zombieism). Doing so gets you “everlasting life.”

    It all fits.

  21. CortxVortx says

    Beware the Vampire Jesus! He gave his blood for you — now he wants it back!

    — CV