Cannabalism and Christianity

In my opinion, the flush of cannibalism against the Christians is the direct result of undereducated or bias members of party reading the observance alike literally. The Charges could be explained easily by assuming that Minucius Felix either misconceive the meaning and background of the eucharist or was simply wind the meaning to suit his personal agenda. I believe these charges are an absurd exaggeration or fabrication for the purpose of dissuading passel from joining the Christian faith. The genuine date that the clause was scripted is unclear, but by its place setting I suspect it was in the late 1st cytosine or early second century, when Christianity was spreading, but was not barely legalized. The variety of vocabulary employ in the article leads me to contain that Felix came from an educated background, and was possibly a public or political leader. He likely was utilize his position of power to exertion and prevent the spread of Christianity by make the innoc ent assistance of the Christian church count like some awful and twisted sacrifice.\nFelix describes communion as an initiation rite where a novice would be presented with an infant covered in meal and senior members would cheer him on in slaying the fry after which they would lick its line of descent and divide its limbs amongst them to be eaten [Fel87]. The insensible and blatantly incorrect exposition of communion in this article leads me to believe that Felix was likely making a public process announcement to an entire confederation with the purpose of discouraging Christianity as a faith. Christianity had a much difficult time reaching the outlying communities and was less recognized the further out you went as strangers were seen as threats, so it is a possibility that Felix was in a more rural community. I also believe that in such an area the inhabitants would mother received a scant(p) level of education, and would therefore be easily convinced by Felix regar dless of what he was apothegm due to his cle...