Yes, the priest does it during mass.

Stop making them out of sodium.

Technically the Church teaches that the form of the wafer is unchanged, but that it has in substance (i.e., in underlying truth) become the body of Christ. So, I guess people with celiac disease are allergic to two things — gluten AND Jesus.

It's fine. They're just crackers until the priest consecrates them.

In the Catholic faith, no, the wafer becomes entirely flesh. (Although of course you're correct that most Catholics don't believe this, even though it's one of if not the most important doctrinal differentiation between themselves and Protestants.)

Yeah, they used to fight wars over this. But now we have Netflix, and the Churches are happy to indulge any shit anybody wants to believe so long as they keep filling the plate.

It hasn't happened since 1950.

I know there was a significant debate in canon sources for quite some times if Mary remained a virgin throughout her life, or if she engaged in physical relations with her husband after the birth of Jesus. I think it was ultimately decided that she died a virgin.

Ehn. That's pretty sympathetic.

It's fine as long as they haven't been consecrated. After that, though? You'd definitely burn for that one.

I've never lived there, but I used to find myself in the City fairly often, and that matches my experience. New Yorkers have these aggressive speech patterns, so you think they're jerks. But they're not, they're very friendly and helpful, they just sound different than other friendly people you've met elsewhere.

He's also wrong about space programs.

You mean besides the one that's been up there for almost 20 years now?

Sorry, that was kind of my fault.

Oh, was the computer company pronounced "Wong" as well?

I wonder if they're my wife's cousins. I assume they must be; how many Wangs could there be in China?

It destabilized and suborned the most powerful country in the world, its only nuclear competitor. I'd say they're still doing a pretty good job with geopolitical mayhem, they're just more efficient this time.

She's great in Eurotrip.

I agree it's probably their best picture, although I think of it very differently than you, as a sympathetic to the protagonist retelling of Job (except that unlike him, Larry fails the cruel and arbitrary tests to which he is put).

He was married for several years.