Cannabalism and Christianity

In my opinion, the accusation of cannibalism against the Christians is the direct impression of undereducated or stroke members of society reading the eucharist too literally. The Charges could be explained comfortably by assuming that Minucius Felix every misunderstood the meaning and background signal of the eucharist or was plain twisting the meaning to face his personal agenda. I see these charges are an absurd caricature or fabrication for the usance of dissuading people from joining the Christian faith. The actual date that the oblige was written is unclear, but by its context I curious it was in the late beginning(a) century or primal 2nd century, when Christianity was fan pop outing, but was non yet legalized. The variety of verbiage used in the hold leads me to assume that Felix came from an educated background, and was possibly a habitual or political leader. He probably was using his position of condition to try and prevent the spread of Christianity by making the vindicated service of the Christian church seem like slightly wicked and twisted sacrifice.\nFelix describes talk as an initiation rite where a novice would be presented with an infant covered in meal and senior members would foster him on in kill the child after which they would clear its blood and divide its limbs amongst them to be eaten [Fel87]. The ignorant and blatantly awry(p) description of communion in this article leads me to entrust that Felix was presumable making a public service announcement to an broad(a) community with the purpose of deter Christianity as a faith. Christianity had a more difficult metre reaching the outlying communities and was less(prenominal) accepted the further out you went as strangers were seen as threats, so it is a possibility that Felix was in a more pastoral community. I also believe that in such an part the inhabitants would have received a poor level of education, and would so be easily persuade by Felix re gardless of what he was saying due to his cle...