Neo-Political David

CNN is reporting today that a little girl's communion was denied by the Catholic Church due to

substitution of wafer. The eight year-old girl is allergic to wheat, so they substituted the "regulation" wheat wafer for one made of rice. Flag on the play! Woh now. That's not allowed. Just as the wine must be fermented from grapes and contain some fraction of alcohol the wafer must be made of "unleavened wheat" as occurred in the Last Supper.

All right, so, basically the church is saying that Christ wouldn't accept a communion substitute if

the person accepting said communion is allergic or a recovering alcoholic. Wow. Christ is a jerk. He'd much rather have a 8 year-old with a rare, digestive disorder increase her already high chances of getting cancer or dying or a recovering alcoholic relapse than adjust a rule slightly. I'm thinking not.

That's amazingly strict for a practice that takes the figurative, spiritual and metaphorical word of

God and turns it into literal practice. As a matter of fact, most historians speculate that the wine at the Last Supper, which communion is to signify, contained incredibly low amounts of alcohol. If this is the case, shouldn’t the church try to represent that with wine that contains equally low levels of alcohol?

The little girl’s mother wrote a letter to the Cardinal for her area saying, "This is a church rule, not

God's will, and it can easily be adjusted to meet the needs of the people, while staying true to the traditions of our faith." If a person needs to have a rule slightly adjust for the sake of health should we do it? Yes! No one should look down on someone because of an illness that they have no control over. We don't go around slapping those with tourette’s every time they have an outburst, or forcing those with a cotton allergy to wear cotton garments during church rituals.

The unable should be punished! Whatever.