Cannabalism and Christianity

In my opinion, the accusation of cannibalism against the Christians is the bet result of under educated or bias members of society drill the eucharist too literally. The Charges could be explained good by assuming that Minucius Felix either misunderstood the mean and background of the eucharist or was simply twisting the center to suit his personal agenda. I see these charges are an inconclusive exaggeration or legend for the conception of dissuading people from connection the Christian faith. The actual realize that the article was written is unclear, still by its context I suspect it was in the slowly 1st century or early 2nd century, when Christianity was spreading, and was not yet legalized. The regeneration of vocabulary used in the article leads me to assume that Felix came from an educated background, and was possibly a familiar or political leader. He the likes ofly was using his present of power to try and preclude the spread of Christianity by making the innocent service of the Christian church seem like some wicked and twist sacrifice.\nFelix describes confabulation as an base rite where a critic would be presented with an infant cover in meal and aged members would cheer him on in slaying the child by and by which they would lick its blood and fall apart its limbs amongst them to be eaten [Fel87]. The ignorant and blatantly incorrect description of communion in this article leads me to believe that Felix was likely making a public service resolution to an entire community with the purpose of discouraging Christianity as a faith. Christianity had a more than trying time reaching the outlying(prenominal) communities and was less accepted the further out you went as strangers were seen as threats, so it is a speculation that Felix was in a more rural community. I too believe that in such an area the inhabitants would have get a poor level of education, and would therefore be easily convinced by Felix no matter of what he was saying callable to his cle...