Couple of new blog posts:

* xkcd-for-my-daughter: a list of XKCD strips, which were the
  most relevant for me.
* enemies-to-friends: most “Enemies to friends” stories are just
  incredibly stupid.
* hinny_dump: just a disorganized dump of Hinny stories
* huna_drinny: one of plot bunnies, which I would like to read
  fulfilled, but I certainly cannot do so myself.
* james-potter-werewolf-incident: it is just impossible of events
  happened how they are described in canon, JKR had to make a
  mistake in ordering those two sub-stories, otherwise James
  Potter would be quite a monster.
* lords-supper-and-magic: I have never understood why the idea of
  magic should be against the Christian faith.

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+Lord’s Supper and Harry Potter
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+:date: 2024-05-17T16:35:58
+:category: literature
+:tags: harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit, theology
+
+(my comment on the reddit thread `The Pope loves magic,
+actually`_ by callmesalticidae_)
+
+Foremost, I don’t want to make it into a Catholic/Protestant
+thing. I know Catholics who agree with me in saying that the
+whole transubstantiation controversy is basically a disaster
+caused by the Scholastic attempt to squeeze everything into a
+rational framework.  Scholasticism was in many aspects an Alpha
+version of the Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, and it
+hit the similar problems.
+
+Here they tried to fit the round peg of the God’s mystery to the
+square hole of the Aristotelian logical framework of reason,
+and it really never worked well. Then of course, because the
+Catholic Church never makes a mistake, instead of admitting the
+idea was a bit foolish they doubled down on it and made it into
+`the shibboleth of the true faith`_, which made the whole thing
+even worse. Then the Reformation came and who were just two sides
+in a discussion were now enemies, and so Reformers add `their own
+junk`_.
+
+I do like the formulation of the seventeenth century bishop of
+Czech brethren Jan Ámos Komenský (Comenius) from his confession_
+of faith that Jesus told us to meet with him in the bread and
+wine and not to study it or trying to understand it.
+
+Concerning Harry Potter and transfiguration. I really don’t know
+where it came from that the Christian faith could be somehow put
+in jeopardy by the discovery that changing of water into wine
+(which is the best I can understand could transfiguration do) is
+possible by magic. Firstly, it is the Wedding at Cana not the
+Last Supper, and for the second, I don’t think even the most
+strict extreme Roman Catholic would ever argue that even the
+Consecrated Host would be by scientific method distinguishable
+from any other regular bread (not that he would do any scientific
+investigation of the Sacred Host for reverence to it).  Spiritual
+change of bread and wine into The Glorious Presence of the Lord
+Jesus is something which I don’t think even Professor McGonagall
+claim to do (who is in my headcanon a strict Presbyterian and a
+relative of Helen Burns from “Jane Eyre”).
+
+So, yes, after arguing about it for myself, I don’t think
+Transfiguration has any effect on anything, be it the Protestant
+Lord’s Supper or the Catholic Eucharist.
+
+.. _`The Pope loves magic, actually`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/1ctqbkn/the_pope_loves_magic_actually/
+
+.. _callmesalticidae:
+    https://www.reddit.com/user/callmesalticidae
+
+
+.. _`the shibboleth of the true faith`:
+    https://youtu.be/fqkaBEWPH18
+
+.. _`their own junk`:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_Catechism#Lord's_Day_30
+
+.. _confession:
+    https://kaplice.evangnet.cz/HTMS/kb.html