{"id":69882,"date":"2011-11-04T08:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/69882\/cheese-jesus-2\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:44:53","slug":"cheese-jesus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/69882\/cheese-jesus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Cheese Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me first state&#8230;freely&#8230;that I am not an authority on anything conventionally religious&#8230;in this arena of life my kung-fu is very weak&#8230;very. Sure&#8230;sure&#8230;I was raised a Presbyterian&#8230;attended services (<em>Sometimes&#8230;when another troubled youth and myself were not screwing around downtown.<\/em>)&#8230;but&#8230;I never achieved the status to partake of Holy Communion.<\/p>\n<p>My understanding of Holy Communion is the wafer turns into the flesh of Christ and the wine into the blood of Christ&#8230;as far as I know&#8230;that&#8217;s the idea&#8230;a weirdo-ramma &#8230;mystical&#8230;magical&#8230;transformation occurs in ones body. Although not heavenly sanctioned&#8230;I tried a wafer once and I have to ask&#8230;WHY DOES JESUS HAVE TO TASTE SO FLAKY DRY AND BAD?!<\/p>\n<p>Once said troubled youth and myself were rummaging around the Pastors office minding our own business. What? Of course it was during services or we wouldn&#8217;t have been able to do it! I&#8217;m not sure what we were looking for&#8230;perhaps nick knacks&#8230;possibly something to blackmail him with&#8230;a naughty photograph or two&#8230;or maybe just to see what a Pastor keeps in his desk. In any event&#8230;what we did find&#8230;was a bag of those Holy Communion wafers! GOLD! WE HIT FUCKING GOLD! So in our impish curiosity&#8230;we each popped one in our mouths&#8230;*<em>crunch&#8230;crunch<\/em>*.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>WHAT&#8230;THE&#8230;FUCK! THTALE! THTAAAALE!! HELP UTH JETHUTH&#8230;HELP UTH JETHUTH!<\/em>&#8221; We were immediately smitten to the ground where we clawed at out mouths and gagged&#8230;&#8221;<em>WE&#8217;RE THORRY JETHUTH&#8230;WE&#8217;RE THORRY&#8230;THOP THMITTING UTH&#8230;PLEATHE!<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It was horrible! What do they make those wafers out of? Are they 2,000 plus years old? Is there a sacred vault somewhere housing these things?! They were clinging and sticking to the insides of our mouths! &#8220;<em>DIRTY THOCKTH&#8230;DIRTY THOCKTH!<\/em>&#8220;. In a panic we quickly searched for the wine&#8230;water&#8230;soda&#8230;anything to wash those crumbling dusty particles down&#8230;or better yet&#8230;out of our mouths! Finding nothing we fled from the office in a frantic search for liquids!<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230;see&#8230;this is what I don&#8217;t understand. Why&#8230;when it&#8217;s going to magically change in ones body anyway&#8230;would it have to be something that tasted so heinous?! Why not Domino&#8217;s pizza bits? Pizza Hut? Marcos? Is the horrible texture and taste somehow part of a &#8220;Ritual of Suffering&#8221;? Why? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHY?! Would it not be sacrilegious to make Jesus taste bad? Should not Jesus taste good? And what about those that don&#8217;t like wine&#8230;or&#8230;are recovering Alcoholics?<\/p>\n<p>Why should Holy Communion be a traumatic culinary experience? Why not make it an enjoyable one&#8230;*<em>MMmmmmMmmm&#8230;Dominos pizza bits and a shot of Pepsi&#8230;MMMmmMmmm.<\/em>*&#8230;would not Jesus want you to enjoy eating His body and drinking His blood (<em>And people think my vampire fixation is weird<\/em>)? I think He would. Red cups for regular&#8230;blue cups for diet&#8230;it&#8217;s easy!<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Three-Cheese-Jesus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69900\" title=\"Three Cheese Jesus\" src=\"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Three-Cheese-Jesus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Three-Cheese-Jesus.jpg 400w, https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Three-Cheese-Jesus-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Three-Cheese-Jesus-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why should Holy Communion be a traumatic culinary experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,14,6,10,840,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-family","category-friendburst","category-life","category-religion-2","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116558,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69882\/revisions\/116558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}