Colbert: Cannibalism is not funny.

Cannibalism is alive and well in churches everywhere!

After years of indoctrination in a conservative Protestant church, the ritual of Communion–the simulated eating of Jesus' flesh and drinking his blood–was a non-event for me, although I sometimes wondered if a Martian were to drop in during the ceremony how fast he would jump back in his spaceship and jet back home!

The Catholic tradition of the Eucharist is even more bizarre for adherents who believe in the official doctrine of transubstantiation whereby once the wafer is blessed, as it touches the tongue, the molecules miraculously rearrange themselves to become the actual bodily tissue of a two-thousand-year old dead Galilean rabbi! Likewise, as one sips the blessed wine, it is instantly transformed into the actual plasma and hemoglobin of the Lord, replete with red and white corpuscles. Yuck!

Today, I happily make fun of this bizarre blood sacrifice ritual, but for the king of late night comedy, Stephen Colbert, I have crossed the line. 

Colbert, a devout Catholic, does a great job of making fun of religion. In 2015, during an interview with Father Thomas Rosica, media attaché to the Holy See Press Office, in a discussion about poking fun at religion and the Catholic Church, Colbert remarked that nothing is sacred, “I don’t think you can leave anything off the table," he said.

Mm-maybe not so much. Realizing what he just said to the Father, he began back-pedaling with, “It wouldn’t feel right for me, it wouldn’t feel good for me, it wouldn’t be obeying my own conscience, I suppose, to make jokes about the sacraments, or specifically the Eucharist…” 

My bad, Steve. I guess eating Jesus is not funny after all.