How many communions before you

[Floyd R. Turbo]

eat a whole Jesus?

[jberryhill]

1. .

https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyaskscience/comments/2byrys/how_many_communion_wafers_you_have_to_eat_before/

Ok, so communion wafer is a dry product. So we'll be using the dry weight of a jesus, rather than the normal weight.

Jesus, by all accounts, was a skinny dude - perhaps 70 kg. The human body is roughly 65% water by weight, and we could assume a divine body would be similarly comprised - so about 24.5 kg of dry jesus. A communion wafer weighs in at about 0.25g - so you need to eat 98,000 wafers (and 45.5 liters of holy water and/or communion wine) before having consumed a whole jesus.

[csziggy]

4. How often can you take communion?

Raised as a Presbyterian, I only remember taking communion a couple of times a year. Do Catholics do it more often? If so, how often can they take communion? Is there is any limit to the number of times a day? Because if it take 98,000 communion wafers to make an entire Jesus, at one communion a day that is 268 years! If you can take communion three times a day, that cuts it to only 89.5 years.

So if you start young and are dedicated to taking communion at regular services, there is a slim chance you could consume one dry weight Jesus in a lifetime.

Ok, then we get to the communion holy water or wine. A sip is about 16 ml (https://www.quora.com/How-much-water-do-you-drink-per-sip). 45.5 liters = 45500 ml. That makes a little less than 8 years to consume the moist part of Jesus, but then if it is communion wine, it'd be a lot more fun than those dry wafers so I doubt anyone but a dedicated teatotaler would object to drinking their sips of wine for the next 81.5 years to match the wafer consumption part of Jesus.

[BlueSpot]

5. Yeah, BUT

If it works like the whole loaves and fishes thing (which it must if you multiply by the number of practicing Christians around the world), it all becomes irrelevant. Everyone eats all they can and there are still 7 bushels left over. How many Jesuses in a bushel? I bet you can get a lot of those wafers in a bushel basket.

I guess that pretty much seals it for me going to hell.

[csziggy]

6. Hmm - good point!

I didn't take into account miracles.

If I believed in hell, I'd be going there.

[Ohiogal]

2. One of those things

they neglect to teach you in your Catholic education...

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Man! I'm going to remember THAT one!

[NightWatcher]

7. Sacrilicious, and so close to Easter. It's my 2nd favorite zombie-themed holiday.

[ProudLib72]

8. Christ, I never thought about that!

Just pray you don't get the wafer containing the naughty bits!

[rurallib]

9. I was taught there was a whole Jesus in every wafer

sounded good when I was 7. Never crossed my mind again.