There’s a pillar. It’s just not a very big pillar.
I went to do the math and someone on reddit 7 years ago calculated 0.25 grams per wafer so about 112,000 per jesus
That seems low though.. according to google its 453 grams per pound. If he was a scrawny 130 then we’re talking more like 236,000 wafers.
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you need to include the liquid measures as well
Are you suggesting we’re eating a dried out jesus in the form of wafers and would thus wash it down separately?
don’t you? Isn’t that what the wine (grape juice) is for?
I think you’re onto something. We need to add in however much wine per communion before we convert. And I don’t know if the ratios people consume are cromulent with the body‘s composition.
Is this imperial Jesus or metric Jesus?
If you go by the average ~10 pints of blood in the human body it’d take a while at “one small sip per communion” assuming you are even in a parish that does still pass the cup around, most don’t since COVID.
And blood accounts for around ~8% of total body weight.
Maybe we need some back of the napkin math.
Wikipedia suggests that 60% of an adult male’s mass is water. (Remember fluid in cells, moist organs, etc.)
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OK…
Google tells me that the average mass of a Jewish man in first-century Levant was about 50kg
If we assume that 60% of an adult male’s mass is water, that suggests that a fully desiccated Jesus would have a mass of 20kg. At 0.25g/wafer, that would be 80k communion wafers.
An average sip of communion wine is about 25mL. If we were talking about water, 30kg of water would be 30,000mL, or 1.2k sips, but I’d think that wine would be a little denser than water, so you’d probably need considerably fewer sips of communion wine to reconstitute Jesus.
(Of course, when I was living in an Episcopal/Anglican church at college, we had a deacon who was a bit generous when setting up wine for consecration on Sunday. Since I was usually the person behind the altar who didn’t have to drive home after services, and since you really shouldn’t just pour out excess consecrated wine, I tended to have the duty of consuming much of the excess. I probably consumed more than a Jesus worth of wine during my time there.
Since I was underaged at that time, that probably usually made me the only underaged person on campus who was legally drunk on Sunday morning.)
EDIT: I’m disappointed that my now-fixed typos didn’t cause this comment to get reported to the innumeracy thread.
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That’s heavy doc
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what popped in my head was
Detachable Jesus
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