Culturally I was born in it, but I am an curious outsider. Dunno that much about religion, but I know stories.

The context in the story is this… Jesus knew he had been betrayed by Judah, so during the last souper he kind of announced his death to the others by symbolizing his flesh and his blood in the wine and the bread. Sort of saying that once gone he would continue to live in them. Which he did, through the stories they told.

So the bread and wine ritual is supposed to serve a double purpose, be forgiving (even if the traitor who causes your own death) and accept the teachings of the Christ, the story of Jesus. What it really does is that it creates a moment of communion, display to others that like them you have accepted the story as central to your life.

I’m an autist. I can understand these things, why they are done, but they still seem absurd to me.