Recently was told by a Christian to look into eucharistic miracles.

These are when the bread and wine at mass literally turns into flesh and blood.

Apparently these were tested and found to come from a living heart with AB Blood. And all the sources I find list them as verified real.

I can’t find any contradicting resources.

So I’m wondering if anyone has one. Cause this just doesn’t smell right. The Bible is a self contradicting mess and prayer has already been shown not to work, but somehow God saved his real evidence for randomly trolling priests by turning wine into blood?

I don’t know about that one.

I will confess most of the resources I found covering them were Catholic in origin, which are hardly trustworthy (another reason why I’m not buying it)

Anyone here more adept at googling shit who can tell me how this is bogus?

Don’t get me wrong. I’d love for God to be real but the paranormal has an atrocious track record.

Edit: Apparently it was a bacterial fungus. Thanks for helping me figure it out.

  • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I didn’t see you link any of your sources, but I’ll bite:

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11882681/

    https://www.forensicscijournal.com/index.php/jfsr/article/view/jfsr-aid1068

    Also:

    For example, in 2006, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas gave over a Eucharist host that turned red while in a glass for the analysis by two University of Dallas biology professors who concluded it was naturally explicable, as Bishop Charles Victor Grahmann wrote that "… the object is a combination of fungal mycelia and bacterial colonies that have been incubated within the aquatic environment of the glass during the four-week period in which it was stored in the open air.

    – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharistic_miracle#Scientific_analysis_of_flesh_and_blood_miracles

    I got that off the first page of a DDG search (no AI) for: eucharistic miracles study nih

    Please do not reply. Or at least try to sound like less of a troll in any reply to me than in the rest of your posts in this thread.

    • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      I’m not sure what I did was amusing. I am asking for help debunking because I can only find catholic resources talking about it.

      I’d like to see what skeptics have to say but I can’t find anything. Hence why I’m asking for assistance.

      Why would I ask another Catholic source if my problem is I can’t find a non-catholic source?

      • actionjbone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        We are skeptics. We are telling you. It’s all bullshit. It doesn’t even come from the Catholic church, it comes from folks who make up stories to try and convince others their religion is real.

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 hour ago

            It wasn’t a false positive.

            The people running the test/making the claim didn’t know that the tests could produce positive results from Bacterial antigens, or detect DNA samples.

            If I had a test that tests for Lego bricks, and then I hold up a sack and say “look, This bag is all 2x4 bricks!”, and then point to the test as proof. Well, no. There’s more kinds of legos than just 2x4 bricks.

            That doesn’t make the test wrong. It makes the results misunderstood (or intentionally misconstrued.)