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Inappropriate thought of the day: my theatre company just put on a play which had a play-within-a-play featuring a Nativity pageant. They used the term "the first Christmas", which okay, birth of Christ, gotcha. I really hope it wasn't actually the first Christ's Mass, though. In fact, I hope there weren't any masses at which Jesus was actually present*. The whole "eating the flesh and drinking the blood" bit suddenly takes on a much creepier aspect if there's a newborn baby rather than representative crackers and wine.

Ewwww.

*Anyone know when that particular tradition became part of Christian masses? I'm using the term Christian here because I'm pretty sure it was before the splitting into various different sects.
*Edit: Why am I asking, I have the world's greatest non-human research tool available. To google!
*Edit the second: Okay. As per the Bible, it dates to the Last Supper, when Jesus gave people bread and wine himself, and said unto them, "Bite me."