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For Kant, what he calls the Christian ceremony of Communion
{ 1 } - takes one beyond selfishness to the idea of a moral community.
{ 2 } - brings grace through the action of the clergy.
{ 3 } - is like marriage, a sacrament in which the spouses are the ministers of grace to each other.
{ 4 } - is a means of grace.
{ 5 } - unites the one who partakes with God in the union of the noumenal and phenomenal.
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For Kant, what he calls the Christian ceremony of Communion
{ 1 } - takes one beyond selfishness to the idea of a moral community.
{ 2 } - brings grace through the action of the clergy.
{ 3 } - is like marriage, a sacrament in which the spouses are the ministers of grace to each other.
{ 4 } - is a means of grace.
{ 5 } - unites the one who partakes with God in the union of the noumenal and phenomenal.
He thinks it is a good means of enlivening a community to the moral disposition of brotherly love which it represents.
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For Kant, what he calls the Christian ceremony of Communion
{ 1 } - takes one beyond selfishness to the idea of a moral community.
{ 2 } - brings grace through the action of the clergy.
{ 3 } - is like marriage, a sacrament in which the spouses are the ministers of grace to each other.
{ 4 } - is a means of grace.
{ 5 } - unites the one who partakes with God in the union of the noumenal and phenomenal.
This would be clericalism, the dominion of the clergy over men's hearts, usurped by dint of arrogating to themselves the prestige attached to exclusive possession of means of grace.
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For Kant, what he calls the Christian ceremony of Communion
{ 1 } - takes one beyond selfishness to the idea of a moral community.
{ 2 } - brings grace through the action of the clergy.
{ 3 } - is like marriage, a sacrament in which the spouses are the ministers of grace to each other.
{ 4 } - is a means of grace.
{ 5 } - unites the one who partakes with God in the union of the noumenal and phenomenal.
For Kant, it seems that marriage is not so much a presence of God in the other as a type of property rights: 'the union of two persons of different sexes for lifelong possession of each other's sexual attributes' "a contract for the mutual use of the sexual organs."
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For Kant, what he calls the Christian ceremony of Communion
{ 1 } - takes one beyond selfishness to the idea of a moral community.
{ 2 } - brings grace through the action of the clergy.
{ 3 } - is like marriage, a sacrament in which the spouses are the ministers of grace to each other.
{ 4 } - is a means of grace.
{ 5 } - unites the one who partakes with God in the union of the noumenal and phenomenal.
He thinks this is a religious illusion which can do naught but work counter to the spirit of religion.
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For Kant, what he calls the Christian ceremony of Communion
{ 1 } - takes one beyond selfishness to the idea of a moral community.
{ 2 } - brings grace through the action of the clergy.
{ 3 } - is like marriage, a sacrament in which the spouses are the ministers of grace to each other.
{ 4 } - is a means of grace.
{ 5 } - unites the one who partakes with God in the union of the noumenal and phenomenal.
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