Difficultas Potentatis Atomicae in Civitatibus Confoederatis Americae

Amici, Americani, et Compatriotae,

Nuclear energy has the potential of being the one energy source that doesn't dump toxic refuse to the environment, that has a fuel supply which can last billions of people tens of thousands of years, and that has the lowest mortality rate of any other form of power generation (including wind and solar power). Yet it currently faces a combination of strangulating regulations, low natural gas prices and rabid anti-nuclear activism. Nuclear power isn't successful against these forces because of the following reasons:

• The NRC has been stacked with anti-nuclear activists under the previous Administration
• The NRC has focused its regulations solely on light water reactors without concern for advanced non-light water reactors
• There is a lack of a regulatory playing field between nuclear and the rest of the industry; if fossil fuel were held to the same standard as nuclear - do not release your pollution into the environment - then nuclear would win hands down.
• Solar and wind have unfairly benefited from government handouts by the previous Administration to the almost complete exclusion of nuclear being recognized as so-called "green" energy.
• Every solar and wind plant is a natural gas facility required as spinning reserve for 70% of the time renewable energy does not generate power; this results in natural gas providers financing renewable energy while lobbying Congress to knee-cap nuclear.
• Utilities operating nuclear power plants also operate coal, oil and gas plants; so their interests are divided - as long as they have electricity to sell, it matters little the source.
• Utility executives focus on next quarter's profit for the shareholder instead of on what the country needs in the next 20 years - their motivation is not the national interest but the pecuniary interests of their financiers.
• NSSS company executives focus on golden parachutes for themselves instead of on actually building a new facility; they do the minimum necessary for initial NRC approval and then skim wherever they can.
• The new work force available for utilities and NSSS companies is comprised of millennials who disrespect adherence to regulations, standards and procedures; and who lack an effective work ethic.
• Liberal progressive feminist politicians are reflexively anti-nuclear, cow-towing to the fears of an ignorant, indolent and decadent population; they enact legislation and regulations, and they initiate programs and policies to shut down nuclear power plants and erect useless worthless solar and wind which always necessitate spinning natural gas reserve.

The worst problem however is the last one: The safe use of nuclear power requires regulatory adherence; but a nation of idolaters, adulterers, fornicators, sodomites, murderers and thieves who routinely defy  God's Law will always be incapable of following man's law. Often I read or hear the cry that if we just give people health, wealth and prosperity, then their behavior will change and they will become moral and righteous, that the reason for their evil is because necessities of life are withheld from them. However, that is NEVER the case. A people who murder unborn babies and who cannot distinguish that a male sex organ does not go into a male oral or anal orifice can never be trusted with the fires of creation. Repentance and conversion, righteousness and holiness come BEFORE health, wealth and prosperity. Think about it: do you want a murderer of innocent babies or a sexual pervert operating a nuclear power plant? Or designing one?

Furthermore, the greater the number of free handouts for such people, the greater the addiction to largess from the public treasury and the less the motivation to repent. The sin in man's heart must first be removed before God will bless man. A wicked man cannot be trust with nuclear energy. And such wickedness like abortion or sodomy is indicative of other wickedness like lying and stealing. Do you want a liar or a thief operating a nuclear power plant? Because that's what baby murderers and sodomites are.

So what will happen? We will do what our Cro-magnon ancestors did before us in the caves of France and Germany 45 thousand years ago: we will burn wood, straw, hay; mineral rock (coal), mineral slime (oil) and mineral gas (methane); because that's all we know how to do. We will choke on our carbon fumes because we cannot manage the strong nuclear force because we cannot obey the man-made regulations to manage it safely. And we cannot obey the man-made regulations to manage the strong nuclear force safely because we cannot obey God's Law to manage our personal behavior morally. A people who, unable to use the reason of the brains that God gave them, succumb to the lust of the flesh - every titillation of the genitals, every appetite of the stomach - cannot use that same reason for the safe operation of nuclear power plants. We fully merit what we have sown for ourselves.

Prex Domini in Linguis Latinis et Graecis

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

The following is a literal translation of the Lord's Prayer from Matthew chapter 16. This is done in rebuttal against the wrongful suggestion by Pope Francis that "et ne nos inducas in tentationem" (and lead us not into temptation) ought to be rendered as "et ne cadamus in tentationem" (and let us not fall into temptation).

LINGUA LATINA - LATIN

9b Pater noster, qui es in caelis,
Our Father, who art in the heavens

Sanctificetur nomen tuum,
May thy name be hollowed,

10 Adveniat regnum tuum,
May thy kingdom come (arrive),

Fiat voluntas tua,
May thy will (desire, purpose, wish, favor) be done (become, happen, take place),

Sicut in caelo, et in terra.
Just as in heaven, and in earth.

11 Panem nostrum supersubstantialem (quoditianum) da nobis hodie;
Give to us today our life-sustaining (daily, everyday, usual) bread;

12 Et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
And forgive (send away, scatter, dismiss) our debts (dues, duties)

Sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;
Just as we forgive (send away, scatter, dismiss) our debtors

13 Et ne inducas nos in tentationem,
And may you not lead us into temptation (trial),

Sed libera nos a Malo.
But free (acquit, absolve, liberate, release) us from Evil (Bad, Wicked)

quia tuum est regnum; et potentia et gloria; in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
For yours in the kingdom, and power and glory, into the ages of ages. Amen,

LINGUA GRAECA - GREEK

9b πατερ ημων ο εν τοις ουρανοις αγιασθητω το ονομα σου
Father of us who [is] in the heavens hallowed be the name of you

10 λθετω η βασιλεια σου;
Let come the kingdom of you;

γενηθητω το θελημα σου
Let be done the will of you

ως εν ουρανω και επι της γης
As in heaven, [so] also upon earth.

11 τον αρτον ημων τον επιουσιον δος ημιν σημερον
The bread of us daily give us today

12 και αφες ημιν τα οφειληματα ημων
And forgive us the debts of us

ως και ημεις αφιεμεν τοις οφειλεταις ημων
As also we forgive the debtors of us

13 και μη εισενεγκης ημας εις πειρασμον
And not lead us into temptation (trial)

αλλα ρυσαι ημας απο του πονηρου
But deliver us from the evil.

οτι σου εστιν η βασιλεια και η δυναμις και η δοξα εις τους αιωνας αμην
For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory for the ages Amen.

Michael Shellenberger pro Gubernatore in Civitate Californiae

Michael Shellenberg

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

Michael Shellenberger is running as an Independent Candidate for Governor in the State of California on a primarily (almost exclusively) pro-nuclear power platform. There is an article at Atomic Insights on this:

Michael Shellenberger explains why he is running for governor of California – Part 3
That of course is laudable. But what is NOT mentioned is his position on the murder of pre-born babies in the womb and the sanctification of the sterile putrid filth of homosexual unions. No people who defy God's moral law by murdering pre-born babies and promoting sodomy and lesbianism can possibly have the virtue needed to obey man's regulations in the safe use of nuclear energy. Basically, if you cannot control what you do with your genitals - if you just have to titillate them and then abandon your responsibility for the consequences of said titillation - then you cannot by definition be trusted with the fires of creation which are nuclear energy.

Now Shellenberger's views on these more important issues - the intrinsic right to life from conception onward and the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman - are not readily apparent in publicly available information to date. Indeed, his position on most other issues - illegal immigration, socialist health care, etc. - is unstated. However, he is associated with the usual liberal progressive feminist institutions such as Third Way, Breakthrough Institute and Generation Atomic, and liberal progressive feminism openly advocates and promotes evil. Therefore, for all of Michael Shellenberger's advocacy of safe, clean, economical nuclear energy, if he supports the murder of unborn babies and the sanctification of homosexual unions, then he is as wicked and as depraved as the current Governor, Jerry Brown, and he must be defeated, because moral issues always and everywhere trump prosperity issues. God Almighty is very clear about this:

2nd Chronicles 7:14 - And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.

Matthew 6:33 - Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Pater Noster

Pope Francis
The Heretic from Argenina

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

I tried posting the following analysis at The American Catholic, but it had too many hyperlinks to references to get through automatic moderation. It will probably appear pretty soon. Nevertheless, it was written in response to a post by Dr. Bob Kurland entitled, "PopeWatch: Pope Francis Wants to Change 'The Lord’s Prayer.'"Here is the essential text of my response:

“The phrase ‘do not let us fall into temptation,’ which the Catholic Church in France has previously decided to use, would be a more appropriate alternative, Francis said.”

My little research is consistent with what another commenter pointed out (who may correct me if I err). Neither the Greek nor the Latin says, “Do not let us fall into temptation.” Analysis is below.

REFERENCES

Parsed Greek New Testament:

http://www.greekbible.com/index.php

Strong’s dictionary:

http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html

Blue Letter Bible parsed with Strong’s numbers hyperlinked to individual Greek words:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/

William Whittaker’s Words

http://archives.nd.edu/words.html

Nova Vulgata Bibliorum Sacrorum

http://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/nova-vulgata_index_lt.html

ANALYSIS

Matthew 6:13 is here:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/mat/6/1/ss1/s_935001

καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν
KJV and Douay-Rheims: And lead us not into temptation
Literal: And may you not lead us into temptation

The verb εἰσφέρω,v \{ice-fer'-o} is written in the 2nd person, active tense, aorist voice, subjunctive mood singular, singular person. It means:

1) to bring into, in or to 2) to lead into

The noun πειρασμός,n \{pi-ras-mos'} is written in the accusative case, singular person, masculine gender. It means:

1) an experiment, attempt, trial, proving 1a) trial, proving: the trial made of you by my bodily condition, since condition served as to test the love of the Galatians toward Paul (Gal. 4:14) 1b) the trial of man's fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy 1b1) an enticement to sin, temptation, whether arising from the desires or from the outward circumstances 1b2) an internal temptation to sin 1b2a) of the temptation by which the devil sought to divert Jesus the Messiah from his divine errand 1b3) of the condition of things, or a mental state, by which we are enticed to sin, or to a lapse from the faith and holiness 1b4) adversity, affliction, trouble: sent by God and serving to test or prove one's character, faith, holiness 1c) temptation (i.e. trial) of God by men 1c1) rebellion against God, by which his power and justice are, as it were, put to the proof and challenged to show themselves

The Latin Nova Vulgata reads as follows:

et ne inducas nos in tentationem

Induco is written in the 2nd person active subjective present tense. It means:

lead in, bring in (performers); induce, influence; introduce

Tentationem is 3rd declension and written in the accusative case, singular person, feminine. It means:

temptation; trial

A literal reading of “et ne inducas nos in tentationem” is this:

And may you not lead us into temptation

A reading like this, “let us not fall into temptation,” would look like this:

Et ne cadamus in tentationem

CONCLUSION

As usual, Jorge Bergoglio is a sentimental old fool full of excrementum fetens

Divortium

Amici, Americanae et Compatriotae,

INTRODUCTION

There has been much discussion about the heretical teaching of Pope Francis in paragraph 305 and footnote 351 within Amoris Laetitia that divorce and remarried people may receive Holy Communion. Such an interpretation is given in the Buenos Aires bishops’ guidelines on Amoris Laetitia: full text. Pope Francis has order that those guidelines be added to the Acta Apostolicae Sedis as part of his official magisterium. Thus, the matter of this issue escalates to the point of schism - deciding whether we follow Pope Francis or we follow the plain words of Christ at the beginning of Matthew chapter 19: what God has joined together, let no man cast asunder. Divorce obviously violates that command and breaks the marriage vow. Those who re-marry another afterwards commit adultery (a violation of Exodus chapter 20:14 and Deuteronomy 5:18 within the Ten Commandments) which is a mortal sin (a sin which leads to death – 1st John 5:16). Concerning the problem of partaking of the Holy Eucharist (Holy Communion) while in a state of unrepentant mortal sin (e.g., a state of adultery), 1st Corinthians 11:27-32 states:

“Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we should not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned along with the world.”

Therefore, a divorced person who remarries another and then presents himself (or herself) for Holy Communion invokes on himself (or herself) the judgement which St. Paul describes at the end of chapter 11 within his first letter to the Church at Corinth.

That all said, there are TWO and ONLY TWO exceptions to this. These are described below.

DIVORCE FOR ILLICIT SEXUAL INTERCOURSE

Matthew 19:3-9 states:

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one’? So they are no longer two but one. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” He said to them, “For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman, commits adultery.”

The exception that Jesus gives for allowing divorce is in verse 9:

“….whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery….”

The Greek states:

“…ος αν απολυση την γυναικα αυτου ει μη επι πορνεια και γαμηση αλλην μοιχαται…”

The Latin states:

“….quicumque dimiserit uxorem suam nisi ob fornicationem et aliam duxerit moechatur…..”

The English word translated as “unchastity in the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE) is πορνεια in Greek and fornicationem in Latin. Πορνεια means:

1. illicit sexual intercourse
a. adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse with animals etc.
b. sexual intercourse with close relatives; Lev. 18
c. sexual intercourse with a divorced man or woman; Mk. 10:11,12
2. metaph. the worship of idols, of the defilement of idolatry, as incurred by eating the sacrifices offered to idols

Fornicatio (the nominative case of the accusative used in the Scripture verse) means:

Fornication, (unmarried) sex; prostitution/whoredom

Thus, from the plain words of Christ, divorce for the reason of illicit sexual intercourse (of any kind) is permissible.

DIVORCE FOR DESIRE OF UNBELIEVING SPOUSE TO DEPART

1st Corinthians 7:10- 15 states:

“To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband)—and that the husband should not divorce his wife. To the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us to peace.”

Note the phrase in verse 15:

“But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound.”

Therefore, divorce in the case of the desire of the unbelieving spouse to depart is permissible and the believing spouse is NOT bound.

CONCLUSION

Normally, in order to rightly present themselves to Holy Communion a man and a woman in a second marriage must live as brother and sister as Pope John Paul II describes in section 84 of Familiaris Consortio:

“However, the Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried. They are unable to be admitted thereto from the fact that their state and condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist. Besides this, there is another special pastoral reason: if these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage.”

“Reconciliation in the sacrament of Penance which would open the way to the Eucharist, can only be granted to those who, repenting of having broken the sign of the Covenant and of fidelity to Christ, are sincerely ready to undertake a way of life that is no longer in contradiction to the indissolubility of marriage. This means, in practice, that when, for serious reasons, such as for example the children's upbringing, a man and a woman cannot satisfy the obligation to separate, they ‘take on themselves the duty to live in complete continence, that is, by abstinence from the acts proper to married couples.’”

Nevertheless, based on the plain language of Sacred Scripture, one is NOT bound to marriage in two and only two cases:

1. One spouse has engaged in illicit sexual intercourse, OR
2. One spouse, being an unbeliever, desires to separate.

Monitus!

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

A warning for our post-modern, neo-pagan time.

Verse 10 in chapter 5 from the book of the prophet Ezekiel [who (as most of us may recall) had been sent into exile by the river Chebar in the land of the Chaldeans] states:

“Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.”

Holy Maccabees

That book was written sometime in the early 6th century BC after the deportation of Judah’s King Jehoiachin to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar .

Now why did this deportation from the Promised Land occur? The very next verse, number 11, tells us why:

"Wherefore, as I live, says the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity."

God allowed the Babylonians to devastate the land of Judah because God’s Chosen People had rebelled against the Most High. In other words, the Chosen People had rejected God and God, ever being the consummate Gentleman, respected their wishes and let them reap the consequences of their choice. Those consequences were subjugation under the Babylonian yoke, and starvation to the point where those left in Judah resorted to cannibalism.

Why was I reminded of this on the day after Thanksgiving? Because of the Scripture readings in the liturgy for November 24, 2017.

The Old Testament reading from 1st Maccabees 4:36-59 recalls the re-dedication of the Jewish Temple after Judas Maccabees and his comrades retook it from the pagan Seleucids. This was the establishment of the Feast of the Dedication which Christ Himself celebrated in John 10:22-23.

You see, after the Babylonian Exile, King Cyrus of Persia had released the deported Jews to return to the Promised Land. Under Nehemiah and Ezra they repaired much of the Temple which Solomon had built and Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed. Then Alexander the Great came along (as Daniel describes in chapters 7 through 11 of his book of prophecy) and swept away the Persian Empire (which had succeeded Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian Empire as described in Daniel chapter 5). Alexander’s Empire broke up into four pieces which Daniel describes as the four beats (Daniel chapter 7): Ptolemaic (Egypt), Seleucid (Syria), Pergamon (Asia Minor) and Macedon. The Seleucid kings terrorized the returned Jewish exiles in the 2nd century BC. Antiochus IV Epiphanes (their mad king) even went so far as to sacrifice to Zeus Olympus a swine in the Holy of Holies within the Jewish Temple that Nehemiah and Ezra had restored a few hundred years previously (Christ recalls this in Matthew 24:15). God raised up a man named Mattathias and his seven sons (called the Sons of Hammer or the Maccabees) to oppose the pagan Seleucids and defend the freedom of the Jewish people to worship in peace (1st Maccabees chapter 2). All this is recorded in the books of 1st and 2nd Maccabees. When Judas Maccabees and his soldiers recaptured Jerusalem, they rededicated the Holy of Holies and instituted what is now called Hanukah (1st Maccabees 4:36-59 and 2nd Maccabees 10:1-9)

The point in all this is what the children of Israel had to endure as a result of their apostasy. And sadly it didn’t end there. Again by the time of Christ they had forgotten their roots, being divided into Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots and Herodians. Today’s Gospel reading in Luke 19:45-48 recalls the time when Jesus entered the Temple and drove out the money changers with whips, declaring:

“My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.”

This reading immediately succeeds the prophecy in Luke 19:41-44 where Jesus declares:

“If this day you only knew what makes for peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days are coming upon you when your enemies will raise a palisade against you; they will encircle you and hem you in on all sides. They will smash you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

This prophecy was fulfilled in AD 70 when Roman General Titus began the Great Siege of Jerusalem. Once again, just as occurred in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and in the time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the city was sacked and the Temple destroyed. Why? Because the Chosen People had rejected their Messiah: apostasy again.

We all are horrified when Sacred Scripture says things like this: “Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you, and sons shall eat their fathers…” But are we not doing this today with the abortion of 55+ million unborn babies since the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v Wade in 1973? Are we not doing this by harvesting their corpses for stem cells and internal organs to be sold on the open market? Is this not cannibalism? And do we expect God’s mercy on these babies to be any different than what it was in 570 BC when Ezekiel wrote his deadly pronouncement?

This may seem like a depressing message for the Thanksgiving weekend which has now passed us. But we must recall that just as God is all love and all merciful, He is also all holy and all just. We as the United States of America must return to our Judeo-Christian roots, repent and offer thanksgiving up to the Father for the sacrifice which His Son made for us on the Cross. That is the ultimate Thanksgiving (the Eucharistia) which sadly the Chosen People did not learn.

Sacra Eucharistia

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

First, I ask my readers to NOT get offended at this but to read with an open mind. I take very seriously the plain words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If I believe what Moses wrote when he said that God created man from the dust of the ground (i.e., man isn’t evolved from apes), then why would I reject the plain words of Christ when He says, “This is My Body….this is My Blood…?” Who is greater – Moses or Christ? Indeed, regarding this, I recently read an excellent article by Apologist Dave Armstrong at the National Catholic Register entitled:

“Transubstantiation, John 6, Faith and Rebellion.”

Yes, as a former Pentecostal I understand Evangelical Protestant teaching regarding Holy Communion, and I have nothing but love and respect for my Evangelical Protestant brothers and sisters, and yes, they are our baptized brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. Would that we all had their zeal! However, with that same love and respect for everyone, Christ is very clear about this topic in John 6:53-55:

“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you; he who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.”

Furthermore, Christ goes on to explain John 6:63:

“It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.”

In other words, the flesh we eat at Holy Communion and the blood we drink is NOT from a dead cadaver, but from the living Christ. The flesh and blood is animated by the Holy Spirit just as God breathed into Adam the breath (or spirit) of life in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:7).

Do we partake in memory of His sacrifice on the Cross – “Do this in memory of Me (Luke 22:19)?” Yes! In fact, it is as though at Holy Mass a hole is ripped into the fabric of space-time and we enter into that one eternal event that happened 2000 years ago on Calvary. That single one-time event is made present to us again here and now – it is re-presented, NOT represented (and therein lays the difference). NOTHING that has happened in the Universe is erased – past, present or future – unless and until God decides to erase it at the Last Day when the New Heavens and New Earth are created (Isaiah 66:22, 2nd Peter 3:13). Therefore, the Holy Eucharist is NOT a mere symbol. In fact, Matthew 26:26-28 specifically states:

“Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, ‘Take, eat; this is My body.’ And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink of it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins….’”

And if the Eucharist were just a symbol, then why does St. Paul say the following in 1st Corinthians 11:27-30?

“Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.”

If the Eucharist – Holy Communion – were just a symbol, then why does St. Paul say that eating and drinking unworthily can cause sickness and death? If Holy Communion is just a cracker and a drop of grape juice (fermented or otherwise), then it would have NO power to visit catastrophe on the person who eats and drinks while in a state of mortal sin (“There is a sin leading unto death….” – 1st John 5:16). Yet that is exactly what St. Paul writes happens. For this reason Christ asked His disciples in John 6:61 after the Bread of Life Discourse:

“Do you take offense at this?”

Thus, I believe in the Real Presence of Christ – Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity – at the Holy Eucharist because that’s what the Bible says, and that’s what the early Church Fathers who succeeded the Apostles in the 1st three centuries after Christ said. In fact, St. Ignatius who sat at the feet of St. John on the Isle of Patmos as he wrote the Book of Revelation to the Seven Churches in Asia Minor writes in his "Letter to the Smyrnaeans [the same church that was one of the seven to which St. John wrote Revelation]", paragraph 6. circa AD 80-110:

"They abstain from the Eucharist…..because they do not admit that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in His graciousness, raised from the dead."

And St. Justin Martyr writes in his "First Apology", Ch. 66, inter AD 148-155:

“This food we call the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake except one who believes that the things we teach are true, and has received the washing for forgiveness of sins and for rebirth, and who lives as Christ handed down to us. For we do not receive these things as common bread or common drink; but as Jesus Christ our Savior being incarnate by God's Word took flesh and blood for our salvation, so also we have been taught that the food consecrated by the Word of prayer which comes from him, from which our flesh and blood are nourished by transformation, is the flesh and blood of that incarnate Jesus.”

These things were all written immediately after the death of the last Apostle. This is what the New Testament Church believed, this is what 1.1 billion Catholics and 300 million Orthodox believe today, and it is what we must believe also. I write that while intending NO offense against anyone. This is simply plain Scripture and the real history of what happened.