I am a confirmed Lutheran after two years of biblical study and approval by a court of church elders. Transubstantiation is a belief of Lutherans and, to my knowledge, of every common Christian sect. They call the bread and wine the body and blood of the Christ, while refusing to call it transubstantiation. "Lutherans explicitly reject transubstantiation believing that the bread and wine remain fully bread and fully wine while also being truly the body and blood of Jesus Christ." In other words, not changed, but somehow both bread and the flesh of Christ, and both wine and the blood of Christ. No wonder religion makes people like you crazy, and no wonder I came at an early age to suspect all religious dogma. So in summary, please keep your nitpicking to yourself. In communion, we consume the body and blood of the Christ.

This thread follows a post by Charles Dalton pointing out that whites are both actual and symbolic cannibals, and he's right.